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  title info:
    title: Biodiversity and insect pests
    sub title: key issues for sustainable management
  name:
    name part: Gurr, Geoff.
  name:
    name part: Read, Donna M. Y.
  name:
    name part: Snyder, William E.
  name:
    name part: Wratten, Stephen D.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) : illustrations
  table of contents: Employing chemical ecology to understand and exploit biodiversity for pest management / David G. James, Sofia Orre-Gordon, Olivia L. Reynolds (nee Kvedaras), Marja Simpson -- Application -- Using decision theory and sociological tools to facilitate adoption of biodiversity-based pest management strategies / M.M. Escalada, K.L. Heong -- Ecological engineering strategies to manage insect pests in rice Geoff M. Gurr, K.L. Heong J.A. Cheng, J. Catindig -- China's "Green Plant Protection" initiative : coordinated promotion of biodiversity-related technologies / Lu Zhongxian, Yang Yajun, Yang Puyun, Zhao Zhonghua -- Diversity and defence : plant-herbivore interactions at multiple scales and trophic levels / Finbarr G. Horgan -- "Push-pull" revisited : the process of successful deployment of a chemical ecology based pest management tool / Zeyaur R. Khan, Charles A.O. Midega, Jimmy Pittchar, Toby J.A. Bruce, John A. Pickett -- Using native plant species to diversify agriculture / Douglas A. Landis, Mary M. Gardiner, Jean Tompkins -- Using biodiversity for pest suppression in urban landscapes / Paula M. Shrewsbury, Simon R. Leather -- Cover crops and related methods for enhancing agricultural biodiversity and conservation biocontrol : successful case studies / P.G. Tillman, H.A. Smith, J.M. Holland -- Synthesis -- Conclusion: Biodiversity as an asset rather than a burden / Geoff M. Gurr, William E. Snyder, Steve D. Wratten, Donna M.Y. Read.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Biodiversity and insect pests / Geoff M. Gurr, Steve D. Wratten, William E. Snyder -- Fundamentals -- The ecology of biodiversity-biocontrol relationships / William E. Snyder, Jason M. Tylianakis -- The role of generalist predators in terrestrial food webs : lessons for agricultural pest management / K.D. Welch, R.S. Pfannenstiel, J.D. Harwood -- Ecological economics of biodiversity use for pest management / Mark Gillespie, Steve D. Wratten -- Soil fertility, biodiversity and pest management / Miguel A. Altieri, Luigi Ponti, Clara I. Nicholls -- Plant biodiversity as a resource for natural products for insect pest management / Opender Koul -- The ecology and utility of local and landscape scale effects in pest management / Sagrario Gámez-Virués, Mattias Jonsson, Barbara Ekbom -- Methods -- Scale effects in biodiversity and biological control : methods and statistical analysis / Christoph Scherber, Blas Lavandero, Katrin M. Meyer, David Perovic, Ute Visser, Kerstin Wiegand, Teja Tscharntke -- Pick and mix : selecting flowering plants to meet the requirements of target biological control insects / Felix L. Wäckers, Paul C.J. van Rijn -- The molecular revolution: using polymerase chain reaction methods to explore the role of predators in terrestrial food webs / William O.C. Symondson --
  note: edited by Geoff M. Gurr, Steve D. Wratten, William E. Snyder ; with Donna M.Y. Read.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural pests
    topic: Control
  subject:
    topic: Agrobiodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Insect pests
    topic: Control
  subject:
    topic: Sustainability
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable agriculture
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Pest Control
  classification: SB950 .B47 2012eb
  classification: 363.7/8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Biodiversity and pests
    origin info:
      publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012
    identifier: (DLC) 2011046054
    identifier: (OCoLC)767255376
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      title: Wiley Online Library
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  identifier: 9781118231838 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781118231845 (electronic bk.)
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 120409
    record change date: 20210728124907.0
    record identifier: in00002770332