Areawide pest management [[electronic resource] ] : theory and implementation / / edited by Opender Koul, Gerrit Cuperus and Norman Elliott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910446318703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Pub., c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-24443-0; 9786611244439; 1-84593-373-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (614 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KoulOpender; CuperusGerrit W; ElliottNorman
• Disciplina: 632/.9
• Soggetti: Pests - Integrated control; Pests - Control
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Preface; 1. General Introduction to Areawide Pest Management; 2. History and Ecological Basis for Areawide Pest Management; 3. Establishing Inter-agency, Multidisciplinary Areawide Pest Management Programmes; 4. Dispersal and Migration of Insects and Their Importance in Pest Management; 5. A Landscape Perspective in Managing Vegetation for Beneficial Plant-Pest-Natural Enemy Interactions: a Foundation for Areawide Pest Management; 6. Social and Economic Aspects of Areawide Pest Management; 7. Environmental Monitoring in Areawide Pest Management; 8. The Role of Databases in Areawide Pest Management9. Codling Moth Areawide Integrated Pest Management; 10. Corn Rootworm Areawide Pest Management in the Midwestern USA; 11. Grape Areawide Pest Management in Italy; 12. Stored-grain Insect Areawide Integrated Pest Management; 13. Aphid Alert: How it Came to be, What it Achieved and Why it Proved Unsustainable; 14. Areawide Suppression of Fire Ants; 15. Salt Cedar Areawide Pest Management in the Western USA; Colour ; Plates; 16. The Hawaii Fruit Fly Areawide Pest Management Programme; 17. Areawide Pest Management for Non-rice Food Crops in South-east Asia18. Areawide Rice Insect Pest Management: a Perspective of Experiences in Asia; 19. Areawide Pest Management of Cereal Aphids in Dryland Wheat Systems of the Great Plains, USA; 20. Boll Weevil Eradication: an Areawide Pest Management Effort; 21. Current Approaches to Areawide Integrated Pest Management: Obstacles and Future Directions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Pest management has long been a problem for farmers worldwide and new techniques are continually being developed to reduce the adverse effects of pest populations. With a discussion of areawide pest management, this book explores the theoretical development and implementation of techniques from a worldwide perspective.