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200 10$aChasing the Red Queen $eThe Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons /$fby Andy Dyer
205   $a1st ed. 2014.
210  1$aWashington, DC :$cIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics :$cImprint: Island Press,$d2014.
215   $a1 online resource (241 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
327   $aIntroducing the Red Queen. The never-ending race: adaptation and environmental stress -- The evolution of farming: scaling up productivity -- Survival of the fittest: Darwin's principles -- Ignoring the Red Queen. Reductionist farming: losing ecosystem services -- A weed by any other name : monocultures and wild species -- Running faster: insecticide and herbicide resistance -- Trying to beat the Red Queen. Exercises in futility: cases of resistance -- King Cotton vs. The Red Queen -- The cornucopia of maize vs. the Red Queen -- The Red Queen trumps technology: the failures of biotech -- Playing the Red Queen. Understanding the chase to escape the cycle -- Slowing the race by slowing the attach -- Ecosystem farming: letting nature do the work -- Integrated systems and long-term stability -- Epilogue: Putting all of our eggs in a diversity of baskets.
330   $aIn the race to feed the world?s seven billion people, we are at a standstill. Over the past century, we have developed increasingly potent and sophisticated pesticides, yet in 2014, the average percentage of U.S. crops lost to agricultural pests was no less than in 1944. To use a metaphor the field of evolutionary biology borrowed from Alice in Wonderland, farmers must run ever faster to stay in the same place?i.e., produce the same yields. With Chasing the Red Queen, Andy Dyer offers the first book to apply the Red Queen Hypothesis to agriculture. Dyer examines one of the world?s most pressing problems as a biological case study. He presents key concepts, from Darwin?s principles of natural selection to genetic variation and adaptive phenotypes. Understanding the fundamentals of ecology and biology is the first step to ?playing the Red Queen,? and escaping her unwinnable race. The book?s novel frame will help students, researchers, and policy-makers alike apply that knowledge to the critical task of achieving food security.
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