Biological Control: Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management provides a historical summary of organisms and main strategies used in biological control, as well as the key challenges confronting biological control in the 21st century.
Biological control has been implemented for millennia, initially practised by growers moving beneficial species from one local area to another. Today, biological control has evolved into a formal science that provides ecosystem services to protect the environment and the resources used by humanity. With contributions from dedicated scientists and practitioners from around the world, this comprehensive book highlights important successes, failures and challenges in biological control efforts. It advocates that biological control must be viewed as a global endeavour and provides suggestions to move practices forward in a changing world.
Biological Control is an invaluable resource for conservation specialists, pest management practitioners and those who research invasive species, as well as students studying pest management science.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
History of biological control
1 – The diversity of biological control agents
2 – Conservation biological control
3 – Importation biological control
4 – Augmentative biological control
5 – Unintentional biological control
Biological control in the 21st century
6 – Benefits and risks of biological control
7 – Regulatory challenges for biological control
8 – Access and benefit-sharing and biological control
9 – Biological control and climate change
10 – Taxonomy and biological control
Socioeconomic impacts of biological control
11 – Public perceptions of biological control
12 – Economic impact of biological control
13 – Uptake of biological control
Biological control successes and failures
14 – Biological control successes and failures: Oceania region
15 – Biological control successes and failures: African region
16 – Biological control successes and failures: Eurasian region
17 – Biological control successes and failures: Indo-Pacific/Oriental region
18 – Biological control successes and failures: North American region
Colour plates
19 – Biological control successes and failures: Latin American region
Future prospects for biological control
20 – Integrating pest management with biological control
21 – Biological control as a conservation science
22 – An evolutionary ecology synthesis for biological control
Index
About the author
Dr Peter G Mason is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). The focus of his research is invasive alien species and importation biological control, with particular emphasis on host–range assessment and non-target impacts of parasitoids. He has served on the North American Plant Protection Organization Biological Expert Group and the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) Commission on Access and Benefit-Sharing. He is an Honorary Member of IOBC Global.
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