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List of contents
Preface -- Biological Control in Cool Temperate Regions -- Agent Selection -- Biological Control in Native and Introduced Habitats: Lessons Learned from the Sap-Feeding Guilds on Hemlock and Pine -- Ecological Approaches for Biological Control of the Aquatic Weed Eurasian Watermilfoil: Resource and Interference Competition, Exotic and Endemic Herbivores and Pathogens -- Integrating Biological Control in IPM Systems -- Foliar Pathogens in Weed Biocontrol: Ecological and Regulatory Constraints -- Development and Implementation -- Antibiosis and Beyond: Genetic Diversity, Microbial Communities, and Biological Control -- Microbial Competition and Plant Disease Biocontrol -- Ecology of Rearing: Quality, Regulation, and Mass Rearing -- Selection Pressures and the Coevolution of Host-Pathogen Systems -- Deleterious Rhizobacteria and Weed Biocontrol -- Spring-Seeded Smother Plants for Weed Control in Corn and Other Annual Crops -- Issues in the Use of Microsporidia for Biological Control of European Corn Borer -- Monitoring and Impact of Weed Biological Control Agents -- Biological Control of Plant Disease Using Antagonistic Streptomyces -- Host Searching by Trichogramma and Its Implications for Quality Control and Release Techniques -- Gliocladium and Biological Control of Damping-Off Complex -- Management in Situ -- Parasitoid Foraging from a Multitrophic Perspective: Significance for Biological Control -- Altering Community Balance: Organic Amendments, Selection Pressures, and Biocontrol -- Interference of Fungicides with Entomopathogens: Effects on Entomophthoran Pathogens of Green Peach Aphid
Summary
Recent interest in nonchemical methods of pest control has brought renewed attention to the biological control of plant pests in the fields of entomology, plant pathology, and weed science. Ecological Interactions and Biological Control addresses issues of theory and practice common to all three fields. Focusing on systems rather than on individual problems, the contributors are able to look at the larger issues of how ecological theory has aided biological control and vice versa. Most important, they suggest ways to integrate theory and practice more closely in order to contribute to the future development of biological control.
