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Pest and disease management continues to challenge the agricultural community. The rise in new pest and crop problems juxtaposed with public concern over pesticide use and more stringent environmental regulations creates the need for today's agricultural producers to stay current with new technologies for producing quality crops profitably. Integrated Pest Management: An Ecological Perspective presents an overview of alternative measures to traditional pest management practices, utilizing biological control and biotechnology. The removal of some highly effective broad-spectrum chemicals, caused by concerns over environmental health and public safety, has resulted in the development of alternative, reduced risk crop protection products. These products, less toxic to the environment and easily integrated into biological control systems, target specific life stages or pest species. Predation - recognized as a suitable, long term strategy - effectively suppresses pests in biotechnological control systems.
Integrated Pest Management: An Ecological Perspective covers these topics and more. It explores the current ecological approaches in alternative solutions such as: biological control agents, parasites and predators, pathogenic microorganisms, pheromones and natural products, as well as ecological approaches for management of invasive pests, rats, suppression of weeds, safety of pollinators, role of taxonomy and remote sensing in IPM and future projections of IPM. This book is a useful resource to entomologists, agronomists, horticulturists, and environmental scientists.
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SECTION 1: ECOLOGY OF PEST MANAGEMENT
1. Ecology of Pest Management
2. Host plant resistance in pest management
3. Impact of climate change on pests and pest management: Implications for crop production and food security
4. Application of remote sensing in integrated pest management
5. Weather-based pest forecasting for efficient crop protection
6. Forecasting of Colorado potato beetle development by means of computer aided system SIMLEP Decision Support System
SECTION 2: CHEMICAL CONTROL OF CROP PESTS
7. Role of semiochemicals in integrated pest management
8. Pesticides appled for the control of invasive species in the United States
9. Potential and utilization of natural products in pest control
SECTION 3: BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CROP PESTS
10. Biological control of insect pests in crops
11. Use of pheromones in insect pest management
12. Role of entomopathogenic fungi in IPM
13. Entomopathogenic nematodes for insect pest control
14. Entomopathogenic viruses and bacteria for insect pest control
15. Biological Control of Weeds by Plant Pathogens Using the Bioherbicide Approach
16. Biological control of invasive insect pests
17. Use of spiders as natural enemies to control insect pests
18. Cultural practices and physical methods for the management of insect pests
SECTION 4: BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF CROP PESTS
19. Biotechnological approaches for insect pest management
20. Biotechnological approaches for non-insect pest management
21. Genetically modified crops in IPM: agricultural, ecological, and evolutionary implications
22. Breeding of crops for resistance against insect pests and diseases
SECTION 5: MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES RELATED TO CROP PEST MANAGEMENT
23. Integrated management of rodent pests
24. Ecofriendly management of phytophagous mites
25. Risk to biodiversity by exotic species introduced for biological control
26. The critical role of taxonomy in IPM-Challenges and opportunities
27. IPM Extension: A Global Overview
28. Future of integrated pest management in the 21st century, whither or wither-A critical analysis
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Dharam Abrol serves as Professor and Head of the Division of Entomology at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu India. He has been engaging in teaching and research in entomology for over 35 years. Dr. Abrol has vast experience and expertise on honeybee management, pollination biology, bee ecology, toxicology, economic entomology and pest management. He has chaired and presented at national and international symposia/conferences and serves as a referee for national and international journals. He has written or edited 11 books and published over 200 original research papers, 10 reviews, 10 book chapters and over 64 popular articles on honeybee diseases pollination biology, toxicology and integrated pest management
