Handbook of Pest Management (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment, V. 73.)

"Provides a detailed summary of pest management principles and techniques, outlining a broad selection of critical issues regarding current practice and future technology in this area. Discusses the role of soils, weather, and surrounding habitats in regulating pest occurrence and severity." This versatile reference provides a detailed summary of pest management principles and techniques, outlining a broad selection of critical issues regarding current practice and future technology in this area. Addressing the deterrence of pests from an ecological perspective, the Handbook of Pest Management reviews chemical, biological, and cultural pest management techniques...analyzes water quality, pest thresholds, economic issues, and technology transfer from laboratory to farm...details the biology and ecology of every major group of plant pests...explores the ability of plants to support beneficial organisms and resist pests...highlights the plant's importance for biological control agents...investigates breeding methods as well as the manipulation and improvement of plant defenses...and more. With over 2300 references, tables, photographs, and drawings, the Handbook of Pest Management is an ideal reference for entomologists; pest management consultants; plant pathologists and physiologists; horticulturalists; weed, crop, plant, animal, agricultural, soil, and environmental scientists; fertilizer and pest management specialists; agronomists; botanists; mycologists; molecular biologists; microbiologists; organic chemists and biochemists; crop ecologists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines. "This versatile reference provides a detailed summary of pest management principles and techniques, outlining a broad selection of critical issues regarding current practice and future technology in this area." "With over 2300 references, tables, photographs, and drawings, the Handbook of Pest Management is an ideal reference for entomologists; pest management consultants; plant pathologists and physiologists; horticulturalists; weed, crop, plant, animal, agricultural, soil, and environmental scientists; fertilizer and pest management specialists; agronomists; botanists; mycologists; molecular biologists; microbiologists; organic chemists and biochemists; crop ecologists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines."--Jacket Sir Arthur Tansley [87] provided the first formal definition of an ecosystem, although the concept's roots emerged many years earlier [55].