Biodiversity and Insect Pests: Key Issues for Sustainable Management

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at the local and landscape scales to check pest build-up.

• | Author: Geoff M. Gurr, William E. Snyder, Stephen D. Wratten
• | Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2012
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780470656860
• | ISBN-10: 0470656867