Biodiversity and Insect Pests
Key Issues for Sustainable Management
Published on 23. March 2012
360 pages
978-1-118-23184-5 (ISBN)
Description
Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. Itprovides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge rangeof predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and communityecology-level effects operating at the local and landscape scalesto check pest build-up. This book brings together world leaders intheoretical, methodological and applied aspects to provide acomprehensive treatment of this fast-moving field.
Chapter authors from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and theAmericas ensure a truly international scope. Topics range fromscientific principles, innovative research methods, ecologicaleconomics and effective communication to farmers, as well as casestudies of successful use of biodiversity-based pest managementsome of which extend over millions of hectares or are enshrined asgovernment policy.
Written to be accessible to advanced undergraduates whilst alsostimulating the seasoned researcher, this work will help unlock thepower of biodiversity to deliver sustainable insect pestmanagement.
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"Suitable as a textbook for advanced students, the volumeperhaps has its greatest value as an enduring source of informationand ideas to practitioners and conservationists." (TheQuarterly Review of Biology, 1 June 2014) "Biodiversity and Insect Pestsis well illustrated, withseveral colour plates. It has an excellent index and a companionwebsite, http://www.wiley.com/go/gurr/biodiversity, withdownloadable figures and tables. Although relativelyexpensive, and at times very technical, it is recommended as amust-read book for the agricultural community, researchers and thegeneral public." (Austral Ecology, 1 October2013)More details
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Geoff Gurr is Professor of Applied Ecology at Charles SturtUniversity in Australia. Over the last two decades he has worked onthe ecology and management of pests in systems as diverse aspastures and forests. Much of his recent work has been withcollaborators throughout Asia where insecticide resistance insucking pests of rice has driven the development and adoption ofbiodiversity-based management strategies.
Steve Wratten is Professor of Ecology at LincolnUniversity, New Zealand and Visiting Professor at Charles SturtUniversity in Australia. His main research concerns evaluating andenhancing "nature's services" (ecosystem services). Using resourceeconomics techniques, the existing value of these services (suchthings as biological control of pests) is estimated and thenhabitat manipulation ("ecological engineering") is used to enhancethese services on farmland to provide profit and real evidence ofsustainability. This work is done across several agriculturalsectors but especially in vineyards.
William Snyder is Professor of Entomology at WashingtonState University, USA. With the help of a small army of studentsand postdocs, he explores the relationship between biodiversity andbiocontrol. Recent work focuses on the relative importance of thetwo components of biodiversity, species number (richness) andspecies balance (evenness), and practical ways for farmers toharness biodiversity's many benefits.
Donna Read is a Research Assistant at Charles SturtUniversity, Australia with interests in rural sociology,agricultural economics and horticulture.
Content
Preface, vii
Foreword, ix
Contributors, x
INTRODUCTION, 1
1 Biodiversity and insect pests, 3
Geoff M. Gurr, Steve D. Wratten and William E. Snyder
FUNDAMENTALS, 21
2 The ecology of biodiversity-biocontrol relationships,23
William E. Snyder and Jason M. Tylianakis
3 The role of generalist predators in terrestrial food webs:lessons for agricultural pest management, 41
K.D. Welch, R.S. Pfannenstiel and J.D. Harwood
4 Ecological economics of biodiversity use for pest management,57
Mark Gillespie and Steve D. Wratten
5 Soil fertility, biodiversity and pest management, 72
Miguel A. Altieri, Luigi Ponti and Clara I. Nicholls
6 Plant biodiversity as a resource for natural products forinsect pest management, 85
Opender Koul
7 The ecology and utility of local and landscape scale effectsin pest management, 106
Sagrario Gámez-Virués, Mattias Jonsson and BarbaraEkbom
METHODS, 121
8 Scale effects in biodiversity and biological control: methodsand statistical analysis, 123
Christoph Scherber, Blas Lavandero, Katrin M. Meyer, DavidPerovic, Ute Visser, Kerstin Wiegand and Teja Tscharntke
9 Pick and mix: selecting flowering plants to meet therequirements of target biological control insects, 139
Felix L. Wäckers and Paul C.J. van Rijn
10 The molecular revolution: using polymerase chain reactionbased methods to explore the role of predators in terrestrial foodwebs, 166
William O.C. Symondson
11 Employing chemical ecology to understand and exploitbiodiversity for pest management, 185
David G. James, Sofia Orre-Gordon, Olivia L. Reynolds (néeKvedaras) and Marja Simpson
APPLICATION, 197
12 Using decision theory and sociological tools to facilitateadoption of biodiversity-based pest management strategies,199
M.M. Escalada and K.L. Heong
13 Ecological engineering strategies to manage insect pests inrice, 214
Geoff M. Gurr, K.L. Heong, J.A. Cheng and J. Catindig
14 China's 'Green Plant Protection' initiative: coordinatedpromotion of biodiversity-related technologies, 230
Lu Zhongxian, Yang Yajun, Yang Puyun and Zhao Zhonghua
15 Diversity and defence: plant-herbivore interactions atmultiple scales and trophic levels, 241
Finbarr G. Horgan
16 'Push-pull' revisited: the process of successfuldeployment of a chemical ecology based pest management tool,259
Zeyaur R. Khan, Charles A.O. Midega, Jimmy Pittchar, Toby J.A.Bruce and John A. Pickett
17 Using native plant species to diversify agriculture,276
Douglas A. Landis, Mary M. Gardiner and Jean Tompkins
18 Using biodiversity for pest suppression in urban landscapes,293
Paula M. Shrewsbury and Simon R. Leather
19 Cover crops and related methods for enhancing agriculturalbiodiversity and conservation biocontrol: successful case studies,309
P.G. Tillman, H.A. Smith and J.M. Holland
SYNTHESIS, 329
20 Conclusion: biodiversity as an asset rather than a burden,331
Geoff M. Gurr, William E. Snyder, Steve D. Wratten and DonnaM.Y. Read
Index, 340
Colour plates fall between pages 84 and 8
