Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Ecology, sustainable development, and IPM: the human factor
- 2 From simple IPM to the management of agroecosystems
- 3 Populations, metapopulations: elementary units of IPM systems
- 4 Arthropod pest behavior and IPM
- 5 Using pheromones to disrupt mating of moth pests
- 6 Nutritional ecology of plant feeding arthropods and IPM
- 7 Conservation, biodiversity, and integrated pest management
- 8 Ecological risks of biological control agents: impacts on IPM
- 9 Ecology of natural enemies and genetically engineered host plants
- 10 Modeling the dynamics of tritrophic population interactions
- 11 Weed ecology, habitat management, and IPM
- 12 The ecology of vertebrate pests and integrated pest management (IPM)
- 13 Ecosystems: concepts, analyses, and practical implications in IPM
- 14 Agroecology: contributions towards a renewed ecological foundation for pest management
- 15 Applications of molecular ecology to IPM: what impact?
- 16 Ecotoxicology: The ecology of interactions between pesticides and non-target organisms
- Index
- References
7 - Conservation, biodiversity, and integrated pest management
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Ecology, sustainable development, and IPM: the human factor
- 2 From simple IPM to the management of agroecosystems
- 3 Populations, metapopulations: elementary units of IPM systems
- 4 Arthropod pest behavior and IPM
- 5 Using pheromones to disrupt mating of moth pests
- 6 Nutritional ecology of plant feeding arthropods and IPM
- 7 Conservation, biodiversity, and integrated pest management
- 8 Ecological risks of biological control agents: impacts on IPM
- 9 Ecology of natural enemies and genetically engineered host plants
- 10 Modeling the dynamics of tritrophic population interactions
- 11 Weed ecology, habitat management, and IPM
- 12 The ecology of vertebrate pests and integrated pest management (IPM)
- 13 Ecosystems: concepts, analyses, and practical implications in IPM
- 14 Agroecology: contributions towards a renewed ecological foundation for pest management
- 15 Applications of molecular ecology to IPM: what impact?
- 16 Ecotoxicology: The ecology of interactions between pesticides and non-target organisms
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Conservation biology has been described as a “mission oriented discipline” (Soule and Wilcox, 1980), while Samways (1994) goes further, describing it as a “crisis science”, in recognition of the immediate and adverse impacts facing our biosphere. Similarly, the development of integrated pest management (IPM) over the past 50 years has been driven by “real world” pressures, in this case, the failure of unilateral pesticidal management to provide effective control of pests. A further similarity between the disciplines of conservation biology – the science of preserving biodiversity (Pullin, 2002) – and IPM is that both are ecological disciplines. Despite this common ground, however, the two broad disciplines have developed in relative isolation from each other. One reflection of this is that conservation biologists have tended to use ecological theory to a considerably greater extent than have those involved in IPM. Indeed, the growth of the discipline of conservation biology and the conceptual framework that has developed around it is one of the most prominent advances in ecology in recent years (Caughley, 1994; Dobson et al., 1997). Recognizing the theoretical maturity of conservation biology (at least compared with IPM), one aim of this chapter is to explore the “common ground” of these disciplines, with the intention of identifying research directions that may further the discipline of IPM. Associated with this objective, we aim to avoid the reductionist tendency of scientific exploration and consider the extent to which the objectives of IPM and conservation biology may be compatible in agricultural landscapes.
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- Perspectives in Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management , pp. 223 - 245Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007