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
Preface
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
The dependence of integrated pest management (IPM) on sound ecological theory has been frequently reaffirmed by both IPM practitioners and theoreticians. Insect pests, diseases, and weeds still present us with enormous challenges in all global cropping systems, and we continue to be engaged in a struggle to understand the underlying drivers of their epidemiology and the most effective management strategies. Sustainable IPM systems in the future are going to depend on significant further advances in all the sciences and technologies that contribute to insect pest, disease, and weed suppression. Although IPM systems are deeply ecological in nature, no-one can argue that we have yet defined or formalized the ways in which ecological theory can be developed and exploited to maximize their effectiveness. The application of ecological ideas in the intensely practical realm of agriculture is a slow and difficult process. In this regard the book by G. H. Walter (2003) may serve as a preamble to this volume; although focused on insects, Walter's comments are equally applicable to plant pathogens and diseases. In it Walter states that “Insect ecology research for IPM purposes is represented by a rather grey area; the linkage between theory and practice is still not explicit.” We think that some of the chapters in the present book offer insights arguing that ecological theory has already provided the foundation for some level of IPM. Unquestionably, however, much more research must be done to fully integrate ecological theory into IPM practice.
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- Perspectives in Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management , pp. xv - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007