Potential Invasive Pests of Agricultural Crops - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Potential Invasive Pests of Agricultural Crops write by Jorge E. Peña. This book was released on 2013. Potential Invasive Pests of Agricultural Crops available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Invasive arthropods cause significant damage in agricultural crops and natural environments across the globe. Potentially threatened regions need to be prepared to prevent new pests from becoming established. Therefore, information on pest identity, host range, geographical distribution, biology, tools for detection and identification are all essential to researchers and regulatory personnel. This book focuses on the most recent invasive pests of agricultural crops in temperate subtropical and tropical areas and on potential invaders, discussing their spread, biology and control.
Invasive Arthropods in Agriculture
Invasive Arthropods in Agriculture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invasive Arthropods in Agriculture write by Guy J. Hallman. This book was released on 2002. Invasive Arthropods in Agriculture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book concentrates on invasive arthropods damaging to agriculture, although relevant examples and discussions with other organisms and situations are included. Some socio-political facets are considered in overviews of plant health protection programs, including the origins of regulatory plant health in the United States, environmental and economic costs of alien arthropods, and international standards and avenues for sharing information about pests. Risk assessment is a vital scientific component of efforts to thwart the negative effects of invasive species, and some chapters deal with pathways of introduction, predicting the invasive potential of arthropods, and forecasting the likely geographic distribution of exotic insects. New eradication, control and quarantine treatment methods have been developed for use in programs against invasive species, and these are addressed in a series of chapters. Biological control has been at the nexus of the invasive species debate because the benefits sought after through the deliberate introduction of beneficial organisms may have unintended and undesirable negative effects. Accordingly, chapters are devoted to these topics.
Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests
Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2002-06-05. Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nonindigenous plants and plant pests that find their way to the United States and become invasive can often cause problems. They cost more than $100 billion per year in crop and timber losses plus the expense of herbicides and pesticides. And this figure does not include the costs of invasions in less intensively managed ecosystems such as wetlands. Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests examines this growing problem and offers recommendations for enhancing the science base in this field, improving our detection of potential invaders, and refining our ability to predict their impact. The book analyzes the factors that shape an invader's progress through four stages: arriving through one of many possible ports of entry, reaching a threshold of survival, thriving through proliferation and geographic spread, and ultimate impact on the organism's new environment. The book also reviews approaches to predicting whether a species will become an invader as well as the more complex challenge of predicting and measuring its impact on the environment, a process involving value judgments and risk assessment. This detailed analysis will be of interest to policymakers, plant scientists, agricultural producers, environmentalists, and public agencies concerned with invasive plant and plant pest species.
Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Arthropod-Plant Interactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arthropod-Plant Interactions write by Guy Smagghe. This book was released on 2012-04-02. Arthropod-Plant Interactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book consists of multiple chapters by leading experts on the different aspects in the unique relationship between arthropods and plants, the underlying mechanisms, realized successes and failures of interactions and application for IPM, and future lines of research and perspectives. Interesting is the availability of the current genomes of different insects, mites and nematodes and different important plants and agricultural crops to bring better insights in the cross talk mechanisms and interacting players. This book will be the first one that integrates all this fascinating and newest (from the last 5 years) information from different leading research laboratories in the world and with perspectives from academia, government and industry.
Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States
Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States write by Therese M. Poland. This book was released on 2021-02-01. Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the ecology, impacts, and practical tools for management of invasive species. It covers species of all taxonomic groups from insects and pathogens, to plants, vertebrates, and aquatic organisms that impact a diversity of habitats in forests, rangelands and grasslands of the United States. It is well-illustrated, provides summaries of the most important invasive species and issues impacting all regions of the country, and includes a comprehensive primary reference list for each topic. This scientific synthesis provides the cultural, economic, scientific and social context for addressing environmental challenges posed by invasive species and will be a valuable resource for scholars, policy makers, natural resource managers and practitioners.
