Biological Control: A Global Endeavour

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Biological Control: Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management provides a historical summary of organisms and main strategies used in biological control, as well as the key challenges confronting biological control in the 21st century.

Biological control has been implemented for millennia, initially practised by growers moving beneficial species from one local area to another. Today, biological control has evolved into a formal science that provides ecosystem services to protect the environment and the resources used by humanity. With contributions from dedicated scientists and practitioners from around the world, this comprehensive book highlights important successes, failures and challenges in biological control efforts. It advocates that biological control must be viewed as a global endeavour and provides suggestions to move practices forward in a changing world.

Biological Control is an invaluable resource for conservation specialists, pest management practitioners and those who research invasive species, as well as students studying pest management science.

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"An extremely professionally written and edited body of work which is obviously the product of countless hours of input from a wide range of contributors, which reads like a whos who of biological control." -- Royce H Holtkamp * General & Applied Entomology Vol 50 *
"If you are a student, or even a biocontrol practitioner, this would be an essential book to have on the shelf. This would be your go-to book. It covers everything the theory and the practice." -- Bernie Franzmann * Metamorphosis Australia Issue 102 *

Author Bio

Dr Peter G Mason is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). The focus of his research is invasive alien species and importation biological control, with particular emphasis on hostrange assessment and nontarget impacts of parasitoids. He has served on the North American Plant Protection Organization Biological Expert Group and the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) Commission on Access and Benefit-Sharing. He is an Honorary Member of IOBC Global.