Handbook of Pest Management

Ruberson, John R.

• Agricultural systems as ecosystems; soil effects on pest populations; weather influences on pest movement; landscape structure and extra-field processes - impact on management of pasts and beneficials; direct and indirect effects of plants on performance of beneficial organisms; mechanisms of plant resistance against anthropod pests; plant resistance to pathogens; approaches to plant breeding and genetic engineering; acquisition and maintenance of resistant germplasm; general overview of plant pathogenic organisms; cultural approaches to managing plant pathogens; biological control of plant pathogens; chemical approaches to managing plant pathogens; anthropods as pests of plants - an overview; cultural approaches to managing anthropod pests; biological control of anthropod pests; chemical approaches to managing anthropod pests; genetic approaches to managing anthropod pests; behaviour-modifying chemicals in management of anthropod pests; general overview of weeds in crop systems; cultural approaches to weed management; biological approaches to weed management; chemical approaches to weed management; overview and management of vertebrate pests; impact of tillage systems on pest management; effects of agrichemicals on nontarget populations; reducing agricultural pesticide losses to surface and groundwater resources; decision thresholds in pest management; economics of pest management; professional training and technology transfer.