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“jorge hendrichs”

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  • Sterile Insect Technique

    Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

    Edited by Victor A. Dyck, Jorge Hendrichs, A.S. Robinson ...
    The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from ... Read more

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  • Area-wide Integrated Pest Management

    Development and Field Application

    Edited by Jorge Hendrichs, Rui Pereira, Marc J.B. Vreysen ...
    Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat, and threatens endangered species. This book offers a more effective application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) ... Read more

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  • Scientific Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Plant Pests: A Global Challenge to Prevent and Mitigate Plant-Pest Risks in Agriculture, Forestry and Ecosystems

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Climate change represents an unprecedented challenge to the world's biosphere and to the global community. It also represents a unique challenge for plant health. Human activities and increased market globalization, coupled with rising temperatures, has led to a situation that is favourable to pest movement and establishment. This scientific review assesses the potential effects of climate change ... Read more

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  • Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

    Edited by Diana Perez-Staples, Francisco Diaz-Fleischer, Pablo Montoya, Maria Vera ...
    Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication*. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests* comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse ... Read more

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  • Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States

    A Comprehensive Science Synthesis for the United States Forest Sector

    Edited by Therese M. Poland, Toral Patel-Weynand, Deborah M. Finch, Chelcy Ford Miniat, Deborah C. Hayes, Vanessa M. Lopez ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Integrated Pest Management

    Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective

    Edited by Dharam P. Abrol ...
    Integrated Pest Management: Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective presents an overview of alternative measures to traditional pest management practices using biological control and biotechnology. The removal of some highly effective broad-spectrum chemicals, caused by concerns over environmental health and public safety, has resulted in the development of alternative, reduced risk crop ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Arsenic Pollution

    A Global Synthesis

    by Peter Ravenscroft, Hugh Brammer, Keith Richards ...
    Series Book 94 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Arsenic Pollution summarizes the most current research on the distribution and causes of arsenic pollution, its impact on health and agriculture, and solutions by way of water supply, treatment, and water resource management.Provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of arsenic pollution occurrencesIntegrates geochemistry, hydrology, agriculture, and water supply and treatment for the ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

    by Shyam Singh Yadav, Jerry L. Hatfield, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Robert J. Redden, Anthony E. Hall ...
    A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, ... Read more

    $327.99 CAD

  • A Handbook of Tropical Soil Biology

    Sampling and Characterization of Below-ground Biodiversity

    by Fatima M. S. Moreira, E. Jeroen Huising, David E. Bignell ...
    This practical handbook describes sampling and laboratory assessment methods for the biodiversity of a number of key functional groups of soil organisms, including insects, earthworms, nematodes, fungi and bacteria. The methods have been assembled and the protocols drafted by a number of scientists associated with the UNEP-GEF funded Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-Ground ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The Potato Crop

    Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind

    Edited by Hugo Campos, Oscar Ortiz ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of ... Read more

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  • Biological Control

    Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management

    Edited by Peter G. Mason ...
    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 ... Read more

    $200.99 CAD

  • Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments

    Edited by Katarzyna Negacz, Pier Vellinga, Edward Barrett-Lennard, Redouane Choukr-Allah, Theo Elzenga ...
    Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world’s attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available worldwide, freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce, and the global sea-level rise threatens food production in fertile coastal lowlands. Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments aims to ... Read more

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