Ecological Aspects as a Basis for Future Pest Integrated Management—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 463
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fruit flies; natural enemies; biological control; ecology of insects; agriculture entomology
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Interests: fruit flies; parasitoids; insect biology and ecology; biological control; integrated pest management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the first Special Issue, “Ecological Aspects as a Basis for Future Pest Integrated Management”, we are pleased to announce the launch of a second series of the Special Issue.
Knowledge of the ecology of insects, mites, vertebrate and invertebrate pests, weeds, and phytopathogens is one of the pillars of integrated pest management. Pests should be understood as out-of-balance populations and cause economic losses. Ecological knowledge about these populations is crucial for longer-lasting pest management with reduced environmental and social impact. The diversification of agroecosystems, agroforests, biological control, the push–pull technique, the sterile insect technique, and the search for selective agrochemicals within an area-wide approach depend significantly on this ecological knowledge. This Special Issue invites the submission of original research articles and reviews to deepen ecological aspects as a basis for future integrated pest management, such as demographic traits, the ecology and evolution of behavioral patterns, population dynamics, diversity, abundance, trophic relationships, host range and status, natural enemies, niche, distribution modeling, phytosociology, allelopathy, competition, absent quarantine pests, and epidemiology.
Dr. Flávio Roberto Mello Garcia
Dr. Sérgio M. Ovruski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant–insect interaction
- population dynamics
- diversity
- host range
- natural enemies
- trophic relationships
- competition
- epidemiology
- phytosociology
- absent quarantine pests
- epidemiology
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