Special Issue "Ecological Management of Pests"
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 10768
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biological control; insect ecology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: arthropod ecology; community ecology, ecotoxicology, biological control; integrated pest management, sublethal effects, parasitoid specialization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Conventional chemical pest management systems are fast to reduce pest populations but ignore natural enemies, pollinators and crops in the ecological system, and therefore are not actually capable of the sustainable management of pests. The loss of the effectiveness of many insecticides due to the evolution of resistant pest populations is especially concerning, causing pests to become more rampant and difficult to control.
With the strengthening of people’s consciousness of environment protection and the development of green agriculture, the challenge is to design sustainable ecological pest management capable of meeting the requirements of increased biodiversity conservation and food production.
Ecological pest regulation is a rapidly growing field of fundamental science and applied research. As many effective conventional pesticides are being restricted in more and more countries, biological control is moving to the center of attention for an increasing number of professionals in agriculture and horticulture.
We believe that innovative application techniques that evaluate ecological pest regulation at an appropriate level can significantly improve the use of natural enemies to control pests and can assist in the growth of this field.
This Special Issue will focus on the underlying mechanisms of synergy, additive effect, and antagonism among the natural enemies of insect pests and the evaluation of farm-scale management practices such as flower strips, beetle banks, intercropping or inter-row vegetation, among ecosystem services and concertation among multiple stakeholders for the durable management of resources across the explored territories to meet the requirements of biodiversity conservation and food production.
Dr. Su Wang
Dr. Nicolas Desneux
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecological regulation
- pest population
- natural enemies
- parasitoids
- permaculture
- sustainable development