Traditional and Innovative Pest and Disease Monitoring Strategies in Agroforestry
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2023) | Viewed by 17448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: applied entomology; forest entomology; entomopathogens fungi; insect ecology; IPM; biological control
Interests: Plant pathology; Molecular biology
Interests: IPM; insect ecology; applied entomology
Interests: pest population modelling; ecological modelling; applied entomology; decision support systems; computational ecology; precision agriculture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Monitoring is a qualitative and quantitative process useful for defining the presence and population size of insect species and plant pathogens in a defined geographical area or environment. Different monitoring strategies have been developed over time and implemented in several fields of application, such as the detection of pests and pathogens harmful to agricultural production and forestry or in ecological studies, to define entomological and microbial biodiversity in habitats. However, these methodologies satisfy these needs only by offering an estimate of the population abundance of a species or its presence in a given area. This fact imposes the continuous and constant search for new methods of monitoring as well as a refinement of the techniques used to date and useful, among other things, in the early detection of alien species in new environments or in the definition of decision support systems (DSS) in crop protection.
In this framework, submissions related to the following topics are welcome:
- New trap design;
- Traps attractivity;
- Monitoring reliability;
- How monitoring supports the validation of descriptive and predictive models;
- New monitoring techniques;
- New technologies and monitoring;
- Statistical/computational methods to analyze monitoring data;
- Relation between different monitoring techniques;
- Monitoring as support for DSS;
- Economic aspects related to monitoring techniques;
- Environmental consequences of monitoring techniques.
Dr. Mario Contarini
Prof. Dr. Angelo Mazzaglia
Dr. Roberto Mannu
Dr. Luca Rossini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart detection
- precision agriculture and forestry
- integrated pest management
- ecological monitoring
- trap design
- attractive blends
- spatial distribution
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