The Impact of Global Change on Biological Control of Pest in Agriculture
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 307
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecology; conservation biology; landscape; monitoring; habitat
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Interests: entomology; conservation biological control; olive pest control; olive fruit fly; predators; parasitoids; natural enemies; integrated pest management; biodiversity; biocontrol; agroecology; landscape; ecosystem services
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biological control as an environmentally sustainable means of reducing or mitigating pest organisms (arthropods, weeds and plant pathogens) through the action of their natural enemies can be an important component of integrated pest management and is of great economic importance to agriculture. Its application strategies can be carried out directly by man (importation and increment of natural enemies) or through indirect actions by management of existing interactions in the agroecosystem landscape (conservation of natural enemies or enhancement of their natural habitats). Currently the impact of global change on these strategies could alter their success and we should be prevented. Global changes encompasses: population, climate, economy, resource use, energy development, transport, land use and land cover, urbanization, atmospheric circulation, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, sea-level rise, food webs, biological diversity, pollution, and more.
The studies of this special issue are expected to address those that relate biological control approaches with processes of global change.
Dr. Marta Ortega Quero
Dr. Susana Pascual
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agroecosystem
- biological control
- climate change
- biodiversity decline
- land use
- landscape
- natural enemies
- parasitoids
- pest
- predator
