Nontarget Effects of Biological Control

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Critical Issues Related to Nontarget Effects in Classical Biological Control of Insects

      • L. E. Ehler

      Pages 3-13

   3. Nontarget Effects of Biological Control: What are We Trying to Miss?

      • Jeffrey A. Lockwood

      Pages 15-30

   4. The Frequency and Strength of Nontarget Effects of Invertebrate Biological Control Agents of Plant Pests and Weeds

      • Peter Stiling, Daniel Simberloff

      Pages 31-43

   5. The Impact of Nontarget Concerns on the Practice of Biological Control

      • Russell H. Messing

      Pages 45-55

3. Parasitoids and Predators

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Predicting the Risk from Biological Control Agent Introductions: A New Zealand Approach

      • Barbara I. P. Barratt, Colin M. Ferguson, Stephen L. Goldson, Craig M. Phillips, Donald J. Hannah

      Pages 59-75

   3. Parasitoid Drift in Hawaiian Pentatomoids

      • Peter A. Follett, M. Tracy Johnson, Vincent P. Jones

      Pages 77-93

   4. Evaluating Nontarget Effects of Classical Biological Control: Fruit Fly Parasitoids in Hawaii as a Case Study

      • Jian J. Duan, Russell H. Messing

      Pages 95-109

   5. Trichogramma Nontarget Impacts: A Method for Biological Control Risk Assessment

      • David B. Orr, Carlos Garcia-Salazar, Douglas A. Landis

      Pages 111-125

   6. Coccinellid Introductions: Potential for and Evaluation of Nontarget Effects

      • John J. Obrycki, Norman C. Elliott, Kristopher L. Giles

      Pages 127-145

   7. Food Webs as a Tool for Studying Nontarget Effects in Biological Control

      • Jane Memmott

      Pages 147-163

4. Weeds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Why Things Bite Back: Unintended Consequences of Biological Weed Control

      • P. B. McEvoy, E. M. Coombs

      Pages 167-194

   3. Importation Protocols and Risk Assessment of Weed Biological Control Agents in Australia: The Example of Carmenta nr Ithacae

      • Toni Withers, Rachel McFadyen, Jennifer Marohasy

      Pages 195-214

   4. Negative Ecological Effects of the Musk Thistle Biological Control Agent, Rhinocyllus Conicus

      • Svata M. Louda

      Pages 215-243

   5. Biological Control of Musk Thistle: A Reassessment

      • James R. Nechols

      Pages 245-259

5. Pathogens

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Predicting the Host Range of Entomopathogenic Fungi

      • Ann E. Hajek, Linda Butler

      Pages 263-276

Nontarget Effects of Biological Control is the first book of its kind. The environmental safety of biological control has come under scrutiny due to several areas of concerns: the irreversibility of alien introductions, the prevalence of host switching to innocuous native or beneficial species, dispersal of the biocontrol agent to new habitats away from croplands, and the lack of research on the efficacy and impact of biocontrol attempts. The debate has been strongly polarized between conservationists and biological control practitioners. Nontarget Effects of Biological Control proposes that retrospective analyses of systems in place in which nontarget effects are now documented or suspected provide the necessary information for planning and evaluating future releases to reduce risk. The book presents case histories of past biological control introductions from island and continental ecosystems.

• Fruit
• Fungi
• Lepidoptera
• food
• plant
• predator

`I would think that this book is a `must read' for anyone directly or indirectly associated with the practice of biological control.'
Bradford A. Hawkins in Ecology, 81:11 (2000)

• USDA-ARS Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, USA

  Peter A. Follett

• University of Hawaii, USA

  Jian J. Duan

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