Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book is the first to integrate biological control into a conceptual framework - ecostacking - uniting all aspects of biological control and ecosystem services. In 2018 the "First International Congress of Biological Control" was organised and held in Beijing, China. The chapters highlight some of the achievements presented at the congress, worldwide. Of particular significance are the numerous contributions by Chinese researchers illustrating the remarkable progress made on developing and adopting multiple biological control strategies over vast agricultural areas, largely replacing chemical pesticides for sustainable agricultural and horticultural production. In many parts of the world including Europe, fragmented research based on short-term funding has been unable to answer to the needs to develop sustainable long-term solutions to crop protection, while colleagues in China have been successful in implementing programs that exemplify the power of the ecostacking approach.
Key contributions by European and US specialists combined with the expertise and experiences by the Chinese contributors comprise the building blocks for the integration of biological control approaches into the overall frame of ecostacking. This book will lead the way to a broader, integrated adoption of biological control techniques in sustainable pest, disease and weed management supporting also the functioning of other key ecosystem services.
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Synopsis
1. Preface Heikki Hokkanen & Yulin Gao
Basic concepts
2. Improving the efficacy of biological control by ecostacking Heikki Hokkanen
3. Integrative biological control approaches in Chinese agriculture Yulin Gao
Biodiversity enhancement for improving biological control
4. Perennial wildflower strips to enhance natural enemies of insect pests in Belgium, Severin Hatt, University of Li ge, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, TERRA-Agriculture, Belgium
5. Flower strips for ecosytem services in Switzerland, Felix Herzog, Agroscope, Zurich Switzerland
6. Enhancement of natural control functioning of rice insect pests by manipulating biodiversity in rice-based ecosystems, Zhongxian Lv, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
7. Cover crops enhance biological control of insect pests in apple orchards in China, Yi Yu, Institute of plant protection, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China
8. Enhancement of natural control function in aphids by intercropping and infochemical releasers in wheat ecosystem, Yong Liu, Department of plant protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Jinan, China
9. Crop diversity and disease control, Chengyun Li and Youyong Zhu, Yunnan Agricultural University, China
Specific techniques to enhance ecostacking
10. Ecological enhancement of arthropod natural enemy application in biological control. Su Wang, Institute of Plant & Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture & Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China
11. Chemical ecology of egg parasitoids in crop protection, Stefano Colazza, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
12. Current knowledge on the migratory moth Autographa gamma as basis for future chemo-ecological research, Paul Becher and Santosh Revadi, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
13. The development of biocontrol products and their applications in the field, Tzu-Pi Huang, China
14. Effects of insecticides on pollen beetles (Brassicogethes aeneus) and their tersilochine parasitoids in Germany, Meike Brandes and Udo Heimbach, Julius Kuehn Institute, Germany
15. How microbiome approaches can assist market development for biological control. Gabriele Berg & Tomislav Cernava, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz, Austria
16. Successful use of entomopathogenic nematodes to control a defoliator outbreak in an environmentally sensitive area, Hokkanen Heikki and Menzler-Hokkanen, Ingeborg, University of Helsinki, Finland
17. Bees and medicinal plants - prospective for entomovectoring, Ekaterina Kozuharova, Ina Aneva, Katerina Bogacheva-Milkoteva, Hristo Valchev, Dave Goulson, Bulgaria/UK
18. (a possible topic by) Georg Heimpel et al., USA
Climate change implications
19. Night warming on predator-prey interactions: implications for biological control: Gang Ma and Chunsen Ma, State Key Laboratory for biology of plant diseases and insect pests, Institute of Plant Protection, CAAS, Beijing, China
20. Landscape-level drivers of biocontrol and case study from local to regional scale under climate change in China, Fang Ouyang, China
21. Spotted Wing Drosophila-blueberry interactions, Paul Becher, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Conclusion and out