Sterile Insect Technique | Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

A. S. Robinson (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0367474344 / ISBN 13: 9780367474348

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

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Sterile Insect Technique | Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management | A. S. Robinson (u. a.) | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2021 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | EAN 9780367474348 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sterile Insect Technique | Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367474344
• ISBN 13: 9780367474348
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 257W x 185H x 51D millimeters 257 millimeters width by 185 millimeters height by 51 millimeters depth
• Weight: 2472 grams
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Synopsis

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT ― suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication ― with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.

About the Author

Victor A. Dyck, Jorge Hendrichs, A.S. Robinson