Encyclopedia of pest management /

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Imprint:New York : Marcel Dekker, c2002.
Description:xxii, 929 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Pests -- Control -- Encyclopedias.
Pesticide resistance.
Pests -- Biological control.
Pests -- Control.
Encyclopedias.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6005581
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Other authors / contributors:Pimentel, David, 1925-
ISBN:0824706323 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acaricides
  • Acute Human Pesticide Poisonings
  • Aerial Application
  • Airblast Sprayers
  • Allelochemics
  • Allergenic Reactions to Pesticides and Pests
  • Antagonistic Plants
  • Aquatic Weed Control With Herbicides
  • Areawide Pest Management
  • Arthropod Host Plant Resistant Crops
  • Augmentative Controls
  • Auxiliaries: Deodorants, Diluents, Solvents, Stickers, Surfactants, and Synergists
  • Bacterial Endophytes
  • Banding of Pesticides
  • Bioaccumulation
  • Biofertilizers
  • Biological Control of Insects and Mites
  • Biological Control of Nematodes
  • Biological Control of Plant Pathogens (Fungi)
  • Biological Control of Plant Pathogens (Viruses)
  • Biological Control of Vertebrates
  • Biological Control of Weeds (Insects and Mites)
  • Biological Control of Weeds (Microbes)
  • Biological Control Successes and Failures
  • Biopesticides
  • Bioremediation
  • Biotic Community Balance Upsets
  • Bird Damage and Control
  • Bird Impacts
  • Birds in Pest Management
  • Botanicals
  • Cancers From Pesticides
  • Canopy Management
  • Cattle Pest Management (Arthropods)
  • Centers of Origin
  • Chagas' Disease
  • Chemical Sex Attractants
  • Chronic Human Pesticide Poisonings
  • Compatibility of Chemical and Biological Pesticides
  • Conservation of Biological Controls
  • Conservation of Natural Enemies
  • Control of House Flies and "Filth" Flies
  • Controlled Droplet Application
  • Cosmetic Standards (Blemished Food Products and Insects in Foods)
  • Cover Crops
  • Crop Covers for Weed Suppression
  • Crop Diversity for Pest Management
  • Crop Pest Control Consultants
  • Crop Rotations (Insects and Mites)
  • Crop Rotations (Plant Diseases)
  • Cultural Controls
  • Cure (Therapeutics)
  • Dairy Pest Management (Arthropods)
  • Decision Making
  • Deer Damage and Control
  • Deposition
  • Dispersal of Plant Pathogens
  • Disposal of Pesticides and Pesticide Containers
  • Domestic Animal Impacts
  • Dormant Treatments
  • Durable Resistance in Crops to Pests
  • Ecological Aspects of Pest Management
  • Ecological Causes of Pest Outbreaks
  • Ecological Role of Pests
  • Economic and Social Aspects of Pest Management
  • Economic Benefits of Pest Management
  • Economic Decision Levels
  • Effects of Pesticides
  • Effects of Transgenic (Bt) Crops On Natural Enemies
  • Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use
  • Environmental Controls
  • Environmental Impacts of the Release of Genetically Modified Organisms
  • Eradication of Pests
  • Ethical Aspects of Biotechnology
  • Ethical Aspects of Pesticide Use
  • Fallows
  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
  • Fertilizer Nutrient Management
  • Field Crop Pest Management (Insects and Mites)
  • Field Crop Pest Management (Plant Pathogens)
  • Field Crop Pest Management (Weeds)
  • Flame Weeding in Corn
  • Fleas
  • Flooding (Weed Control in Rice)
  • Food Contamination with Pesticide Residues
  • Food Laws and Regulations
  • Food Quality Protection Act
  • Forecasting Pest Outbreaks
  • Forest Losses to Pest Insects/Mites and Plant Pathogens
  • Forest Pest Management (Insects)
  • Forest Pest Management (Plant Pathogens)
  • Forest Pest Management (Weeds)
  • Formulation
  • Fruit Crop Pest Management (Insects and Mites)
  • Fumigants
  • Fungal Control of Pests
  • Fungicides
  • Genetic Improvement of Biocontrol Agents
  • Genetically Modified Foods
  • Geographic Location of Crop
  • GIS and GPS Systems in Pest Control
  • Glasshouse Crop Pest Management (Insects and Mites)
  • Glasshouse Crop Pest Management (Plant Pathogens)
  • Greenhouse Crop Losses (Diseases)
  • Ground Sprayers
  • Herbicide Alteration of Crops
  • Herbicide-Resistant Crops
  • Herbicides
  • Historical Epidemics (e.g., Irish Potato Famine)
  • History
  • History of Biological Controls
  • History of Pesticides
  • House Dust Mites
  • Human Lice
  • Human Pesticide Poisonings
  • Hygiene (Including Destruction of Crop Remains)
  • Inorganic Pesticides
  • Insect Growth Regulators
  • Insectistasis as a Means of Controlling Pest Populations in the Storage Environment
  • Insect-Vectored Crop Diseases
  • Integrated Farming Systems
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Integration of Tactics
  • Interaction of Host-Plant Resistance and Biological Controls
  • Intercropping for Pest Management
  • Invasion Biology
  • Invertebrate Pests
  • Landscape Patterns and Pest Problems
  • Lawn-Care Treatments (Plant Pathogens)
  • Leaching
  • Legal Aspects of Pest Management and Pesticides
  • Lethal Genes for Use in Insect Control
  • Licensing and Certification of Pesticide Applicators
  • Light Traps
  • Livestock Pest Management (Insects)
  • Living Mulches
  • Losses from Aquatic Weeds
  • Losses to Nematodes
  • Losses to Vertebrate Pests
  • Lyme Disease
  • Malaria
  • Machanisms of Resistance: Antibiosis, Antixenosis, Tolerance, Nutrition
  • Minilivestock
  • Minor Use
  • Mite-Borne Diseases (Such as Scrub Typhus)
  • Modeling Pest Management
  • Modified Atmospheric Storage
  • Molluscicides
  • Monocultures and Pests
  • Mosquito-Borne Arboviral Encephalitides
  • Mycorrhizae
  • Mycotoxins
  • Natural Pesticides
  • Nematode Control of Pests
  • Nematode Management
  • Nonchemical or Pesticide-Free Farming
  • North American Forest Losses Due to Insects and Plant Pathogens
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Optimizing Pesticide Applications
  • Organic Agriculture
  • Organic Farming
  • Origins of Weeds: Benefits of Clean Seed
  • Ornamental Crop Pest Management (Insects)
  • Other Mammal Damage and Control
  • Ovipositional Disruption Employing Semiochemicals
  • Pest Concept
  • Pest Management in Ecological Agriculture
  • Pest Management in Organic Farming
  • Pest Management in Tropical Agriculture
  • Pest Population Monitoring
  • Pest Status
  • Pest/Host-Plant Relationships
  • Pesticide Mutagenesis
  • Pesticide Reduction in Developing Countries
  • Pesticide Risk to Bee Pollinators
  • Pesticide Sensitivities
  • Pesticide Teratogenesis
  • Physical Barriers for the Control of Insect Pests
  • Phytotoxicity
  • Plant Density
  • Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria
  • Plant Pathogen Pest Management
  • Plant Quarantine
  • Planting Times
  • Pneumatic Control of Agricultural Insect Pests
  • Population Theory and Pest Management
  • Postharvest Crop Losses (Insects and Mites)
  • Postharvest Food Losses (Vertebrates)
  • Postharvest Insect Control with Inert Dusts
  • Postharvest Pest Losses
  • Poultry Pest Management (Arthropods)
  • Predacides
  • Prevention
  • Principles of Pest Management with Emphasis on Plant Pathogens
  • Protective Clothing
  • Protozoan Control of Pests
  • Public Health and Costs of Pesticides
  • Quality and Yield Losses
  • Reflective Mulches
  • Refugia for Pests and Natural Enemies
  • Regulating Pesticides
  • Regulating Pesticides (Laws and Regulations)
  • Repellents
  • Reproductive and Developmental Effects From Occupational Pesticides Exposure
  • Reproductive Control Methods
  • Resistance Management
  • Resistance Management in Host-Plant Resistance
  • Resistance to Host-Plant Resistance
  • Resistance to Pesticides
  • Rhizobia
  • Risks of Biological Control
  • Risks of Vertebrate Pests
  • Rodent Damage and Control
  • Rodenticide (and Vertebrate Pesticide) Effects on Wildlife Health
  • The Role of EPA in Pesticide Regulation
  • Role of FDA in Pesticide Laws
  • Role of USDA in Pesticide Laws
  • Sampling
  • Scabies Mites
  • Scouting
  • Seed Treatments
  • Seeding Rate
  • Sheep Pest Management (Arthropods)
  • Shifting Cultivation
  • Short Season Crops
  • Site-Specific Farming/Management (Precision Farming)
  • Sleeping Sickness
  • Soil Erosion and Pesticide Translocation Control
  • Solarization
  • Spray Drift
  • The Sterile Insect Technique
  • Sterility Caused by Pesticides
  • Sticky Traps
  • Stored Food Pest Management
  • Strategy
  • Structural Pests
  • Surface Waters: Pesticide Pollution
  • Sustainable Agricultural Practices
  • Swine Pest Management (Arthropods)
  • Swine Pest Management (Vertebrates)
  • Synchrony and Asynchrony Plantings
  • Systems Management
  • Tactics
  • Thresholds for Pesticide Treatment
  • Ticks
  • Tillage
  • Toxins in Plants
  • Traditional Cropping Systems
  • Transgenic Crops (Annuals)
  • Transgenic Crops (Perennials)
  • Trap Crops
  • Trapping Pest Populations
  • ULV Applications
  • UN Development Program/UNIDO Experience Toward Risk Reduction in Pesticide Production and Usage in Asia and The Pacific Region
  • Use of Preplant and Postharvest Immersion for Disease Management in Horticultural Crops
  • Vectors of Human Disease
  • Vegetable Crop Pest Management (Plant Pathogens)
  • Vegetable Crop Pest Management (Weeds)
  • Vertebrate Pests
  • Vertebrate Pests of Cattle
  • Virulence in Plant Pathogens
  • Virus Controls of Pests (Insect and Mites)
  • Weed Dispersal
  • Weed Electrocution
  • Wildlife Kills
  • Index