Control of Pests and Weeds by Natural Enemies

- Preface

Part I: Scope of biological control:
1. Introduction
2. Types of biological control, targets, and agents

Part II: Kinds of natural enemies:
3. Parasitoid diversity and ecology
4. Predator diversity and ecology
5. Weed biocontrol agent diversity and ecology
6. Arthropod pathogen diversity and ecology

Part III: Invasions: why biological control is needed:
7. The invasion crisis
8. Ways to suppress invasive species
Part IV: Natural enemy introductions: theory and practice:
9. Interaction webs as the conceptual framework for classical biological control
10. The role of population ecology and population models in biological control: Joseph Elkinton (University of Massachusetts)
12. Weed biological control

Part V: Tools for classical biological control:
13. Foreign exploration
14. Climate matching
15. Molecular tools: Richard Stouthamer (University of California Riverside)

Part VI: Safety:
16. Non-target impacts of biological control agents
17. Predicting natural enemy host ranges
18. Avoiding indirect non-target impacts

Part VII: Measuring natural enemy impacts on pests:
19. Field colonization of natural enemies
20. Natural enemy evaluation

Part VIII: Conserving biological control agents in crops:
21. Protecting natural enemies from pesticides
22. Enhancing crops as natural enemy environments

Part IX: Biopesticides:
23. Microbial pesticides: issues and concepts
24. Use of arthropod pathogens as pesticides

Part X: Augmentative biological control:
25. Biological control in greenhouses
26. Augmentative release of natural enemies in outdoor crops

Part XI: Other targets and new directions:
27. Vertebrate pests
28. Expanding the biological control horizon: new purposes and new targets
29. Future directions

- References
- Index

Roy Van Driesche, University of Massachusetts, is an expert in biological control in the Entomology Division of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. An earlier book on this topic by Van Driesche was published in 1996 as well as one on the invasive species problem. He is currently working to resolve the threat to eastern hemlock (a native forest tree) posed by an invasive Japanese adelgid.
 
Mark Hoddle, University of California, Riverside, has written numerous articles and edited conference proceedings on biocontrol. He has recently successfully controlled the glassy wing sharpshooter in French Polynesia with introduced egg parasitoids.
 
Ted Center, US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, is a world leader in biological control of invasive plants, in particular against the world's worst water weed, waterhyacinth, and against melaleuca, an invasive Australian tree threatening the survival of the Florida Everglades, a World Heritage site.

"This text will be valued by students, biocontrol professionals, farmers, and ecologists concerned with invasive species and pest management." ( Southeastern Naturalist , July 2008)
"Valuable for upper-level curricula and as a reference course ... Highly recommended." ( CHOICE , January 2009)