Biodiversity and Insect Pests (ePub)

Geoff Gurr is Professor of Applied Ecology at Charles Sturt
University in Australia. Over the last two decades he has worked on
the ecology and management of pests in systems as diverse as
pastures and forests. Much of his recent work has been with
collaborators throughout Asia where insecticide resistance in
sucking pests of rice has driven the development and adoption of
biodiversity-based management strategies.

Steve Wratten is Professor of Ecology at Lincoln
University, New Zealand and Visiting Professor at Charles Sturt
University in Australia. His main research concerns evaluating and
enhancing "nature's services" (ecosystem services). Using resource
economics techniques, the existing value of these services (such
things as biological control of pests) is estimated and then
habitat manipulation ("ecological engineering") is used to enhance
these services on farmland to provide profit and real evidence of
sustainability. This work is done across several agricultural
sectors but especially in vineyards.

William Snyder is Professor of Entomology at Washington
State University, USA. With the help of a small army of students
and postdocs, he explores the relationship between biodiversity and
biocontrol. Recent work focuses on the relative importance of the
two components of biodiversity, species number (richness) and
species balance (evenness), and practical ways for farmers to
harness biodiversity's many benefits.

Donna Read is a Research Assistant at Charles Sturt
University, Australia with interests in rural sociology,
agricultural economics and horticulture.

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