Title:	Insects as Natural Enemies
Authors:	Mark A. Jervis
Keywords:	Natural Enemies
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The past three decades have seen a dramatic increase in practical and theoretical studies on insect natural enemies. The importance and appeal of insect predators, and of parasitoids in particular, as research animals derives from the relative ease with which many species can be cultured and experimented with in the laboratory, the simple life-cycles of most parasitoids, and the increasing demand for biological control of insect pests. This book – an updated and considerably expanded version of Jervis and Kidd (1996) – is intended to guide enquiring students and research workers to those approaches and techniques that are most appropriate to the study and evaluation of predators and parasitoids. It is neither a practical manual nor a ‘recipe book’ – most chapters are accounts of major aspects of the biology of natural enemies, punctuated with advice on which experiments or observations to conduct and how, in broad terms, to carry them out. Detailed protocols are usually not given, but guidance is provided, where necessary, on literature that may need to be consulted on particular topics.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/57376
ISBN:	978-1-4020-2625-6
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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