Ecological engineering, habitat manipulation and pest management

By G. Gurr, S. Scarratt, S. Wratten, L. Berndt, N. Irvin. 2004

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Insect Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Insect Science

1. Helen E. Roy
2. Felix L. Wäckers
3. R. Ware
4. M. Majerus
5. J. Baverstock
6. J. Pell
7. Dawn M. Olson
8. G. Gurr

Citations in the corpus

• Selective flowers to enhance biological control of cabbage pests by parasitoids (2012, background): “Habitat management, among others, consists of replacing natural elements with increased plant diversity within or around the crop (Landis, Wratten, & Gurr 2000; Gurr et al. 2004).”
• Intraguild predation involving Harmonia axyridis: a review of current knowledge and future perspectives (2008, background): “…strategies aimed at maintaining predator diversity through habitat manipulation and the diversification of our agricultural landscapes could help counter declines in predator diversity associated with the arrival of H. axyridis (e.g., Barbosa 1998; Landis et al. 2000; Gurr et al. 2004; Pell 2008).”
• Management of field margins to maximize multiple ecological services (2006, background): “This contradicts the commonly held notion that conservation biological control through habitat management benefits from high diversity per se (for a critical review Gurr et al. 2004).”
• Enhancing pest control in annual crops by conservation of predatory Heteroptera (2011, background): “High diversity per se was supposed to be desirable for effective CBC, but early in this process, it became evident that ‘‘careful diversification’’ is actually needed (Risch et al., 1983; Prokopy, 1994; Baggen and Gurr, 1998; Gurr et al., 2004).”
• Parasitoids of Asian rice planthopper (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) pests and prospects for enhancing biological control by ecological engineering (2011, background): “In terms of natural enemy taxa, this review is concerned with parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Diptera, Strepsiptera) and considers scope for ecological engineering methods such as nectar plants and refuge vegetation (Gurr et al., 2004) to be used to combat the escalating pest problems.”