Biological control and sustainable food production

By J. Bale, J. V. van Lenteren, Franz Bigler. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008

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Subfields: Insect Science, Molecular Biology

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Mitigating the effects of insecticides on arthropod biological control at field and landscape scales (2014, background): “Biological control constitutes an essential component of many pest management programs in multiple ecosystems (e.g. Hoy, 1994; Bale et al., 2008).”
Further evidence for a global decline of the entomofauna (2020, background): “We already know enough to be worried (Forister et al. 2019) and have science‐based ‘no regret’ solutions at hand to immediately mitigate several of the key drivers (Bale et al. 2008; Gurr et al. 2017; Pretty et al. 2018).”
Pest Management in Food Systems: An Economic Perspective (2012, background): “(54) provide evidence that biological control is often cheaper from the farmer’s perspective itself.”
The state of commercial augmentative biological control: plenty of natural enemies, but a frustrating lack of uptake (2012, background): “Inoculative biological control is estimated to be used on 10% of land under cultivation (Bale et al. 2008) and, over the last 120 years, 165 pest species have been brought under long-term control (Cock et al.”
Endophytes vs tree pathogens and pests: can they be used as biological control agents to improve tree health? (2019, background): “The desired outcome of a biological control application is to reduce the pathogen or pest population below a threshold of ecological and economic impact, ideally enabling the host to regain health and eventually restoring the invaded community to the pre-invaded state (Bale et al. 2008).”
Benefits and risks of exotic biological control agents (2011, neutral): “There has been some confusion in the literature on the definitions and terms used to indicate the different forms of biological control, but presently most workers agree that three forms can be distinguished: conservation, classical, and augmentation (augmentative, inundative) biological control (Ei”
Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence (2008, background): “(i) IPM, which uses ecosystem resilience and diversity for pest, disease and weed control, and seeks only to use pesticides when other options are ineffective (e.g. Lewis et al. 1997; Gallagher et al. 2005; Herren et al. 2005; Hassanali et al. 2008; Bale et al. 2008).”
Pesticide use and risk reduction in European farming systems with IPM: An introduction to the special issue (2017, methodology): “It is either existing areas of innovation such as biological control (Bale et al., 2008) and varietal innovation or emerging technologies that improve the efficiency of crop protection, such as precision agriculture (Mahlein, 2016) or diagnostic tools based on molecular methods (Lucas, 2011).”