Can snails ever be effective and safe biocontrol agents?

By R. Cowie. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science

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In Ecology

1. V. Karatayev
2. A. Karatayev
3. L. Burlakova
4. D. Padilla
5. J. Qiu
6. K. Kwong
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2. K. Kwong
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5. R. Chan
6. James W. Smith
7. R. T. Dillon
8. D. Robinson

Citations in the corpus

• Rapid spread of an invasive snail in South America: the giant African snail, Achatina fulica, in Brasil (2007, background): “…fulica using alien predators as biological control agents have led, most notably in the islands of the Pacific, to the decline and in some cases extinction of native snail species, without controlling A. fulica (Civeyrel and Simberloff 1996; Cowie 2001); such methods would be ill-advised in Brasil.”
• Biological control of invasive species: solution or pollution? (2006, background): “The predaceous rosy wolf snail (Euglandina rosea), which was introduced to attack the giant African snail (Achatina fulica), strongly impacted endemic tree snails in Hawaii and French Polynesia (Cowie 2001).”
• The Potential of the Invasive Snail Pomacea canaliculata as a Predator of Various Life-Stages of Five Species of Freshwater Snails (2009, background): “In fact, a usefulness of some ampullariids in controlling the populations of these vectors (reviews by Dillon, 2000; Cowie, 2001).”
• Insights from an Integrated View of the Biology of Apple Snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae) (2015, background): “…they have been proposed as biocontrol agents against other snail species that are intermediate hosts of human parasites (e.g., Pointier et al., 1988, 1991) as well as against invasive plants, although such approaches can have serious non-target impacts and have been criticized (Cowie, 2001).”
• Invertebrate Invasions on Pacific Islands and the Replacement of Unique Native Faunas: A Synthesis of the Land and Freshwater Snails*Contribution no. 2001-001 of Bishop Museum's Pacific Biological Survey. (2001, background): “…of museum collections, the greater need is for modern, focused survey work, such as that recently undertaken in American Samoa (Cowie and Cook 2001; Cowie 2001b), which would allow us to gain a far clearer picture of the real extent of alien invasion of Pacific islands by alien snails and slugs.”
• Global diversity of gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in freshwater (2007, background): “Consequently, some exotic species (notably Pomacea canaliculata) have become serious pests, adversely impacting agriculture (rice, taro production) and/or native faunas and floras through predation and competition (Purchon, 1977; Cowie, 2001 ).”
• Introduction, distribution, spread, and impacts of exotic freshwater gastropods in Texas (2009, background): “This species was even investigated as a potential agent for macrophyte control (reviewed in Robins, 1971; Cowie, 2001 ).”
• Alien Non-Marine Snails and Slugs of Priority Quarantine Importance in the United States: A Preliminary Risk Assessment (2009, background): “While it is widely distributed in the United States (Roth and Sadeghian 2003), it is only a major agricultural pest, notably of citrus, in California (e.g., Sakovich 2002).”