Host Range Testing of Insects for Biological Weed Control: How Can It Be Better Interpreted?

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Is host‐specificity of weed biological control agents likely to evolve rapidly following establishment? (2002, methodology): “…valuable to distinguish between the fundamental host-range of a herbivore, the limits of which are determined genetically, and the realized hostrange, which is how the fundamental host-range is expressed within a particular environment (Nechols et al. 1992; van Klinken 2000a; Schaffner 2001).”
Classical biological control: exploiting enemy escape to manage plant invasions (2008, background): “…can complete its full lifecycle or specific stages during its lifecycle) and ecological host range (the subset of plant species from the fundamental host range that are actually used under field conditions) (e.g., Withers et al. 1999; van Klinken 2000; Schaffner 2001; Sheppard et al. 2005).”
Selection of non-target species for host specificity testing of entomophagous biological control agents. (2005, background): “This is also true for those cases where significant differences in attack rates among the test species were found, because spatial and temporal distribution of preferred and less-preferred hosts in the area of introduction is usually highly variable (e.g., Schaffner 2001 ).”