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Die Stellung der biologischen Schädlingsbekämpfung im integrierten Pflanzenschutz 1
Author(s) -
Franz J. M.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
zeitschrift für angewandte entomologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.795
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1439-0418
pISSN - 0044-2240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0418.1972.tb02211.x
Subject(s) - control (management) , constructive , frame (networking) , integrated pest management , biological pest control , pest control , ecology , computer science , biology , telecommunications , process (computing) , artificial intelligence , operating system
The role of biological control in pest management. Biological control comprises both, the addition of new biotic elements to actively reduce pest organisms and the protection and furthering of beneficial organisms already present. Manipulation of biotic antagonists can be considered as one of the constructive principles of the total potential of integrated control schemes (fig. 1). Each single case uses different elements (cp. fig. 2 and 3). The place of “biotechnical control” between technical and biological methods is defined and briefly exemplified (fig. 1). ‐ After discussing the programme for the Darmstadt biological control laboratory the attention is centered on such cases which do not fit into the frame of the “economic injury level”. Neither the life saving effect of vector control nor the protective and social value of silviculture and agriculture in densely populated regions can normally be calculated on a monetary basis. Nevertheless, the importance of less expensive integrated control measures is thought to increase in future. It will be applied where medical and ecological reasoning leave no other possibility and where agriculture becomes part of conservation.