Benefits and risks of exotic biological control agents

BioControl

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 681-698

  de Clercq, Patrick ^a   Mason, Peter G ^b   Babendreier, Dirk ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c CABI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Augmentative biological control; Classical biological control; Exotic species; Non target effects; Risk assessment; Risk benefit analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052218169     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10526-011-9372-8     Document Type: Review

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