Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Ecology, sustainable development, and IPM: the human factor
- 2 From simple IPM to the management of agroecosystems
- 3 Populations, metapopulations: elementary units of IPM systems
- 4 Arthropod pest behavior and IPM
- 5 Using pheromones to disrupt mating of moth pests
- 6 Nutritional ecology of plant feeding arthropods and IPM
- 7 Conservation, biodiversity, and integrated pest management
- 8 Ecological risks of biological control agents: impacts on IPM
- 9 Ecology of natural enemies and genetically engineered host plants
- 10 Modeling the dynamics of tritrophic population interactions
- 11 Weed ecology, habitat management, and IPM
- 12 The ecology of vertebrate pests and integrated pest management (IPM)
- 13 Ecosystems: concepts, analyses, and practical implications in IPM
- 14 Agroecology: contributions towards a renewed ecological foundation for pest management
- 15 Applications of molecular ecology to IPM: what impact?
- 16 Ecotoxicology: The ecology of interactions between pesticides and non-target organisms
- Index
- References
6 - Nutritional ecology of plant feeding arthropods and IPM
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Ecology, sustainable development, and IPM: the human factor
- 2 From simple IPM to the management of agroecosystems
- 3 Populations, metapopulations: elementary units of IPM systems
- 4 Arthropod pest behavior and IPM
- 5 Using pheromones to disrupt mating of moth pests
- 6 Nutritional ecology of plant feeding arthropods and IPM
- 7 Conservation, biodiversity, and integrated pest management
- 8 Ecological risks of biological control agents: impacts on IPM
- 9 Ecology of natural enemies and genetically engineered host plants
- 10 Modeling the dynamics of tritrophic population interactions
- 11 Weed ecology, habitat management, and IPM
- 12 The ecology of vertebrate pests and integrated pest management (IPM)
- 13 Ecosystems: concepts, analyses, and practical implications in IPM
- 14 Agroecology: contributions towards a renewed ecological foundation for pest management
- 15 Applications of molecular ecology to IPM: what impact?
- 16 Ecotoxicology: The ecology of interactions between pesticides and non-target organisms
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Insect nutritional ecology has been defined as an area of entomology that involves the integration of biochemical, physiological, and behavioral information, within the context of ecology and evolution (Slansky and Rodriguez, 1987a). Such a broad view suggests the need for basic studies essential to understanding the different life styles of insects.
Considering the damage inflicted to plant structures by feeding arthropods, it is possible to identify several feeding guilds, from the more conspicuous foliage and fruit chewers to the less noticeable seed-suckers, fruit-borers, and root-feeders. All of these, and many others, have been studied and reviewed under the paradigm of insect nutritional ecology (see chapters in Slansky and Rodriguez, 1987b). In general, these reviews using the insect nutritional ecology model, have focused primarily on basic aspects of the different insects (feeding guild biology), and only secondarily have dealt with applied aspects, despite the enormous importance of insects in these guilds as pests of major crops worldwide.
Within the context of integrated pest management (IPM) systems, several tactics taking into account the nutritional ecology model sensu lato can be considered. They include host plant resistance, trap crops, asynchrony of foods and pests phenology, crop consortiums, and functional allelochemicals.
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- Perspectives in Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management , pp. 170 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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