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Classical weed biological control programmes aim to rapidly establish biocontrol agent populations throughout the range of a weed. Release strategies,...
Read moreClassical biological control (CBC) can be used to decrease the density of invasive species to below an acceptable ecological and economic threshold. N...
Read moreResults of recent research on Dactylopius opuntiae, a biological control agent for cactus weeds (Opuntia spp.) in South Africa and elsewhere, challeng...
Read moreEvaluation of the success of biological control agents is essential to improve the efficiency and safety of future programmes. This study assessed the...
Read moreConventionally, agent host specificity has been the major concern in the selection of prospective agents for biological control of weeds. However, sub...
Read moreNatural enemies may reduce the effectiveness of weed biocontrol agents and can also cause environmental damage, for example to a shared native insect ...
Read moreParasitoids often are selected for use as biological control agents because of their high host specificity, yet such host specificity can result in st...
Read moreInvasive alien plants have serious economic and ecological impacts, for example, by displacing native plants and invertebrates, and their management i...
Read moreThe weather is believed to affect the establishment of insect biological control agents in the field, in particular heavy rainfall immediately after r...
Read moreBiological control agents that impact on non-target native species have limited desirability. Aculus hyperici was introduced into Australia to help co...
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