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Food Webs as a Tool for Studying Nontarget Effects in Biological Control

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Nontarget Effects of Biological Control

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Biological control has been described as the most powerful ecological technology for pest management (Lockwood 1996). However, biological control practitioners are under growing pressure from both science and society to improve upon their predictions of safety and effectiveness of control-organism introductions (McEvoy 1996). This is because over the last 10 to 15 years, conservation biologists have become increasingly concerned that biological control can lead to the extinction of native species (Bennett 1993, Howarth 1985, Howarth 1991, Gagne and Howarth 1982) and potentially damage whole ecosystems (Simberloff and Stiling 1996a, Simberloff and Stiling 1996b, Miller and Aplet 1993).

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Memmott, J. (2000). Food Webs as a Tool for Studying Nontarget Effects in Biological Control. In: Follett, P.A., Duan, J.J. (eds) Nontarget Effects of Biological Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4577-4_10

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