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For decades, biological control of insect pests has been a rich source of concepts and theory for population ecology. Researchers interested in biological control introduced both the basic idea of density dependence (Howard and Fiske, 1911) and early parasitoid-host models (Nicholson and Bailey, 1935). Even metapopulation theory had its origins as a potential source of insight into biological control (Levins, 1969). Here we look to biological control for data that might shed light on theory in population ecology.
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Murdoch, W.W., Briggs, C.J., Collier, T.R. (1998). Biological control of insects: implications for theory in population ecology. In: Dempster, J.P., McLean, I.F.G. (eds) Insect Populations In theory and in practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4914-3_7
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