Sterile Insect Technique: Principles and Practice in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

by V.A. Dyck

Book Overview

It is a challenge to bring together all relevant information about the sterile insect technique (SIT) and its application in area-wide integrated pest management (AW- IPM) programmes; this book is the first attempt to do this in a thematic way. Since SIT practitioners tend to operate in the context of only one insect pest species, it was also a challenge for authors to develop and write their chapters from generic and global points of view, stressing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402040504
• ISBN13: 9781402040504
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 787 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"