Biocontrol for Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production, Volume II
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2024 | Viewed by 1476
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stored-product protection; stored-product insect biology; chemical control; non-chemical control; trapping and sampling; taxonomy; aphid parasitoids; forest entomology
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Interests: parasitoid taxonomy; diversity; ecology; biological control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A wide variety of natural enemies are commonly used to biologically control pests in plant production around the world. Numerous biocontrol agents (e.g., bacteria, viruses, fungi, nematodes, parasitoids, and predators) contribute to sustainable and permanent pest control, alone or in combination with chemical or physical treatments, in the framework of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The rapidly growing market availability of these agents and the development of new production technologies provide hope for the establishment of sustainable and environmentally friendly crop protection methods, which should lead to a reduction in the amounts of chemicals added to foods during their production and increase food safety. The use of biocontrol agents should also be used in sustainable production to maintain ecological balance in various ecosystems by protecting organism biodiversity. In this Special Issue, “Biocontrol for Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production”, we aim to promote high-quality research on the use of diverse beneficial organisms in crop/forest protection and food production. Therefore, we are pleased to invite researchers to contribute their original studies to this Special Issue, which will be internally evaluated by our editors prior to review.
Dr. Nickolas G. Kavallieratos
Prof. Dr. Željko Tomanović
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biocontrol
- sustainability
- biological agents
- pests
- food safety
