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A History of Methodological, Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Biological Control

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Biological Control: Measures of Success

Abstract

A number of the seminal biological control texts such as Sweetman (1936), DeBach (1964), Huffaker (1971), Hagen and Franz (1973) and DeBach and Rosen (1974) document successful examples and track the overall development of biological control. Other accounts exist of specific episodes, Dod?s (1940) ‘The Biological Campaign Against Prickly-Pear’, for example. The most recent history available is that of Van Driesche and Bellows (1996). The aim of this chapter is not to reproduce or summarise such comprehensive accounts, but rather to propose a chronological framework in which to view the development of various methodological approaches in biological control and to consider how empirical and theoretical inputs have influenced its practice.

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  1. Pest Management Group, Faculty of Rural Management, The University of Sydney, PO Box 883, Orange, New South Wales, 2800, Australia

    G. M. Gurr

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    N. D. Barlow

  3. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK

    J. Memmott

  4. Division of Plant, Soil and Ecological Sciences, Lincoln University, PO Box 84, Canterbury, New Zealand

    S. D. Wratten

  5. Leverhulme Unit for Population Biology and Biological Control, NERC Centre for Population Biology and CABI Bioscience, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK

    D. J. Greathead

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Gurr, G.M., Barlow, N.D., Memmott, J., Wratten, S.D., Greathead, D.J. (2000). A History of Methodological, Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Biological Control. In: Gurr, G., Wratten, S. (eds) Biological Control: Measures of Success. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4014-0_1

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