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Environmental Impacts of Microbial Insecticides

Need and Methods for Risk Assessment

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Editors:
  1. Heikki M. T. Hokkanen

    1. Department of Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Ann E. Hajek

    1. Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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Part of the book series: Progress in Biological Control (PIBC, volume 1)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages ii-xii
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  2. General Framework

    1. Ecological Risk Assessment Framework for Biological Control Agents

      • Heikki M. T. Hokkanen, Franz Bigler, Giovanni Burgio, Joop C. Van Lenteren, Matt B. Thomas
      Pages 1-14

  3. Entomopathogenic Fungi

    1. Entomopathogenic Fungi as Classical Biological Control Agents

      • Ann E. Hajek, Italo Delalibera Junior, Linda Butler
      Pages 15-34

    2. Safety of Hyphomycete Fungi as Microbial Control Agents

      • Susanne Vestergaard, Andrew Cherry, Siegfried Keller, Mark Goettel
      Pages 35-62

    3. Assessing the Impacts of Metarhizium and Beauveria on Bumblebees

      • Heikki M. T. Hokkanen, Qing-Qi Zeng, Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen
      Pages 63-71

  5. Entomopathogenic Microsporidia

    1. Environmental Safety of Microsporidia

      • Leellen F. Solter, James J. Becnel
      Pages 93-118

  7. Entomopathogenic Nematodes

    1. Biocontrol Nematodes

      • Ralf-Udo Ehlers
      Pages 177-220

  8. General Aspects of Environmental Risk Assessment

    1. Ecological Insights into Factors Affecting the Non-Target Impact of Microbial Control Agents

      • Matt B. Thomas, Liam D. Lynch
      Pages 221-235

    2. Regulatory Requirements for Ecotoxicological Assessments of Microbial Insecticides — How Relevant are They?

      • Stefan T. Jaronski, Mark S. Goettel, Chris J. Lomer
      Pages 237-260

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 261-269
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About this book

Biological pesticides are increasingly finding therr place in IPM and increasing numbers of products are making therr way to the marketplace. Particularly in China, Latin America and Australia, implementation is proceeding on a large scale. However, in the USA and Europe, registration procedures for insect pathogens to be used for insect control have been established that requrre low levels of risk, resulting in costs of retarding the implementation of microbial agents. This book provides a review of the state of the art of studies on the envrronmental impact of microbial insecticides. It originates from a Society for Invertebrate Pathology Microbial Control Division Symposium .. Assessment of envrronmental safety of biological insecticides", organised in collaboration with the EU-ERBIC research project (FAIR5-CT97-3489). This symposium was initiated by Heikki Hokkanen and Chris Lomer, and was held at the SIP Annual Meeting in 2001 in The Netherlands. The emphasis in this book is on large scale use of microbial agents for insect control, demonstrating how this use has been proceeding with minimal envrron­ mental impact. This book is intended to be of use to regulatory authorities in determining whether further studies in eertain areas are necessary and how to conduct them if needed, or whether sufficient information has been collected already to permit fuH registration of many of these biological control agents.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Heikki M. T. Hokkanen

  • Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Ann E. Hajek

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environmental Impacts of Microbial Insecticides

  • Book Subtitle: Need and Methods for Risk Assessment

  • Editors: Heikki M. T. Hokkanen, Ann E. Hajek

  • Series Title: Progress in Biological Control

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1441-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0813-9Published: 30 November 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6100-3Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1441-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1573-5915

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-0076

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 269

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Food Science, Business and Management, general, Agriculture, Entomology, Microbial Ecology

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