Abstract

Abstract This book contains 14 chapters discussing the field of habitat manipulation and how ecological engineering approaches to pest management can be developed and applied. Chapters explore the frontiers of ecological engineering methods including molecular approaches, high-tech marking and remote sensing. They also review the theoretical aspects of this field and how ecological engineering may interact with genetic engineering. The wide array of habitat manipulations currently include agroforestry, biological control, crop rotations, crop diversity, flower strips, natural enemy refuges, trap crops and other technologies. Each of these technologies and combinations of these pest suppression technologies, offers opportunities to reduce crop losses to pests while at the same time reducing the use of pesticides and providing potentially valuable habitat for wildlife conservation.