مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد محدودیت هایی در کنترل بیولوژیکی علف های هرز – اسپرینگر 2018

Biological control of weeds, based on applications of ecological, evolutionary and experimental science, is a highly successful discipline with a rich history, going back over 115 years. It is a global practice: the development of every weed biological control organism, and its subsequent release in the country of introduction, requires collaborative research on at least two continents and typically includes the involvement of several countries. Weed biocontrol practitioners, comprising researchers, land managers and policy makers, constitute a community with a shared goal, namely the suppression of invasive alien plants in agriculture and in conservation areas, through the deployment of suitably-tested and environmentally safe (i.e. sufficiently host-specific), plant-feeding insects, mites and pathogens. A complete record of every deliberate instance of weed biocontrol, worldwide, up to December 2012 (see Table 1 in Winston et al. 2014; and updated at http://www.ibiocontrol.org/catalog/) has been compiled in the expansive 5th edition of ‘Biological control of weeds—A world catalogue of agents and their target weeds’. This compilation records successes and failures, with accounts of the circumstances in each case, and a summary of the information by Schwarzla¨nder et al. (2018) is the subject of the opening paper in this Special Issue of BioControl.