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International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery
Harvey, Jeffrey A.; Heinen, Robin; Armbrecht, Inge; Basset, Yves; Baxter-Gilbert, James H.; Bezemer, T. Martijn; Böhm, Monika; Bommarco, RiccardoA growing number of studies are providing evidence that a suite of anthropogenic stressors — habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, climate change and overharvesting — are seriously reducing insect and other invertebrate abundance, diversity and biomass across the biosphere. These declines affect all functional groups: herbivores, detritivores, parasitoids, predators and pollinators. Insec...
Next‐generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics
Leung, Kelley; Ras, Erica; Ferguson, Kim B.; Ariëns, Simone; Babendreier, Dirk; Bijma, Piter; Bourtzis, Kostas; Brodeur, Jacques; Bruins, Margreet A.Biological control is widely successful at controlling pests, but effective biocontrol agents are now more difficult to import from countries of origin due to more restrictive international trade laws (the Nagoya Protocol). Coupled with increasing demand, the efficacy of existing and new biocontrol agents needs to be improved with genetic and genomic approaches. Although they have been underutilised in the past...