Chasing the red queen
Subtitle: the evolutionary race between agricultural pests and poisons
By: Andy Dyer
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781610915182; 9781610915199
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Pesticide resistance; Agricultural ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the Red Queen. The never-ending race: adaptation and environmental stress; title: The evolution of farming: scaling up productivity; title: Survival of the fittest: Darwin's principles; title: Ignoring the Red Queen. Reductionist farming: losing ecosystem services; title: A weed by any other name : monocultures and wild species; title: Running faster: insecticide and herbicide resistance; title: Trying to beat the Red Queen. Exercises in futility: cases of resistance; title: King Cotton vs. The Red Queen; title: The cornucopia of maize vs.. the Red Queen; title: The Red Queen trumps technology: the failures of biotech; title: Playing the Red Queen. Understanding the chase to escape the cycle; title: Slowing the race by slowing the attach; title: Ecosystem farming: letting nature do the work; title: Integrated systems and long-term stability; title: Epilogue: Putting all of our eggs in a diversity of baskets.