Environmental Impacts of Microbial Insecticides
Subtitle: Need and Methods for Risk Assessment (Progress in Biological Control)
Contributors: H.M.T Hokkanen (Editor); Ann E. Hajek (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781402008139
Subjects: Food & beverage technology; Food manufacturing & related industries; Insecticides & pesticides; Pollution & threats to the environment; Microbial insecticides; Environmental Science; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Agriculture - Agronomy; Agriculture - Crop Science; Science / Biology; Environmental aspects; Environmental risk assessment
First sentence: In the past 100 years many exotic natural enemies have been imported, mass reared and released as biological control agents.