Local and Landscape Effects to Biological Controls in Urban Agriculture-A Review.

ABSTRACT: Urban agriculture is widely practiced throughout the world. Urban agriculture practitioners have diverse motivations and circumstances, but one problem is ubiquitous across all regions: insect pests. Many urban farmers and gardeners either choose to, or are required to forego, the use of chemical controls for pest outbreaks because of costs, overspray in populated areas, public health, and environmental concerns. An alternative form of pest control is conservation biological control (CBC)-a form of ecological pest management-that can reduce the severity of pest outbreaks and crop damage. Urban farmers relying on CBC often assume that diversification practices similar to those used in rural farms may reduce insect pest populations and increase populations of beneficial insects, yet these ma

SUBMITTER: Arnold JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6681219 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature