Fourth National IPM Symposium


Fourth National IPM
Symposium/Workshop
2003



 Session: Putting Whole System Pest Management into Practice
Wednesday 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizer(s):
Fred Magdoff (frederick.magdoff@uvm.edu)


The following presentations are in this session:

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM An Overview of Whole System Pest Management Joe Lewis


4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Creating and Maintaining Healthy Soils Fred Magdoff


4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Decreasing Insect Pests by Ecosystem Management Jason P Harmon
    Agroecosystems can have a profound impact on pest herbivores. The presence or absence of specific plants or habitats, along with their spatial structure and location, can influence herbivores and their ultimate effect on the host plant we wish to protect. Unfortunately, we cannot accurately predict the ecosystem changes that will decrease pest damage in a given system, and which changes will avoid unintended effects that could increase pest problems. The solution may lie in a stronger connection between the patterns discovered from current management techniques and hypotheses we generate about the direct and indirect ecological mechanisms that produce those patterns.