Integrated pest management (IPM)

Topic:

Methods

Definition:

“…a decision-based process involving coordinated use of multiple tactics for optimizing the control of all classes of pests (insects, pathogens, weeds, vertebrates) in an ecologically and economically sound manner.”

References

Prokopy, R.J. (2003). Two decades of bottom-up, ecologically based pest management in a small commercial apple orchard in Massachusetts. Agric Ecosyst Environ 94:299–309.

Last Updated:

Nov. 2020
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