Biological invasions constitute a major environmental change driver, affecting conservation,
agriculture and human health. Invasive alien species (IAS) impacts include, alterations of …

Plant pathogens have played an important role in weed biological control since the 1970s.
So far, 36 fungal pathogens have been authorized for introduction across 18 countries for …

This review summarizes all known direct nontarget attack (NTA) cases of intentionally
released or actively redistributed weed biological control agents, in order to allow for an …

Meeting the UN's zero-hunger goal and achieving food security for the world's growing
population with sustainable agriculture is a tough challenge. Besides, using unwarranted …

A systematic review focused by plant on non-target impacts from agents deliberately
introduced for the biological control of weeds found significant non-target impacts to be rare …

Improving success rates of classical weed biocontrol programs is an ongoing effort that
requires a variety of different approaches. Previous assessments indicated biocontrol agent …

With the emerging need of switching over to sustainable agricultural practices, kee** in
mind issues such as environmental protection, human safety and animal welfare, use of …

In this paper, we describe five successful classical biological weed control agents released
in the United States. For each of the five arthropod species, we compared data from …

The idea of using living organisms for weed control goes back over a century, and very
encouraging results were obtained from the 1960s to the 1970s. It is foreseeable and …

A dataset of weed biocontrol agents released in New Zealand was used to review the
importance of several factors that have been hypothesized to be predictors of agent impact …