Integrated Pest Management

Michael P Hoffmann, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, New York, USA
Frank G Zalom, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Thomas P Kuhar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA

Published online: January 2006

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003248

A variety of pests plague agricultural and nonagricultural settings causing economic or ecological losses. The strategy that uses multiple tactics to manage pests in a manner that poses minimal environmental, health and economic risks is integrated pest management.

Keywords: pesticides; pests; ecology; IPM

Figure 1. The IPM continuum, ranging from heavy reliance on pesticides with little use of other tactics (No IPM) to little pesticide use and more reliance on biologically based and cultural tactics (Biointensive IPM).
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 Further Reading
    book Burn AJ, Coaker TH and Jepson PC (1987) Integrated Pest Management. London: Academic Press.
    book Carson R (1962) Silent Spring. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
    book Cate JR and Hinckle MK (1994) Integrated Pest Management: The Path of a Paradigm. Washington DC: National Audubon Society.
    Kogan M (1998) Integrated pest management: historical perspectives and contemporary developments. Annual Review of Entomology 43: 243–270.
    book Kovac J, Petzoldt C, Degni J and Tette J (1992) A Method to Measure the Environmental Impact of Pesticides. Geneva, NY: New York State Integrated Pest Management Program, Cornell University. http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/publications/EIQ.html.
    book Leslie AR and Cuperus GW (1993) Successful Implementation of Integrated Pest Management for Agricultural Crops. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis.
    book Pedigo LP (1996) Entomology and Pest Management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
    book Pimentel D (2002) Encyclopedia of Pest Management. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
    book Van den Bosch R (1978) The Pesticide Conspiracy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
    book Zalom FG and Fry WE (1992) Food, Crop Pests and the Environment; the Need and Potential for Biologically Intensive Integrated Pest Management. St. Paul, MN: APS Press.

Related Sub-Topics:

Human Impacts | Conservation and Management | Plant Biotechnology | Plant Ecology | Crops and Plant Breeding
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Hoffmann, Michael P, Zalom, Frank G, and Kuhar, Thomas P(Jan 2006) Integrated Pest Management. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003248]