The Concept of Pesticide-Free Pest Control in the Crimean Forests
Oak leafroller, gypsy and winter moths contribute to a pathological situation in the Crimean forests exposed to strong recreational activities, which add to the weakening of the forest ecosystems. In this respect we develop a concept of pesticide-free forest protection that presupposes an optimal ba...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.pnu.edu.ua/index.php/jpnu/article/view/4900 |
| Summary: | Oak leafroller, gypsy and winter moths contribute to a pathological situation in the Crimean forests exposed to strong recreational activities, which add to the weakening of the forest ecosystems. In this respect we develop a concept of pesticide-free forest protection that presupposes an optimal balance between natural self-regulation opportunities and management, taking into account the long-term effects. The practical steps include preventive and current biological pest control, different in primary, secondary and tertiary niduses of pest outbreaks in the Crimean forests. All pest-control measures should be elaborated as a successive chain of steps joining in a common ecologically and economically sound system. Preventive and current bio-control actions become easy and soft with increase in the forest’s ecosystem complexity and restoration of natural self-regulation. |
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| ISSN: | 2311-0155 2413-2349 |