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The future of biological control holds promise to provide solutions both to pest problems affecting agricultural production and to needs for environmental protection of natural ecosystems. The ecological principles which underlie the contributions that biological control makes to both managed and natural ecosystems do not change with the passage of time; they are basic to interactions among species and are inherent in the structure of ecosystems. Consequently, employing biological control principles of population management and trophic-level interactions will continue to provide productive, efficient, and economical solutions to pest problems.
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Van Driesche, R.G., Bellows, T.S. (1996). Future Prospects. In: Biological Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1157-7_22
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