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The Concept of Pesticide-Free Pest Control in the Crimean Forests

Journal: Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Vol.7, No. 4)

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Page : 34-45

Keywords : Pests; Forest management; Bio-control;

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Abstract

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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