Pt. 1. Scope of biological control
1. Introduction
2. Types of biological control, targets, and agents
Pt. 2. Kinds of natural enemies
3. Parasitoid diversity and ecology
4. Predator diversity and ecology
5. Weed biocontrol agent diversity and ecology
6. Arthropod pathogen diversity and ecology
Pt. 3. Invasions : why biological control is needed
7. The invasion crisis
8. Ways to suppress invasive species
Pt. 4. Natural enemy introductions : theory and practice
9. Interaction webs as the conceptual framework for classical biological control
10. The role of population ecology and population models in biological control / by Joseph Elkinton
11. Classical biological control
12. Weed biological control
Pt. 5. Tools for classical biological control
13. Foreign exploration
14. Climate matching
15. Molecular tools / by Richard Stouthamer
Pt. 6. Safety
16. Non-target impacts of biological control agents
17. Predicting natural enemy host ranges
18. Avoiding indirect non-target impacts
Pt. 7. Measuring natural enemy impacts on pests
19. Field colonization of natural enemies
20. Natural enemy evaluation
Pt. 8. Conserving biological control agents in crops
21. Protecting natural enemies from pesticides
22. Enhancing crops as natural enemy environments
Pt. 9. Biopesticides
23. Microbial pesticides : issues and concepts
24. Use of arthropod pathogens as pesticides
Pt. 10. Augmentative biological control
25. Biological control in greenhouses
26. Augmentative release of natural enemies in outdoor crops
Pt. 11. Other targets and new directions
27. Vertebrate pests
28. Expanding the biological control horizon : new purposes and new targets
29. Future directions.