Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

Agricultural production is increasingly viewed as more than a source of food, feed, fiber and
fuel, but also as a system of interdependent biotic and abiotic components that interact to …

Human society is anchored in the global agroecosystem. For millennia, this system has
provided humans with copious supplies of nutrient-rich food. Yet, through chemical …

Several components of classical biological control (CBC) programmes are necessary to
assess the success of the management strategy (eg, post‐release monitoring) and also help …

Thorough pre-release studies to determine the environmental safety of biocontrol agents
and to predict their effectiveness in controlling the target weed are crucial parts of any weed …

The use of molecular techniques in biological studies has rapidly grown and the tools have
become more powerful, widely available, as well as cheaper and easier to implement. For …

Ecological niche models of species occurrence have gained interest in biological control
programs to improve efficiency, reduce risks, and to inform when and how control agents …

Classical biocontrol is key for the successful management of invasive alien plants; yet, it is
still relatively new in Europe. Although post-release monitoring is essential to evaluate the …

Invasive non-native plants (INNP) cause severe impacts on nature and human well-being,
and these are predicted to increase. While management tools have been developed to …

Simple Summary Signaling chemicals produced by one organism that bring about a
behavioral response in a recipient organism are known as semiochemicals, with …