Invasive Lepidoptera: Monitoring, Distribution, Taxonomy, Evolution, and Management of Agricultural and Forest Pests
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 2336
Special Issue Editors
Interests: invasive species; biodiversity; conservation biology; forest insects
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: entomology; Lepidoptera; biodiversity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Background & history of this topic: With the recent increase in international trade, concerns about invasive pests are increasing. In addition, as the distributional ranges of insect pests expands or moves according to environmental changes such as climate change, unexpected insect species are becoming pests. Lepidoptera insects are a huge group of insects with over 200,000 known species worldwide, including many pest species due to their diverse ecological characteristics. Against this background, the need for research on invasive pest species is increasing.
Aim and scope of the Special Issue: The aim of the special volume is to provide useful and practical information of the invasive species of Lepidoptera pests by synthesizing the research results on the investigation, classification, evolution and management among agricultural and forest pests.
Cutting-edge research: molecular systematics; taxonomy; identification; evolution; management
What kind of papers we are soliciting: research articles only
Prof. Dr. Bonk Kyu Byun
Dr. John W. Brown
Prof. Dr. Sora Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Lepidoptera
- invasive species
- agricultural pest
- forest pest
- taxonomy
- phylogeny
- management
- methodology in plant quarantine
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