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"Pests of landscape trees and shrubs" Table Of Contents:

• 1- What's in this book
• 2- Designing an IPM program : Which organisms are pests? ; IPM program components
• 3- Growing healthy trees and shrubs : Growth requirements ; Plant development and seasonal growth ; Design a pest-tolerant landscape ; Site preparation and planting ; Water management ; Fertilizing woody plants ; Pruning ; Injuries, hazards, and protecting landscapes
• 4- Abiotic disorders : Water deficit and excess ; Aeration deficit ; Nutrient deficiencies ; Nitrogen excess ; Salinity ; Boron and other specific ions ; pH problems ; Herbicide phytotoxicity ; Other chemical phytotoxicity ; Chilling injury ; Freezing and frost ; Sunburn ; Sunscald ; High and low light ; Thermal injury, or high temperatures ; Edema ; Rose phyllody ; Mechanical injury ; Hail ; Wind ; Lightning ; Gas injury ; Air pollution
• 5- Diseases : Types of pathogens ; Monitoring and diagnosing diseases ; Disease management ; Blossom and fruit diseases ; Leaf and twig diseases ; Limb and trunk diseases ; Mushroom and other spore-forming structures in landscapes ; Root and crown diseases
• 6- Insects, mites, and snails : Damage ; Life cycles ; Control action guidelines, or thresholds ; Monitoring and diagnosing problems ; Sampling ; Management ; Home invasions by nuisance pests ; Foliage, fruit, and root chewers ; Sucking insects ; Gall makers ; Foliage miners ; Twig, branch, and trunk boring insects ; Bee and yellowjacket nuisance ; Fruit flies ; Mites ; Pillbugs and sowbugs ; Snails
• 7- Weeds : Weed management before planting ; Weed management in plantings ; Types of weeds and their management ; Annual broadleaves ; Annual grasses ; Sedges ; Perennial grasses ; Perennial broadleaves ; Algae, lichens, and mosses
• 8- Nematodes : Damage ; Identification and biology ; Management of nematodes ; Root knot nematodes ; Root lesion nematodes ; Dagger nematodes ; Ring nematodes ; Stunt nematodes ; Citrus nematode
• 9- Problem-solving tables : Problem-solving guide ; Tree and shrub pest tables.

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