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n. (context biology English) The biological control of pests by the use of organisms that are natural predators, parasites, or pathogens.
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BioControl is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media covering all aspects of basic and applied research in biological control of invertebrate, vertebrate, and weed pests, and plant diseases. The journal was established in 1956 as Entomophaga and published by Lavoisier, before moving to Springer and obtaining its current name in 1998. BioControl is published bimonthly. From 1998 to 2006, Heikki Hokkannen was the editor-in-chief. The current editor-in-chief is Eric Wajnberg ( INRA, France).
Usage examples of "biocontrol".
Successful activated transfer of mammalian genes, Virunga Biocontrol Institute.
Virunga Biocontrol Institute was built in the hills overlooking Lake Kivu, at the southern edge of the Virunga range.
She should not slip like that: her biocontrol, to now, had always been as close to perfect as anything associated with a biological system could be.
After a couple of days, a couple of biocontrol sessions, I could already call on more energy.
The Treasury Department will never believe in this story of biocontrol, alien plants, astatine, and human robots.
But Biocontrol refuses to diversify the weed-grazers on account of the system working at max efficiency for oxygen generation as is.
Helda, read the nametag over her left breast pocket, Biocontrol Warden.
I require you to open this door at once or find yourself in violation of Biocontrol Regulations 176b and 2a.
Quarantine, Rau followed the supine form of his still-stunned superior off for whatever short-arm inspection Biocontrol demanded without a word.
Cleaning it up could be a nice little training exercise for your biocontrol people.
Snake had heard of people incapable of biocontrol, but not very often.
Yet she could not believe he was really one of the unfocused pitiful human beings who could never learn any biocontrol at all.
That meant that the Federal Biocontrol Authority had declared an outbreak and had formally assumed control over the situation.
There were checkpoints maintained by police and Federal Biocontrol authorities, who would test anyone passing through.
I am Nias Warouw, director of the Guard Corps of the Planetary Biocontrol.