Forest Pest and Disease Management in Latin America: Modern Perspectives in Natural Forests and Exotic Plantations

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1. General perspectives.- Chapter 2. Biological control of forest pests in Uruguay.- Chapter 3. Past and Current Strategies for the Control of Leaf- cutting Ants in Brazil.- Chapter 4. Remote sensing for insect outbreak detection and assessment in Latin America.- Part 2. Pests of natural forests.- Chapter 5. Ormiscodes amphimone outbreaks frequency increased since 2000 in asubantarctic Nothofagus pumilio forests of Chilean Patagonia.- Chapter 6. Ormiscodes outbreaks dynamics: impacts and perspectives in a warming world.- Chapter 7. Native forest health in Chile: towards a strategy of sustainable management.- Part 3. Pests and diseases of forest plantations.- Chapter 8. Invasive insects in forest plantations of Argentina: ecological patterns and implications for management.- Chapter 9. Diseases of Eucalyptus plantations in Uruguay: current state and management alternatives.- Chapter 10. Pests Management in Colombian Forest Plantations.- Chapter 11. Diseases management in the forest plantations in Chile.- Chapter 12. Insect Pests Affecting Exotic Trees in Chile and Their Management.- Chapter 13. Pest status and management in the forest plantations of Costa Rica.- Chapter 14. Forest diseases in Brazil: status and management.- Index.