TY - JOUR AU - Ivashov, Anatoliy AU - Simchuk, Andriy PY - 2020/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Concept of Pesticide-Free Pest Control in the Crimean Forests: Array JF - Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University JA - jpnu VL - 7 IS - 4 SE - Biology DO - 10.15330/jpnu.7.4.34-45 UR - https://journals.pnu.edu.ua/index.php/jpnu/article/view/4900 SP - 34-45 AB - <p>Oak leafroller, gypsy and winter moths contribute to a pathological situation in the Crimean forests exposed to strong recreational activities, which add to the weakening of the forest ecosystems. In this respect we develop a concept of pesticide-free forest protection that presupposes an optimal balance between natural self-regulation opportunities and management, taking into account the long-term effects. The practical steps include preventive and current biological pest control, different in primary, secondary and tertiary niduses of pest outbreaks in the Crimean forests. All pest-control measures should be elaborated as a successive chain of steps joining in a common ecologically and economically sound system.&nbsp; Preventive and current bio-control actions become easy and soft with increase in the forest’s ecosystem complexity and restoration of natural self-regulation.</p> ER -