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Chapter 3<br />

- financial; since the development of ClBC is relying on various sources of funding<br />

(agronomic partners, scientific partners, politic institutions) with various interests <strong>and</strong><br />

rationale (more or less short-term results, scientific excellence versus applied objectives).<br />

Within this context, global evaluations of ClBC programmes are necessary to better<br />

underst<strong>and</strong> the evolution of this practice <strong>and</strong> try to improve its use <strong>and</strong> efficiency. This has<br />

been repeatedly achieved during the last years either through reviews or meta-analysis. Based<br />

on a large (but probably not exhaustive) bibliographic survey, the present work aims to give a<br />

complementary point of view with the willingness to portray a realistic “state of the art” of<br />

Research <strong>and</strong> Development programmes of ClBC <strong>against</strong> arthropods. This chapter also firstly<br />

gives a broad temporal survey of the publication <strong>and</strong> a more precise survey of the literature<br />

for the decade [1999; 2008]. Bio<strong>control</strong> programmes <strong>against</strong> arthropods were then more<br />

precisely detailed with the objectives to give qualitative cues about the main pests <strong>and</strong> the<br />

types of related studies. Finally, a particular emphasis has been put on recent introductions of<br />

exotic insect parasitoids.<br />

Based on these data, we also address some more or less important subjective<br />

recommendations based on our own opinion.<br />

Method<br />

A large bibliographic survey has been conducted with the CAB abstracts. Several<br />

combinations of key-words were used with various successes. Too broad (e.g; cases for<br />

which discussion about ClBC are marginal) or unprecise (e.g. cases for which a pest is not<br />

precised) publications were excluded. A total of 764 publications were found using the keywords<br />

“classical <strong>biological</strong> <strong>control</strong>” or “classical bio<strong>control</strong>”. 452 papers were published<br />

during the period [1999-2008] but about 30% were not relevant with regard to the purpose of<br />

this survey <strong>and</strong> have been discarded. Using the more complex combinations [“<strong>biological</strong><br />

<strong>control</strong>” AND “exotic” AND “introduction”], 329 ClBC-related publications were obtained<br />

but only 253 dressed precisely questions related to classical <strong>biological</strong> <strong>control</strong>. 117 were<br />

published during the selected temporal frame but only 81 were relevant with regard to our<br />

objectives. Additionally, 47 ClBC-related publications were obtained using the more keywords<br />

association [“<strong>biological</strong> <strong>control</strong>” AND “exotic” AND “importation”] with 17 papers<br />

for the last ten years. Most of this literature was dedicated to the risk or regulatory aspects<br />

associated with the importation of exotic BCA so that only 7 relevant publications with<br />

regard to our objectives. Finally, 130 publications were found using “acclimatization” AND<br />

“<strong>biological</strong> <strong>control</strong>” for only one relevant publication for the targeted period. A total of 358<br />

publications were also obtained which is probably for far from being exhaustive. For<br />

instance, 37 new references about BCA introductions were found in addition to the first 35<br />

references found with the previous key-words combinations (see Table 9). Additional<br />

bibliographic research were also realised for some taxa (see below)<br />

[Remark: Although the terms “classical <strong>biological</strong> <strong>control</strong>” or “classical bio<strong>control</strong>”<br />

may be not as explicit as others (“introduction”, “importation”), the generalization of their<br />

use in titles, key-words or abstracts should be nevertheless used in order to improve the<br />

efficiency of bibliographic survey]<br />

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