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Integrated Biodiversity Management

Johari Jalinas

Centre for Insects Systematic,

School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences

Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

e-mail: johari_j@ukm.my

Integrated biodiversity management is a system that emphasis on ecosystem

management in which agro-ecosystem is engineered to favor the natural enemies and

infavor to the pest. Biological diversity can be defined as the variety and multiformity of

life, especially of species, in a general sense. Concerns about the loss of biological

diversity have resulted in a general increase in demand for the preservation of

biodiversity, also in relation to forestry.

The conservation of the biodiversity of the agro ecosystem is the key for

implementation of the integrated biodiversity management. The biodiversity elements are

soil, water, humidity, beneficial insects and natural enemies. The implementation of the

alternatives method especially the biological control must come together with the

establishment of the Integrated Biodiversity Management. These elements can be used by

the natural enemies as habitat refuges and also for getting alternative foods when their

preys or host is not available during the critical conditions.

There are many techniques and strategies had been established so that the

natural enemies can be conserved and at the same time it gives the farmers the effective

method to control the pest by using the biopesticides

Modifying crop tillage systems offers additional opportunities to influence levels

of on-farm biodiversity. GPS technologies were used to identify areas requiring attention

and continually vary input application accordingly. Creating on-farm temporary

habitat niches to enhance levels of beneficial insects and also for the natural enemies.

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Integrating nitrogen-fixing legumes into crop rotation regimes: Legumes such as beans

and clover maximized natural soil nitrogen levels, reducing the need for additional

mineral fertilizer input. Beside that, biodiversity indices are also used as local priorities of

management strategies with respect to biological diversity in the agro-ecosystem.

Agricultural technologies, for example, irrigation, mechanization, enhanced

seeds, crop protection and nutrition products contribute to productivity increases on land

already cultivated. Sustaining of biodiversity will increases in food production per human

capita and also reversing current trends in natural resource degradation. Integrated

biodiversity management is very important when we want to use natural enemies as

biological agents to control the insect pest.

The company that associated with the agriculture also must play a role in

implementation of the Integrated Biodiversity Management. The roles of the plant

science company in Integrated Biodiversity Management are very important so that the

production of the crop will give more benefit to them and also to the farmers.

Three key roles a plant science company can play in improving crop productivity

(Annik Dollacker, and Claire Rhodes, 2007)

1. Developing plant science technologies that contribute to improving agriculturalproductivity on land already cultivated.

2. Integrate biodiversity conservation objectives in the development of state of the artagricultural technologies.

3. Appropriately adapting agricultural technologies to local conditions and encouragingIntegrated Crop Management (ICM) practices at a farm level, as one element of broader

approaches to biodiversity conservation within agricultural landscape

As a conclusion, Integrated Biodiversity Management is very important for the

environment, the economic well-being and social development in agriculture industry.

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