International Journal of Pest Management publishes original research papers and reviews concerned with pest management in the broad sense, covering the control of pests (invertebrates, vertebrates and weeds) and diseases of plants, fungi and their products – including biological control, varietal and cultural control, chemical controland interference methods.

The management of invasive species is of special interest. We also encourage submissions dealing with interactions of multiple pests such as arthropods and plant pathogens, pathogens and weeds or weeds and arthropods as well as those dealing with the indirect and direct effects of climate change on sustainable agricultural practices.

The journal covers the following scientific topics:

    Population dynamics of pests in relation to management strategies.
    Assessment of pest or weed and disease damage characteristics / levels and associated yield loss; damage and economic thresholds; sampling and monitoring methods.
    Pest management systems including decision support and risk analyses.
    Analysis of farmers’ perceptions of pest management constraints or technologies and of economic benefits supporting studies of the efficacy of pest management at field- and farm-scale.
    The relationship of pest management to the wider aspects of farming systems and rural development policy.
    Pre and post-harvest pest management.
    Novel pest management approaches, technology, methods and techniques
    Non-target effects of pesticide use / of biological control introductions.
    Life-history strategies and evolution of pest organisms / biological control agents.
    Plant defense mechanism in the context of pest management.
    Environmental sustainability in relation to pest management practices.

Editor:
Juan Corley - Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, CONICET and  INTA EEA Bariloche, Argentina
Editorial Board: 
A. Biondi - Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Italy 
S. Chen - Dept. of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina, USA 
C. Damalas - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece 
X. Fauvergue -  INRA Sophia-Antipolis, France 
Y. Gao - Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China. 
B. Hogg - USDA-Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, USA  
S. Senthil-Nathan - Centre for Excellence in Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India 
J.-H. Sun - Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
J.A. Zavala - Facultad de Agronomía, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina  
International Advisory Panel: 
C. Athanassiou - University of Thessaly, Greece 
B. Aukema - University of Minnesota, USA
J. Beggs - University of Auckland, New Zealand 
M. Faccoli - University of Padova, Italy 
R. Guedes - Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
Y. Huang - Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
S. Leather - Harper-Adams University, UK
M. Montserrat - IHSM-UMA-CSIC, Spain
C. Nansen – University of California, Davis, USA
C. Rodríguez-Saona - Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University, USA 
D.C. Weber - USDA Arigultural Research Service, USA