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Giovanni Burgio

Full Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGRI-05/A General and Applied Entomology

Research

Keywords: applied entomology functional biodiversity insect biodiversity conservation biological control of pests integrated pest management Insect management in organic farming organic farming

Conservation biological control, including landscape management and conservation of insect fauna;  integrated pest management of insects, management of non-crop plants (ecological infrastructures) in rural landscape to enhance beneficial insect populations; insect modelling and spatial data analysis;  sampling techniques of insects of economic importance;  role of Hoverflies (Diptera Syrphidae) in rural landscape; systematic od Hoverflies.

His main topic of interest is conservation biological control, including habitat management and conservation of insect  biodiversity. His particular expertise is the role of habitat manipulation (ecological infrastructures, cover crops, flowering strips and agronomic conservative techniques) in rural landscape to enhance beneficial insect populations and pest control. Within this field, he is also studying advanced techniques like geostatistics for spatial data analysis of insects. His other topics of interest include: integrated pest management of insects, sampling techniques applied to insects, insect biodiversity and selectivity of new insecticided against pollinators and biological control agents.