NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Multimodal Animal Communication Ecology

虽然现代杀虫剂在控制害虫类群方面发挥了关键作用，但许多昆虫已经开发出了杀虫剂 抵抗。此外，公众对持续和日益增长的杀虫剂使用的担忧促使监管机构 机构限制其使用，这导致了许多害虫的死灰复燃。其他害虫继续攻击 对人、牲畜、粮食和纤维的影响，严重影响我们的健康和以自然资源为基础的经济。 迫切需要替代和更综合的虫害防治战略。主席的续任提案 是关于这些选择中的一些：多模式通信信号，昆虫、扁虱、蜘蛛和啮齿动物 用来交流，以及这些分类群用来定位资源的多模式觅食线索。这个 重点是发现多模式和多分量通信信号和觅食线索 因为越来越多的证据表明，脊椎动物和无脊椎动物都融合了不同类型的 信息。新的视觉、信号化学、声学、红外、生物磁性和静电的发现 通信信号和觅食线索，以及它们之间的协同作用，将使 更有效的引诱剂和驱虫剂，以及针对特定目标的害虫控制的新策略。第四届主席--任期 将针对对家畜(角蝇和马蝇)造成严重痛苦的具有挑战性的害虫群体，携带 致病病原体(蚊子、扁虱、啮齿动物)，或者只是逃脱了有效控制(蓟马， 蜘蛛)。

Although modern pesticides play a key role in controlling pest taxa, many insects have developed pesticide resistance. Moreover, public concern over continued and growing use of pesticides has prompted regulatory agencies to restrict their use which has lead to the resurgence of many pests. Other pests continue their assault on people, livestock, food and fiber, severely affecting our health and natural resource-based economies. Alternative and more integrated pest control strategies are urgently needed. The renewal proposal of the Chair is about some of those alternatives: multi-modal communication signals that insects, ticks, spiders and rodents utilize to communicate, and multi-modal foraging cues that these taxa exploit to locate resources. The emphasis is on the discovery of multi-modal and multi-component communication signals and foraging cues because - increasingly - evidence indicates that both vertebrates and invertebrates integrate diverse types of information. The discovery of novel visual, semiochemical, sonic, infrared, bio-magnetic and electrostatic communication signals and foraging cues, and synergisms between them, would allow the development of more effective attractants and repellents, and new tactics for target-specific pest control. The 4th Chair-term will target challenging pest groups that inflict severe pain on livestock (horn & stable flies), carry disease-causing pathogens (mosquitoes, ticks, rodents), or simply have escaped effective control (thrips, spidermites).