Pests, weeds and diseases. With a foreword by Professor V.Heywood. 1990. 297x 210 cm. 1554 p. Hardback. 2 volumes.

Agricultural scientists and research workers are currently beingpresented with an ever-increasing amount of biological data from thescientific literature. This thesaurus provides a unique one-stop datasource for the nomenclature and taxonomy of economically importantspecies. Published in two volumes it covers both plants and animalspecies; the majority of organisms included are pest, weed and diseaseorganisms of importance in the field of agriculture, together with somecrops and domestic animals. This thesaurus has been specificallydesigned to meet the information requirements of applied biologists andthose working in agriculture, the pesticides industry, pest management,universities, agricultural colleges and biological informationspecialists. The thesaurus contains main entries for approximately17000 organisms. These include around 80000 synonyms or common names.It provides a cross-referenced source of Latin names, synonyms andcommon names in English, French and German for thousands of importantagricultural organisms.