Monika Enigl

• BEST Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies

A transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is provoked in European and national policies. Sustainable energy provision has to be aligned with other environmental, social and economic targets, such as air quality or energy security policies, as well. Hence, transition pathways have to be assessed on a broad basis. One potential measu...

IEA Bioenergy is a strong intemational network with a vision to achieve a substantial bioenergy contribution to future global energy demands by accelerating the production and use ofenvironmentally sound, socially accepted and cost-competitive bioenergy on a sustainable basis. ìvVithin IEA Bioenergy and its Tasks, regular information exchange on bi...

This IEA Bioenergy publication contains a country report for each of the member countries of the IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP). It presents a summary of the total primary energy supply (TPES) by resources and the contribution of bioenergy in each case. The information presented is based on International Energy Agency (IEA)...

Neoseiulus californicus (McGregor) is a relatively effective phytoseiid predator against spider mites reported from the Americas (North and South), Africa, the Mediterranean basin, and Japan. This study was a collaborative effort to identify and mass-rear a strain of N. californicus that is more efficacious under arid conditions than the standard c...

Endosymbiotic bacteria that potentially influence reproduction and other fitness-related traits of their hosts are widespread in insects and mites and their appeal to researchers' interest is still increasing. We screened 20 strains of 12 agriculturally relevant herbivorous and predatory mite species for infection with Wolbachia, Cardinium and Spir...

Integration of optimal foraging and optimal oviposition theories suggests that predator females should adjust patch leaving to own and progeny prey needs to maximize current and future reproductive success. We tested this hypothesis in the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis and its patchily distributed prey, the two-spotted spider mite Tetranyc...

The cytoplasmically inherited bacterium Wolbachia is widespread in arthropod species and has been repeatedly detected in the predaceous mite Phytoseiulus persimilis. Our original goal was to assess the prevalence of Wolbachia infection in P. persimilis and the potential fitness consequences for this host. To accomplish that goal, seven P. persimili...

Close inbreeding may have negative fitness effects. Consequently, organisms have evolved various mechanisms, which enable them to avoid close inbreeding. In no-choice and choice experiments we assessed whether the predaceous mite Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Acari: Phytoseiidae) avoids close inbreeding by kin recognition. No-choice exper...