The use of living organisms to suppress the population of a specific pest organism, making it less abundant or less damaging than it would otherwise be (Eilenberg et al., 2001).
Based on the 1919 (Smith, 1919) definition of biological control, one of the original descriptions, biological control agents (including parasites, predators, and pathogens) should provide self-sustained control with density-dependent responses to host populations.
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