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The effectiveness of organic farming on biodiversity has been widely documented especially for plants, arthropods and birds; however, the effects of t...

With an expanding human population placing increasing pressure on the environment, agriculture needs sustainable production that can match conventiona...

Local and landscape diversity loss, habitat fragmentation and land-use changes commonly co-occur and impair ecosystem multifunctionality, yet they are...

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are increasingly used in commercial crop production, while wild bees are also important pollinators. Few studies have inves...

Natural habitats adjacent to agricultural areas are often considered sources of species that provide beneficial regulating ecosystem services through ...

Aspects of the flowering biology of wild cashew A. occidentale, an andromonoecious, self-fertile tree, were investigated in north-east Brazil, where t...

Spatial variation in species composition (β-diversity) is an important component of farmland biodiversity, which together with local richness (α-diver...

Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertn) is a fruit tree of domestic and industrial importance in arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Frui...

Multiple crises, including climate change, ecosystem degradation, economic, political and social upheavals, severely impact people's well-being. Ecosy...

Conservation biology faces the challenge of ensuring species persistence in increasingly modified landscapes. Agriculture covers a large proportion of...