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Agricultural intensification is a main threat to biodiversity, and vineyards are particularly concerning because of their increasing extent and intens...

Many insect species provide essential pollination services. However, the amount of pollen deposited onto a stigma when visiting a flower ('single visi...

Apple is one of the most widely cultivated fruit crops world-wide, and apple yield benefits from pollination by insects. The global decline in wild po...

Complementarity (CE) and selection effects (SE) have been either invoked to explain the positive diversity-productivity relationship in natural and se...

Progressing climate change and intensified land-use exert unprecedented pressures on soil microbial communities, thus endangering the essential ecosys...

Biodiversity is rapidly declining, reducing the quantity and quality of human interactions with nature and constraining its contribution to human heal...

1. Though coffee was traditionally grown as an understory crop beneath mature trees (i.e. 'shade-grown' coffee), most farms have been converted to ful...

On Rothamsted farm in southern England, the predatory and parasitic arthropod population of part of a winter wheat field alternating with fallow, duri...

Enhancing biodiversity-based ecosystem services can generate win-win opportunities for conservation and agricultural production. Pollination and pest ...

Calyptrate flies include numerous species that are disease vectors and have a high nuisance value, notably Musca domestica. Populations are often asso...