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Vegetation cover was manipulated in enclosures in a field boundary in southern England to test experimentally the effect on overwintering by the preda...

Diversifying agricultural systems by growing more than one crop species in an area can decrease pest and disease pressure and increase crop yields. Ho...

Fragmentation of habitat, for example by intensive agricultural practices, can be detrimental to local biodiversity. However, it often remains unclear...

Multiple pressures (land-use change, water extraction and climate change) interact to influence biodiversity and ecosystem processes, but direct evide...

Retention forestry and prescribed burning aim to alleviate the negative effects of forestry on biodiversity by maintaining the structural elements of ...

When assessing the cause of population absence or decline, it is important to understand the relative effect of local, regional and global factors. In...

Managed systems harvested at intermediate time-scales have advantages over annual short-cycled systems in maintaining top-down control of insect herbi...

A simulation model of the population dynamics of the delphacid Nilaparvata lugens on rice in Zhejiang Province, China, was constructed using field pop...

Interactions between the polyphagous carabid predator Pterostichus melanarius and slugs were investigated from July to September 1992, before and afte...

Grass-sown raised earth banks were created as islands in the centres of 2 winter wheat fields in the UK to provide improved overwintering conditions f...