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1. Functional and numerical responses are key components in the selection of predators for biological control. We examined the relevance of these resp...
Read more1. The development of biological control strategies for ornamental crops is challenging due to the high diversity of crops grown and zero tolerance to...
Read moreIncreasing landscape heterogeneity of agroecosystems can enhance natural enemy populations and promote biological control. However, little is known ab...
Read moreThe subsidy hypothesis states that communities receiving nutrient subsidies will demonstrate top-down trophic cascades where predators indirectly incr...
Read moreManagement strategies to enhance ecosystem services in agroecosystems often seek to increase predator biodiversity. Invaders commonly dominate predato...
Read moreThe rate of deforestation in West Africa was around 2% (12 000 km2) per annum during the 1980s, and recent evidence from Cameroon suggests that the ra...
Read moreIntensive agricultural management negatively affects both natural enemies of pests and pollinators. Such management also has the potential to adversel...
Read morePolyphagous predators, such as spiders and beetles, perform a fundamental ecosystem service as regulators of agricultural pests, particularly aphids. ...
Read moreThe numbers of dead and live Sitobion avenae falling to the ground in a wheat crop in 1988-89 in the UK were estimated. The estimates showed that more...
Read more1. In order to realize the full potential of natural enemies in integrated pest management, it is necessary to understand their population dynamics, p...
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