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Sown or natural flower strips are a commonly used management practice in agroecosystems and have been demonstrated to increase the abundance of predat...
Read moreThe potential contribution of vertebrate predators to biological control in orchards has been largely overlooked to date. A few studies have shown tha...
Read moreIntensive agricultural management negatively affects both natural enemies of pests and pollinators. Such management also has the potential to adversel...
Read moreLight transmittance and reflectance of sun and shade leaves of apple (cv. Golden Delicious) were measured from May to September over the 380-700 nm wa...
Read morePatterns of light interception, in both time and space, were measured during 1973 and 1974 in apple orchards. Several planting systems were investigat...
Read moreThe viability of fruit pollen carried on the body hairs of insects collected in apple orchards was usually similar to that of pollen from freshly dehi...
Read moreMost pesticide research has focussed on risk to managed honeybees, but other managed and wild bees are also exposed to pesticides. Critically, we know...
Read moreThe foliage-light product (FLP) is proposed as a simple and rapid means of assessing management systems of orchard trees by combining the two importan...
Read moreThe following is based largely on the author's summary of .this part of a series on investigations in south-eastern f-.ngland [cf. RAE A 54 470]. Foll...
Read moreThere was a marked diurnal variation of light interception by hedgerow orchards on sunny days in June and July. This variation was considerably reduce...
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