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To enhance biological pest control in crop fields, it is recommended to increase semi-natural area on farm and decrease insecticide spraying. While th...
Read moreRice-fish co-culture system has a history of more than 2,000 years in Asia and has been recognized as one of FAO's Globally Important Agricultural Her...
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 moreBiological pest control has become one of the central principles of ecological intensification in agriculture. However, invertebrate natural enemies w...
Read moreTwo simulation models are presented which predict the impact of local and episodic applications of pesticide on the dynamics of invertebrate metapopul...
Read moreGeneralist insect predators provide an important ecosystem service in the regulation of agricultural pests. However, the role of predation in the dyna...
Read moreThe occurrence of enemy-free space presents a challenge to the top-down control of agricultural pests by natural enemies, making bottom-up factors suc...
Read moreBiological pest control, relying on naturally occurring predator-prey dynamics, is considered a key element to achieve more sustainable farming system...
Read moreIn investigations in New Zealand, percentage estimates of the total mortality of Pieris rapae (L.) due to ground-living arthropod predators obtained b...
Read moreProviding noncrop flowering resources in agricultural landscapes is widely promoted as a strategy to support arthropods that deliver pollination and p...
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