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Slugs are a serious pest of many crops, including winter wheat, but current methods of control are unreliable. As part of a research study into the po...

Logging to "salvage" economic returns from forests affected by natural disturbances has become increasingly prevalent globally. Despite potential nega...

Although traditional land-use and management practices are known to enhance environmental heterogeneity in agricultural lands, loss of heterogeneity r...

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

Sown flower strips are increasingly implemented within agri-environment schemes (AES) to increase functional biodiversity and ecosystem services such ...

Bird conservation in agricultural settings can be controversial. While some bird species damage some crops, others suppress insect pests. Few studies ...

Landscape composition affects local arthropod biodiversity, including herbivorous insects and their predators, yet to date landscape effects on insect...

Ecosystem services can maintain or increase crop yield in agricultural systems, but data to support management decisions are expensive and time-consum...

Flower strips are a prominent agri-environmental scheme with the central objective to promote biodiversity and maintain associated ecosystem services....

Preliminary estimates suggested that maize contributed 30% of the toal food biomass consumed by the birds during the post-breeding roosting phase, and...