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Insect herbivores are generally more abundant in agroecosystems than in natural ecosystems. One possible cause is that artificial selection of crop pl...

Senescence and death of plant parts are frequently accelerated by various stresses to which plants are subjected. The dynamics of these responses can ...

The response of bird abundance to the proportional availability of un-cropped land (i.e. land that could be cultivated, such as fallows, grass-flower ...

There is concern over the possibility of unwanted environmental change following transgene movement from genetically modified (GM) rapeseed Brassica n...

Thirty-six lines derived from the F₂ of a cross between the Taiwanese soyabean cultivar CH2 (♀) and a wild soyabean strain were investigated at Mishim...

Expanding cities increasingly encroach fertile farmlands, questioning the viability of maintaining agriculture within and around them. Yet, our knowle...

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

A 5-yr survey in NSW revealed considerable annual variation in the abundance, racial diversity and virulence of both pathogen populations. Racial dive...

Wild oats (Avena spp.) were probably introduced into Western Australia from Tasmania c. 1830. Avena fatua and A. barbata now occur throughout the temp...

Species richness is the most widely used biodiversity metric, but cannot be observed directly as, typically, some species are overlooked. Imperfect de...