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Araneae were collected using pitfall traps and absolute density sampling over a period of 6 months in a field of winter wheat in the UK. The numerical...
Read moreAn analysis of predation of cereal aphids (Sitobion avenae and Metopolophium dirhodum) by larvae of Episyrphus balteatus is described. Field data on t...
Read moreSlugs are serious pests of winter wheat crops in temperate climates, but current methods of chemical control are often unreliable. The potential for c...
Read moreDuring 1986 and 1987, 15 wheat and 15 barley fields were surveyed for damage caused by badgers, in an area in the south of England where badger densit...
Read moreThe habitat use and diet of skylarks (Alauda arvensis) wintering on lowland farms were studied to assess whether changes in agricultural practice coul...
Read moreIt is widely recognized that landscape factors affect the biological control of weed seeds and insect pests in arable crops, but landscape effects hav...
Read moreThere are many arthropod species on farmland that are not economic pests but which have an important role in the wider ecology of agricultural ecosyst...
Read moreWhile abiotic drivers of yields represent important limiting factors to crop productivity, the role of biotic drivers that could be directly managed b...
Read moreFood webs in conventional (high-input) and integrated (reduced-input) farming systems were simulated to estimate the contribution of soil microbes and...
Read moreMeasurements were made of the diurnal changes in the leaf water potential of flag leaves of winter-sown and spring-sown wheat in 3 different yr, and o...
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