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The use of beetle banks to conserve predatory beetles for the control of pest Diptera was studied in Washington, USA. Locally, the community of predat...
Read moreOutbreaks of the water vole Arvicola terrestris cause severe damage in grasslands of upland regions of Europe. The sheer speed of this phenomenon is a...
Read moreIntensive agricultural land use negatively impacts biodiversity, including arthropod predator diversity and their pest control potential. Alley-croppi...
Read moreEcological theory on predator-prey interactions and an understanding of how environmental factors affect predator dispersal and host finding is founda...
Read moreIncreasing natural pest control in agricultural fields is an important aim of ecological intensification. Combined effects of landscape context and lo...
Read moreThe weather is believed to affect the establishment of insect biological control agents in the field, in particular heavy rainfall immediately after r...
Read moreOne of the key ecosystem services offered by avian biodiversity within agricultural landscapes is natural predation. Nonetheless, the current use of b...
Read moreThe impact of the oligophagous capitulum weevil Larinus latus on seed production by its host Onopordum species was studied in its native range in orde...
Read more1. Increasing plant diversity in agricultural systems is a promising way to balance food production and biodiversity conservation. Biological pest con...
Read moreThe development of transgenic technologies, coupled with sterile insect techniques (SIT), is being explored in relation to new approaches for the biol...
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