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Although crop rotation has been used for centuries to enhance agricultural production, there are surprisingly little data justifying the use of one ro...

Carbon cycling in grasslands can be impacted by livestock grazing, partially as an indirect result of herbivory-induced compositional shifts in the pl...

A computer model is described which simulates the spread of barley yellow dwarf luteovirus (BYDV) by aphids in winter cereals in SW England. The model...

Improvements in intercrop yields may be achieved through an understanding of yield advantages due to above-ground or below-ground interactions. Forage...

Several recent studies have considered the relative effects of local vs. landscape factors on diversity of several animal taxa in grasslands. However,...

Flooding governs riparian plant diversity along boreal rivers but the ecological role of extreme floods is only partly understood. We studied the dyna...

Introduced plant species modify the environment and alter ecological interactions in communities, often to the detriment of native fauna, but the caus...

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

Ecological intensification seeks to achieve crop yield increases by intensifying complementary or facilitative interactions between plant species or v...

Diversifying agricultural systems by growing more than one crop species in an area can decrease pest and disease pressure and increase crop yields. Ho...