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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...

The current human-induced intensification of grazing pressure and the aridity increase as a result of climate change are unprecedented and have been i...

The occurrence of enemy-free space presents a challenge to the top-down control of agricultural pests by natural enemies, making bottom-up factors suc...

Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) regulate plant growth, plant community dynamics and ecosystem functioning and are important for global biogeochemical cycl...

Invasions by exotic annual grasses (EAGs) are replacing native perennials in semiarid areas globally, including the vast sagebrush-steppe rangelands o...

Phratora vulgatissima is the most serious pest of willow grown as short-rotation coppice in Britain. The effects of genetically diverse plantations of...

Plant invasions pose significant threats to native ecosystems, human health, and global economies. However, the complex and multidimensional nature of...