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Biological pest control is a key ecosystem service, and it depends on multiple factors acting from the local to the landscape scale. However, the effe...
Read moreA new model for the biological control of the pest weevil Sitona discoideus by the parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides is presented. Based on an earli...
Read moreLearning is a behavioural change based on memory of previous experiences and a ubiquitous phenomenon in animals. Learning effects are commonly life-st...
Read moreIntensive agricultural management negatively affects both natural enemies of pests and pollinators. Such management also has the potential to adversel...
Read moreThis report details a biological control feasibility assessment for Carpobrotus edulis (Aizoaceae), an invasive plant threatening sensitive UK coastal...
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 moreThe scope and complexity of interactions within community food webs necessitates their simplification to a community module scale for conducting empir...
Read more1. The development of biological control strategies for ornamental crops is challenging due to the high diversity of crops grown and zero tolerance to...
Read moreEvaluation of the success of biological control agents is essential to improve the efficiency and safety of future programmes. This study assessed the...
Read moreFollowing the accidental introduction of the bostrichid beetle Prostephanus truncatus into East and West Africa around 1980, a classical biological co...
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