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Generalist arthropod predators act as natural enemies of insect pests in agro-ecosystems. Crop management activities may cause a reduction in arthropo...
Read moreGeneralist predators such as carabid and cantharid beetles form an important component within natural enemy communities in arable land. Usually, preda...
Read moreApex predators can suppress smaller bodied "mesopredators." In doing so, they can provide refuge to species preyed upon by mesopredators, which is par...
Read more1. Wild predators sometimes kill livestock. In Australia the red fox kills lambs, but there are limited experimental data to demonstrate the effects o...
Read moreRice hoppers can cause devastation to rice crops in SE Asia via disease spread and direct feeding. Current regulation is through pesticides; however, ...
Read moreThe numbers of dead and live Sitobion avenae falling to the ground in a wheat crop in 1988-89 in the UK were estimated. The estimates showed that more...
Read moreThree important questions concerning the basic cause of the injuriousness of Tetranychid mites in Australian commercial orchards are whether insectici...
Read moreBiological pest control has become one of the central principles of ecological intensification in agriculture. However, invertebrate natural enemies w...
Read moreConventional agriculture in the global north is typically characterized by large monocultures, commonly managed with high levels of pesticide or ferti...
Read moreThe subsidy hypothesis states that communities receiving nutrient subsidies will demonstrate top-down trophic cascades where predators indirectly incr...
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