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Although organic farming was originally promoted as an alternative farming system to address agronomic, environmental and ecological issues, its conve...

Agricultural practices shape arthropod communities in arable fields, consequently influencing their interactions and the resulting ecosystem services,...

Culicoides midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are ubiquitous on farms in the United Kingdom (UK), but little research has explored their abundance, an ...

Predators can provide a valuable ecosystem service by suppressing crop pests. However, intraguild predation, where predators compete for the same prey...

In the Netherlands, agri-environment schemes are an important tool for halting the ongoing decline of meadow birds and, in particular, waders breeding...

The following is virtually the author's summary of this account of investigations on Guadalcanal (Solomon Is.) based on observations by the author and...

The simplification of agricultural landscapes through the increase in cropped area has caused the loss of habitats for many species that fulfil import...

Hundreds of recent studies have voiced concern over the negative impacts of non-target pesticides on pollinator health. However, pesticide loads are h...

Human-dominated landscapes are characterized by a mosaic of natural and managed ecosystems, affecting arthropod communities on different spatial scale...

These two parts of a series deal with studies in an apple orchard in south-eastern England in 1953-59 on the effect of routine sprays of winter wash (...