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Cover crops are alternative strategies for managing weeds within the tree row in organic orchards. The choice of the botanical composition of cover cr...
Read moreThe alarming loss of pollinator diversity world-wide can reduce the productivity of pollinator-dependent crops, which could have economic impacts. How...
Read moreIn an apple orchard in south-western England where tits (Parus spp.) ate 95% of the overwintering larvae of Cydia pomonella (L.), only 35% of the surv...
Read moreOne of the current challenges for applied ecologists is to understand how to manage/restore agroecosystems in a sustainable and cost-effective way. Th...
Read moreTropical rainforests are potential reservoirs of insects that could enhance crop pollination, but only a few instances of the provision of such servic...
Read moreWild bees importantly pollinate both crop and wild plants. Yet, in intensive agricultural landscapes, wild bees are rare due to resource limitations o...
Read moreThe relative importance of ecosystem services and disservices can change with landscape structure in a poorly understood way. We compare the impact of...
Read moreAfter a mature apple orchard had been removed by grubbing the trees various experimental treatments (different systems of manuring and ploughing at tw...
Read moreThe foliage-light product (FLP) is proposed as a simple and rapid means of assessing management systems of orchard trees by combining the two importan...
Read moreThere was a marked diurnal variation of light interception by hedgerow orchards on sunny days in June and July. This variation was considerably reduce...
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