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Spatially explicit bioeconomic model for weed management in cereals: validation and evaluation of management strategies.

Published online: 25 Feb 2015

Authors: González-Díaz, L. & Blanco-Moreno, J. M. & González-Andújar, J. L. & Bennett, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Spatially explicit weed population models are very useful to explore long-term weed management scenarios. The economic implications of the management ...

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Pollination mitigates cucumber yield gaps more than pesticide and fertilizer use in tropical smallholder gardens.

Published online: 25 Feb 2015

Authors: Motzke, I. & Tscharntke, T. & Wanger, T. C. & Klein, A. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollination can be an essential but often neglected ecosystem service to mitigate crop yield gaps. Pollination services are usually studied in isolati...

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Transition to organic farming negatively affects bat activity.

Published online: 19 Feb 2024

Authors: Fialas, P. C. & Froidevaux, J. S. P. & Jones, G. & Batáry, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effectiveness of organic farming on biodiversity has been widely documented especially for plants, arthropods and birds; however, the effects of t...

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Multispecies crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment.

Published online: 30 Sep 2023

Authors: Brandmeier, J. & Reininghaus, H. & Scherber, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Recent biodiversity declines require action across sectors such as agriculture. The situation is particularly acute for arthropods, a species-rich tax...

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Olfactory host location and host preference of Holepyris sylvanidis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) and Cephalonomia waterstoni (Bethylidae), two natural enemies of Tribolium and Cryptolestes species.

Published online: 27 Feb 2019

Authors: Amante, M. & Russo, A. & Scholler, M. & Steidle, J. L. M.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Parasitoids can suppress populations of their host and thus play a primary role in Integrated Pest Management. In the stored product environment, stim...

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Responses of hayfield vegetation to spring grazing by greater snow geese.

Published online: 31 Aug 1991

Authors: Bédard, J. & Lapointe, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Field studies at Montmagny, Quebec showed that the use of hayfields (dominated by Medicago sativa, Trifolium pratense, Phleum pratense, Agropyron repe...

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An assessment of the value of dilute dust insecticides for the protection of stored maize in Kenya.

Published online: 03 Jul 1967

Authors: Ashman, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is based largely on the author's summary of this account of laboratory investigations in Kenya [cf. RAE A 54 394]. Dust formulations of ...

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Indirect effects and biological control of mosquitoes by mosquitofish.

Published online: 04 Oct 1988

Authors: Bence, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Gambusia affinis reduced the abundance of the mosquito Culex tarsalis in a rice field in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The fish also reduced the...

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Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Hulme, P. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Humans have traded and transported alien species for millennia with two notable step-changes: the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Industri...

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Reducing disease and producing food: effects of 13 agrochemicals on snail biomass and human schistosomes.

Published online: 30 Apr 2022

Authors: Haggerty, C. J. E. & Halstead, N. T. & Civitello, D. J. & Rohr, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural expansion is predicted to increase agrochemical use two to fivefold by 2050 to meet food demand. Experimental evidence suggests that agro...

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