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Landscape configuration of crops and hedgerows drives local syrphid fly abundance.

Published online: 02 Apr 2014

Authors: Haenke, S. & Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. & Fründ, J. & Batáry, P. & Jauker, B. & Tscharntke, T. & Holzschuh, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

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

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Native cover crops enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services in hazelnut orchards.

Published online: 03 Mar 2025

Authors: Brambila, A. & Haring, S. & Brown, A. & Lane-Massee, M. & Hallett, L. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agroecological restoration aims to restore biodiversity and ecosystem function in agricultural landscapes while sustaining crop production. Adopting n...

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Archetypes of nature-based solutions for farming in the North York Moors National Park.

Published online: 22 Apr 2025

Authors: Barrios, L. & Arnott, D. & Thompson, R. & Marchant, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Nature-based solutions (NbS) have emerged as crucial strategies to address climate change challenges, offering manifold benefits to biodiversity and c...

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Integrated management of the Fall Armyworm on maize: a guide for farmer field schools in Africa.

Published online: 31 Oct 2018

Published by: Food and Agriculture Organization

Content type: Miscellaneous

Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), FAW, a dangerous transboundary pest native to the Americas, has been spreading rapidly to all sub-regions of Af...

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Beekeeping improves shea pollination and fruit set in west African agroforestry parklands.

Published online: 08 Jul 2024

Authors: Nasare, L. I. & Stout, J. C. & Kwapong, P. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertn) is a fruit tree of domestic and industrial importance in arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Frui...

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Landscape diversity moderates the effects of bee visitation frequency to flowers on crop production.

Published online: 08 Oct 2014

Authors: Petersen, J. D. & Nault, B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Reductions in natural habitat are implicated in declining honeybee Apis mellifera L. and wild bee populations, thereby threatening crop production. Th...

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Plural valuation in southwestern Ethiopia: disaggregating values associated with ecosystems in a smallholder landscape.

Published online: 17 Apr 2024

Authors: Brück, M. & Schultner, J. & Birhanu Bekele Negash & Dadi Feyisa Damu & Abson, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Recognizing the diversity of preferences for, and values ascribed to, ecosystems in decision-making can help to realize more sustainable and equitable...

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Non-material contributions of nature expressed by former tourists of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Published online: 19 Mar 2024

Authors: Pearson, J. & Gross, M. & Hofmann, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Nature-based tourism provides an outlet for people to experience non-material nature's contributions to people (NCP) and can even promote care for nat...

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Vertical structure and basal area development in second-growth Nothofagus stands in Chile.

Published online: 24 Sep 2003

Authors: Lusk, C. H. & Ortega, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Some studies have shown that mixed forest stands can develop more biomass or basal area than pure stands when the component species occupy different s...

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Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles.

Published online: 04 Jun 2008

Authors: Gardner, T. A. & Hernández, M. I. M. & Barlow, J. & Peres, C. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Secondary and plantation forests are becoming increasingly widespread in the tropics. A recent meta-analysis on the impacts of land-use change on trop...

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