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Agricultural intensification has led to dramatic losses of species and associated ecosystem services. In the European Union, agri-environment schemes ...
Read moreRemote sensing and spatial analyses are increasingly used to understand the role of seminatural habitats in biocontrol, but knowing how to best levera...
Read moreConservation biological control aims to control pests by promoting wild populations of natural enemies. One challenge is to attract and retain efficie...
Read moreThe use of beetle banks to conserve predatory beetles for the control of pest Diptera was studied in Washington, USA. Locally, the community of predat...
Read moreTwo simulation models are presented which predict the impact of local and episodic applications of pesticide on the dynamics of invertebrate metapopul...
Read moreCarabid beetles are polyphagous predators that can act as biological control agents of insect pests and weeds. While current agricultural practices of...
Read moreInsect herbivores are generally more abundant in agroecosystems than in natural ecosystems. One possible cause is that artificial selection of crop pl...
Read moreThe probability of a transgenic crop establishing a feral population outside cultivated areas and possibly outcompeting naturally occurring species ne...
Read moreThe occurrence of enemy-free space presents a challenge to the top-down control of agricultural pests by natural enemies, making bottom-up factors suc...
Read moreGeneralist insect predators provide an important ecosystem service in the regulation of agricultural pests. However, the role of predation in the dyna...
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