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Farmland birds can suppress insect pests, but may also consume beneficial insects, damage crops and potentially carry foodborne pathogens. As bird com...
Read moreIncreasing landscape complexity can enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems. However, policies based on conversion of arable lan...
Read moreIdentifying the mechanisms underlying biological invasions can inform the management of invasive species. The enemy release hypothesis (ERH) suggests ...
Read moreNatural enemies may reduce the effectiveness of weed biocontrol agents and can also cause environmental damage, for example to a shared native insect ...
Read moreenThis link goes to a English sectionnlThis link goes to a Dutch section Pest-regulating natural enemies often require crop and non-crop habitats to p...
Read moreRice hoppers can cause devastation to rice crops in SE Asia via disease spread and direct feeding. Current regulation is through pesticides; however, ...
Read moreBiological pest control has become one of the central principles of ecological intensification in agriculture. However, invertebrate natural enemies w...
Read moreThe heather beetle Lochmaea suturalis is a naturally occurring species in the heather dominated landscapes of the United Kingdom. When the heather bee...
Read moreIn the temperate mixed oak forests of Central Europe, outbreaks of insects such as the spongy moth, Lymantria dispar, can cause severe defoliation and...
Read moreIn further investigations at Rothamsted [cf. preceding abstract], parasitism, overcrowding (two or more larvae in the same shoot), disease and predati...
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