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Plant nutrition (bottom-up effects) impacts a plant's ability to withstand herbivory (top-down effects) and influences phytophagous insect fecundity. ...

Understanding environmentally dependent variation in interspecific interactions is needed for evaluating how agroecosystems respond to abiotic stresso...

Root symbionts (rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhizas) are often assumed to increase agricultural productivity consistently. However, rhizobial and myco...

Agri-environmental schemes (AES) are commonly adopted in Europe to reduce the loss of farmland biodiversity. These schemes have, however, been critici...

Species' distributions are likely to be affected by a combination of environmental drivers. We used a data set of 11 million species occurrence record...

Fire is an intrinsic component of many natural ecosystems. In human-modified landscapes that occur in fire-driven ecosystems, it can be difficult to m...

Habitat manipulation is important for enhancing biological control of arthropod pests, but identification of selective food plants that benefit only n...

Slugs are serious pests of winter wheat crops in temperate climates, but current methods of chemical control are often unreliable. The potential for c...

Diversifying agricultural systems by growing more than one crop species in an area can decrease pest and disease pressure and increase crop yields. Ho...

This report details a biological control feasibility assessment for Carpobrotus edulis (Aizoaceae), an invasive plant threatening sensitive UK coastal...