Stefan Vidal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a landscape management perspective for conservation biological control in agroecosystems, where most arthropod species experience their habitat at spatial scales beyond the plot level, and there is spillover of natural enemies across the crop-noncrop interface.

TL;DR: Complex landscapes characterized by highly connected crop–noncrop mosaics may be best for long-term conservation biological control and sustainable crop production, but experimental evidence for detailed recommendations to design the composition and configuration of agricultural landscapes that maintain a diversity of generalist and specialist natural enemies is still needed.

TL;DR: This work integrates biodiversity and crop productivity data for smallholder cacao in Indonesia to exemplify for tropical agroforests that there is little relationship between yield and biodiversity under current management, opening substantial opportunities for wildlife-friendly management.

TL;DR: Leaf inoculation with a conidial suspension proved to be the best method to introduce B. bassiana into sorghum leaves for plants growing in either sterile or non-sterile soil.

TL;DR: It is now evident that entomopathogenic fungi are able to colonize plant tissues as symptomless endophytes, but data published so far are highly variable and not consistent with regard to the underlying mechanisms which would allow explaining these effects.