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Biological control of arthropod pests using banker plant systems: Past progress and future directions
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Demonstrated grower interest in banker plant systems provides an opportunity for researchers to improve biological control efficacy, economics, and implementation to reduce pesticide use and its associated risks.About:
This article is published in Biological Control.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 231 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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Habitat management to suppress pest populations: Progress and prospects
TL;DR: Improved understanding of biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships means that researchers now have a firmer theoretical foundation on which to design habitat management strategies for pest suppression in agricultural systems, including landscape-scale effects.
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Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture
Lijbert Brussaard,Patrick Caron,Bruce M. Campbell,Leslie Lipper,Susan A. Mainka,Rudy Rabbinge,Didier Babin,Mirjam M. Pulleman +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make the case for a science that develops the best ecological means to produce food in a way that has substantially less negative effects on biodiversity and associated ecosystem services and indeed, should be able to contribute to their persistence and enhancement.
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Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects
Gerben J. Messelink,J. Bennison,Oscar Alomar,B. L. Ingegno,Luciana Tavella,Les Shipp,Eric Palevsky,Felix L. Wäckers +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the opportunities and tools to develop such a system is presented, and knowledge gaps are identified where additional research is needed to optimize these tools, where additional knowledge gaps also need to be identified.
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The Banker Plant Method in Biological Control
Ningxing Huang,Annie Enkegaard,Lance S. Osborne,P.M.J. Ramakers,Gerben J. Messelink,J. Pijnakker,Graeme Murphy +6 more
TL;DR: The benefits of using banker plant systems, such as low cost, increased freshness of beneficials, possibility for preventive control and for integration within IPM frameworks, make the method an interesting plant protection option with potential to enhance adoption of biological control in pest management programs.
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Biological Control: Ecology and Applications
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of historical analyses, theoretical models and case studies, with explicit links to invasion biology, are used to enhance our understanding of biological control interactions by combining theory and practical application.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges
Michel Loreau,Shahid Naeem,Pablo Inchausti,Jan Bengtsson,J. P. Grime,Andy Hector,David U. Hooper,Michael A. Huston,Dave Raffaelli,Bernhard Schmid,David Tilman,David A. Wardle +11 more
TL;DR: Larger numbers of species are probably needed to reduce temporal variability in ecosystem processes in changing environments and to determine how biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem processes, and abiotic factors interact.
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Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management
TL;DR: In this article, the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, need a landscape perspective, which is difficult to be found in the literature.
REVIEWS AND SYNTHESES Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity - ecosystem service management
TL;DR: In this article, the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, need a landscape perspective, which may compensate for local highintensity management.
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Habitat Management to Conserve Natural Enemies of Arthropod Pests in Agriculture
TL;DR: The rapidly expanding literature on habitat management is reviewed with attention to practices for favoring predators and parasitoids, implementation of habitat management, and the contributions of modeling and ecological theory to this developing area of conservation biological control.
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Interactions Among Three Trophic Levels: Influence of Plants on Interactions Between Insect Herbivores and Natural Enemies
TL;DR: It is argued that theory on insect-plant interactions cannot progress realistically without consideration of the third trophic level, and plants have many effects, direct and indirect, positive and negative, not only on herbivore but also on the enemies of herbivores.