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Multi-function agricultural biodiversity: pest management and other benefits
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In this paper, the existence of a hierarchy for the types of benefits of increased biodiversity is discussed, and the ways in which agricultural biodiversity may be increased to favour pest management are examined.About:
This article is published in Basic and Applied Ecology.The article was published on 2003-01-01. It has received 482 citations till now.read more
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Evaluating the potential of buckwheat and cahaba vetch as nectar producing cover crops for enhancing biological control of Homalodisca vitripennis in California vineyards
TL;DR: Buckwheat and vetch are potential nectar-producing cover crop plants in California vineyards that could enhance Gonatocerus ashmeadi Girault, a parasitoid of H. vitripennis, a significant pest of grapevines in California due to vectoring Xylella fastidiosa.
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Perspective on crop modelling in the management of intercropping systems
TL;DR: There is a need to enhance agricultural research on intercrop systems, combining conventional and modern research approaches and CSMs should be multidimensional in order to simulate system diversity accurately.
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Weeds, aphids, and specialist parasitoids and predators benefit differently from organic and conventional cropping of winter cereals
Berta Caballero-López,José M. Blanco-Moreno,Nicolás Pérez-Hidalgo,José M. Michelena-Saval,Juli Pujade-Villar,Emilio Guerrieri,José A. Sánchez-Espigares,F. Xavier Sans +7 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that a bottom-up effect exists throughout the plant community, aphids, and aphidophagous insects and that plant community characteristics should be considered to better understand cereal aphid control.
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Impact of wheat-mung bean intercropping on English grain aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) populations and its natural enemy.
TL;DR: The intercropping experiment clearly showed that increased crop species diversity suppresses aphid population growth and preserves the population of natural enemies of aphids, and provides support for the “resource concentration hypothesis” and the ”enemies hypothesis.
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Discrimination between agricultural management and the hedge effect in pear orchards (south-eastern France)
Jean-François Debras,Franck Torre,René Rieux,S. Kreiter,M.S. Garcin,M. Van Helden,Elise Buisson,Thierry Dutoit +7 more
TL;DR: The arthropod populations in five pear orchards were sampled by beating branches twice a month during the year 2003 in the Provence region of south-eastern France to reveal significant differences in the composition of orchard populations.
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