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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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Comparación de la abundancia y biodiversidad de artrópodos auxiliares entre parcelas de cultivo ecológico y convencional, en plantaciones de cítricos, caqui y nectarina
TL;DR: Pocos trabajos en los que se evalua el efecto of the diferentes sistemas de manejo de plagas sobre the fauna auxiliar y the biodiversidad en cultivos arboreos mediterraneos aremos muestreado periodicamente.
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Conservation Biocontrol: Principles and Implementation in Organic Farming
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that organic farming (OF) provides a promising framework for increasing conservation biocontrol at field and farm scales in agricultural landscapes, and they looked at most of the commonly used OF practices at different spatio-temporal scales and discussed their effects on pest populations, natural enemy communities and bi-cooperation in agroecosystems.
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Assemblage of filamentous fungi associated with aculeate hymenopteran brood in reed galls
TL;DR: Infections of generalist host species were more frequent than those of reed gall specialists, suggesting that suboptimal conditions decreased the immunocompetence of non-specialized species, which only occasionally nest in reed galls and feed in reing beds.
Management Implications for Invertebrate Assemblages in the Midwest American Agricultural Landscape
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate vegetation management within the agricultural landscape and determine at which scale and which practices are most beneficial to invertebrate assemblages and the associated food web.
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Organization of a Plant-Arthropod Association in Simple and Diverse Habitats: The Fauna of Collards (Brassica Oleracea)
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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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Vegetational Diversity and Arthropod Population Response
TL;DR: Vegetational diversity plays a central role in this research renaissance on cultural and biological controls in entomology because it involves mixing different kinds of plants in a plant community.