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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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Managing the Soil Mycorrhizal Infectivity to Improve the Agronomic Efficiency of Key Processes from Natural Ecosystems Integrated in Agricultural Management Systems
Sanâa Wahbi,Hervé Sanguin,Ezékiel Baudoin,Estelle Tournier,Tasnime Maghraoui,Yves Prin,Mohamed Hafidi,Robin Duponnois +7 more
TL;DR: The influence of some cultural practices that mimic these natural processes in agrosystems, on soil microbiota leading to a sustainable microbial complex with high efficiency against phosphorus mobilization and transferring phosphorus from the soil organic matter or from soil minerals to the host plant is described.
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Plant Diversity Increased Arthropod Diversity and Crop Yield in Traditional Agroforestry Systems but Has No Effect on Herbivory
Daniel K. N’Woueni,Orou G. Gaoue +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used structural equation modeling on empirical data collected in agroforestry systems around the Pendjari biosphere reserve in West Africa, and found that increasing plant diversity in and around agricultural systems can limit the pest attack rate and increase crop yield.
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Soil Biodiversity and Tree Crops Resilience
Aurelio Ciancio,Mauro Gamboni +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a perspective on the potential of these studies in the management of tree crops, by identifying main drivers and services underpinning the implementation of sustainable strategies.
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Effect of pigeon pea intercropping or shading with leucaena plants on the occurrence of the coffee leaf miner and on its predation by wasps in organic coffee plantings
Adriano Thibes Hoshino,Orcial Ceolin Bortolotto,Fernando Teruhiko Hata,Maurício Ursi Ventura,Ayres de Oliveira Menezes Junior +4 more
TL;DR: Assessment of coffee leaf miner and its predation by wasps in commercial organic coffee plantings shaded with leucaena or intercropped with pigeon pea found fewer coffee leaf miners and fewer mines per leaf than in shaded plantings withLeucaena.
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