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Natural enemy responses and pest control: Importance of local vegetation
Linda J. Thomson,Ary A. Hoffmann +1 more
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There was an increase in abundance of different groups of natural enemies when woody vegetation was present although these increases depended on size, and Predation of eggs of a vineyard insect pest, Epiphyas postvittana, was relatively higher in vineyards with either adjacent remnant forest or planted woodY vegetation.About:
This article is published in Biological Control.The article was published on 2010-02-01. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vegetation (pathology) & Pest control.read more
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Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta-analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops.
Gorm E. Shackelford,Peter Steward,Tim G. Benton,William E. Kunin,Simon G. Potts,Jacobus C. Biesmeijer,Jacobus C. Biesmeijer,Steven M. Sait +7 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that some pollinators and natural enemies seem to have compatible responses to complexity, and it might be possible to manage agroecosystems for the benefit of both.
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Water footprint assessment in the winemaking industry: a case study for a Romanian medium size production plant
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the water footprint assessment of one 750mL bottle of wine produced in a medium-size wine production plant in Romania, evaluated for a 4-year period with different precipitation regimes.
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Trophic disruption: a meta-analysis of how habitat fragmentation affects resource consumption in terrestrial arthropod systems.
TL;DR: This study conducts a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify the effects of habitat fragmentation and spatial habitat structure on resource consumption in terrestrial arthropod food webs and demonstrates widespread disruption of trophic interactions in fragmented habitats.
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Spatial scale of benefits from adjacent woody vegetation on natural enemies within vineyards
Linda J. Thomson,Ary A. Hoffmann +1 more
TL;DR: Management of vineyards where non-crop vegetation can be used to increase numbers and impact of beneficials are suggested, with recommendations for planting woody vegetation a minimum of 50 m from vineyard edges.
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Natural enemy impact on eggs of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in organic agroecosystems: A regional assessment
Emily C Ogburn,Ricardo Bessin,Christine Dieckhoff,Rachelyn Dobson,Matthew J. Grieshop,Kim A. Hoelmer,Clarissa R. Mathews,Jennifer Moore,Anne L. Nielsen,Kristin Poley,John Pote,Mary A. Rogers,Celeste Welty,James F. Walgenbach +13 more
TL;DR: This study found that parasitoids native to eastern US agroecosystems do not provide that service in this introduced region, and the greatest potential for biological control of H. halys may be via classical biological control by the Asian parasitoid Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead), which has recently been detected in both the eastern and western US.
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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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Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems
Bradley J. Cardinale,Diane S. Srivastava,J. Emmett Duffy,Justin P. Wright,Amy L. Downing,Mahesh Sankaran,Claire Jouseau +6 more
TL;DR: A formal meta-analysis of studies that have experimentally manipulated species diversity to examine how it affects the functioning of numerous trophic groups in multiple types of ecosystem suggests that the average effect of decreasing species richness is to decrease the abundance or biomass of the focal Trophic group, leading to less complete depletion of resources used by that group.
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Sustainable pest regulation in agricultural landscapes: a review on landscape composition, biodiversity and natural pest control
TL;DR: It is concluded that diversified landscapes hold most potential for the conservation of biodiversity and sustaining the pest control function and similar contributions of these landscape factors suggest that all are equally important in enhancing natural enemy populations.
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Foraging ranges of solitary bees
Achim Gathmann,Teja Tscharntke +1 more
TL;DR: These experiments showed that solitary bees have a rather small foraging range so local habitat structure appears to be of more importance than large-scale landscape structure, and all requirements for sustaining viable populations must be within this range.
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Habitat fragmentation, species loss, and biological control
Andreas Kruess,Teja Tscharntke +1 more
TL;DR: Manually established islands of red clover were colonized by most available herbivore species but few parasitoid species, and herbivores were greatly released from parasitism, experiencing only 19 to 60 percent of the parasitism of nonisolated populations.