Intensive agriculture causes land degradation and other environmental problems, such as
pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, biodiversity decline, and greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Habitat management involving manipulation of farmland vegetation can exert direct
suppressive effects on pests and promote natural enemies. Advances in theory and practical …

At the global scale, vineyards are usually managed intensively to optimize wine production
without considering possible negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) …

Background Unravelling domestication processes is crucial for understanding how species
respond to anthropogenic pressures, forecasting crop responses to future global changes …

A 3-year experiment compared in an olive orchard the effect of different cover crops'
composition on runoff, water erosion, diversity of annual plants, and arthropod communities …

Disentangling the effects of plant diversity on the control of herbivores is important for
understanding agricultural sustainability. Recent studies have investigated the relationships …

Biological control has long been considered a potential alternative to pesticidal strategies for
pest management but its impact and level of use globally remain modest and inconsistent. A …

Tree crops cover a large area of European landscape, 13.3 million hectares, with olive,
grapes, nuts and almonds been the most extended and mostly concentrated in …

The impact of agricultural practices and soil management on the communities of arthropods
living in the agricultural landscape is acknowledged as a critical issue by the literature, and it …

The meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae; Linnaeus, 1758),
is considered the main vector in the ongoing Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in the olive groves …