Insects play a key role in the regulation and dynamics of many ecosystem services (ES).
However, this role is often assumed, with limited or no experimental quantification of its real …

The conversion of natural forest to oil palm plantation is a major current threat to the
conservation of biodiversity in South East Asia. Most animal taxa decrease in both species …

Recent reports of local extinctions of arthropod species, and of massive declines in
arthropod biomass, point to land-use intensification as a major driver of decreasing …

In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating
pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios …

With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few
decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring …

Simple Summary This paper provides an overview of the key issues concerning the role of
edible insects in sustainable feed production and environmentally friendly agriculture. The …

1. The resource concentration hypothesis predicts that specialist insect herbivores attain
higher loads (density per unit mass of the host-plant species) when their food plants grow in …

Perennial vegetation can provide multiple ecosystem services essential for sustainable
production more effectively than production systems based on annual crops. However, the …

In the field of nanoscience and nanobiotechnology, the use of plant extracts in synthesising
metal sulphide nanoparticles has lately come to light as an intriguing issue with several …

Agricultural intensification can affect biodiversity and related ecosystem services such as
biological control, but large‐scale experimental evidence is missing. We examined aphid …