Fighting insect pests is a major challenge for agriculture worldwide, and biological control
and integrated pest management constitute well‐recognised, cost‐effective ways to prevent …

Bats play crucial ecosystem services as seed dispersers, pollinators, controllers of insects,
and nutrient recyclers. However, there has not been a thorough global review evaluating …

The diverse functional roles of over 6,000 species of extant mammals that range in body size
across eight orders of magnitude, from blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) to tiny …

Ecosystem services are the benefits obtained from the environment that increase human
well‐being. Economic valuation is conducted by measuring the human welfare gains or …

White-nose syndrome (WNS) and the increased development of wind-power facilities are
threatening populations of insectivorous bats in North America. Bats are voracious predators …

Biological control is an underlying pillar of integrated pest management, yet little focus has
been placed on assigning economic value to this key ecosystem service. Setting biological …

The earth is now subject to climate change and habitat deterioration on unprecedented
scales. Monitoring climate change and habitat loss alone is insufficient if we are to …

In agroecosystems worldwide, bats are voracious predators of crop pests and may provide
services to farmers worth billions of US dollars. However, such valuations make untested …

Bats suppress insect populations in agricultural ecosystems, yet the question of whether
bats initiate trophic cascades in forests is mainly unexplored. We used a field experiment to …

The interaction between agricultural production and wildlife can shape, and even condition,
the functioning of both systems. In this study, we i) explored the degree to which a …