A review of sampling and monitoring methods for beneficial arthropods in agroecosystems

KW McCravy - Insects, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Beneficial arthropods provide many important ecosystem services. In agroecosystems,
pollination and control of crop pests provide benefits worth billions of dollars annually …

A review of the sentinel prey method as a way of quantifying invertebrate predation under field conditions

GL Lövei, M Ferrante - Insect Science, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sentinel prey can provide a direct, quantitative measure of predation under field conditions.
Live sentinel prey provides more realistic data but rarely allows the partitioning of the total …

Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

T Roslin, B Hardwick, V Novotny, WK Petry, NR Andrew… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Biotic interactions underlie ecosystem structure and function, but predicting interaction
outcomes is difficult. We tested the hypothesis that biotic interaction strength increases …

Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity

Y Li, B Schmid, A Schuldt, S Li, MQ Wang… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Forests sustain 80% of terrestrial biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services.
Biodiversity experiments have demonstrated that plant diversity correlates with both primary …

The use and prospects of nonlethal methods in entomology

GL Lövei, M Ferrante - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Arthropods are declining globally, and entomologists ought to be in the forefront of
protecting them. However, entomological study methods are typically lethal, and we argue …

Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation

C Ocampo‐Ariza, J Vansynghel, D Bertleff… - Ecological …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bird‐and bat‐mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such
as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly …

Ants as indicators of environmental change and ecosystem processes

Y Tiede, J Schlautmann, DA Donoso, CIB Wallis… - Ecological …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Environmental stressors and changes in land use have led to rapid and dramatic species
losses. As such, we need effective monitoring programs that alert us not only to biodiversity …

Towards a standardized rapid ecosystem function assessment (REFA)

ST Meyer, C Koch, WW Weisser - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2015‏ - cell.com
Quantifying ecosystem functioning is important for both fundamental and applied ecological
research. However, there is currently a gap between the data available and the data needed …

Avian pest control in vineyards is driven by interactions between bird functional diversity and landscape heterogeneity

L Barbaro, A Rusch, EW Muiruri… - Journal of applied …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Insectivorous birds are increasingly recognized for the crucial pest control services they
provide to agroecosystems. While both the foraging activity and functional diversity of birds …

Methods to identify the prey of invertebrate predators in terrestrial field studies

K Birkhofer, H Bylund, P Dalin, O Ferlian… - Ecology and …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Predation is an interaction during which an organism kills and feeds on another organism.
Past and current interest in studying predation in terrestrial habitats has yielded a number of …