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 …

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 …

Cotton hosts a variety of arthropod pests requiring intensive control mostly with insecticides,
which in turn may impact beneficial insects and the environment. Therefore, insect control in …

Highlights•Climate change effect-mitigating farming practices may also facilitate pest
control.•Practices can be used to control pest abundance and natural enemy …

Agricultural intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but the majority of studies
highlighting these threats come from industrialised agriculture in temperate countries of the …

The effectiveness of natural enemies to control pests can be enhanced through habitat
manipulation. However, due to the differences in their ecology, generalist and specialist …

Predation can be one of the key factors that determine abundance in insect herbivore
communities, and drive evolution of body size, and anti‐predator traits, including crypsis …

In human‐modified landscapes, important ecological functions such as predation are
negatively affected by anthropogenic activities, including the use of pesticides and habitat …

Predation on pest organisms is an essential ecosystem function supporting yields in modern
agriculture. However, assessing predation rates is intricate, and they can rarely be linked …

Recovery of animal‐dependent ecosystem functions is a key component of ecological
restoration on degraded tropical forest lands. One of these functions, regulation of …