Opportunities for biodiversity gains under the world's largest reforestation programme

F Hua, X Wang, X Zheng, B Fisher, L Wang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Reforestation is a critical means of addressing the environmental and social problems of
deforestation. China's Grain-for-Green Program (GFGP) is the world's largest reforestation …

Approaches and mechanisms for ecologically based pest management across multiple scales

ZH Zhao, GVP Reddy, C Hui, BL Li - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2016 - Elsevier
The past 50 years have seen substantial change of agroecosystems in the world, including
an intensified use of agrochemicals and expansion of cropland, resulting in a rapid loss of …

Assessing landscape ecological vulnerability to riverbank erosion in the Middle Brahmaputra floodplains of Assam, India using machine learning algorithms

N Bhuyan, H Sajjad, TK Saha, Y Sharma, M Masroor… - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Riverbank erosion is one of the most catastrophic hazards that renders floodplains
vulnerable across the world vulnerable. It creates a significant negative impact on the …

[HTML][HTML] Intercrop** sunflower and soybean in intensive farming systems: evaluating yield advantage and effect on weed and insect assemblages

EB de la Fuente, SA Suárez, AE Lenardis… - … -Wageningen Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification has encouraged both landscape homogenization and biodiversity
decline in agro-ecosystems. Intercrop** may over yield sole crops and simultaneously …

Research progress on biodiversity in the rural landscape

S Chen, Y Zhang - Biodiversity Science, 2021 - biodiversity-science.net
Background & Aims: Rural landscapes provide support for a high degree of biodiversity due
to the symbiotic relationship between humanity and nature in these complex ecosystems …

A real‐world implementation of a nationwide, long‐term monitoring program to assess the impact of agrochemicals and agricultural practices on biodiversity

C Andrade, A Villers, G Balent, A Bar‐Hen… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity has undergone a major decline throughout recent decades, particularly in
farmland. Agricultural practices are recognized to be an important pressure on farmland …

Coccinellid response to landscape composition and configuration

J Megan Woltz, DA Landis - Agricultural and Forest …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Arthropod natural enemies provide valuable pest suppression in agricultural landscapes.
Natural enemy abundance and diversity within a given crop, in turn, have frequently been …

[BOOK][B] Agroecology: Leading the transformation to a just and sustainable food system

SR Gliessman, VE Méndez, VM Izzo, EW Engles - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Agroecology is at the forefront of transforming our food systems. This bestselling textbook
provides the essential foundation for understanding this transformation in all its components …

Selecting native perennial plants for ecological intensification in Mediterranean greenhouse horticulture

E Rodríguez, M González, D Paredes… - Bulletin of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Natural control by predators and parasitoids provides an important and often unnoticed
ecosystem service to agricultural landscapes by reducing pest populations in crops. The …

Effects of local characteristics and landscape patterns on plant richness: A multi-scale investigation of multiple dispersal traits

Z Li, H Han, H You, X Cheng, T Wang - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant species distributions are determined by various factors (including the dispersal modes
and the complex physical environment) across multiple spatial scales, in which the dispersal …