Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest
control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area …

Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change,
erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management …

Agricultural intensification has led to the decrease of the diversity of wild and domestic
pollinators. For instance, honeybees declined by 59% in 61 years in the USA. About 35% of …

Insect pollination constitutes an ecosystem service of global importance, providing
significant economic and aesthetic benefits as well as cultural value to human society …

The concept of ecosystem services was originally developed to illustrate the benefits that
natural ecosystems generate for society and to raise awareness for biodiversity and …

Multiple anthropogenic challenges threaten nature's contributions to human well-being.
Agricultural expansion and conventional intensification are degrading biodiversity and …

Food webs in agricultural systems are complex and trophic linkages are difficult to track
using conventional methodologies. Here, we review three alternative approaches that allow …

Disentangling the effects of plant diversity on the control of herbivores is important for
understanding agricultural sustainability. Recent studies have investigated the relationships …

To promote greater sustainability in agriculture, development of agroecology is increasingly
being invoked. What are the conditions for establishing agroecological production in tropical …

Ecosystems are rapidly degraded by anthropogenic pressures, affecting the provision of
ecosystem services. Therefore, it is increasingly important that we can quantify and manage …