To manage agroecosystems for multiple ecosystem services, we need to know whether the
management of one service has positive, negative, or no effects on other services. We do …

Large-scale studies on community ecology are highly desirable but often difficult to
accomplish due to the considerable investment of time, labor and, money required to …

Human uncontrolled land use is the main cause of ecosystem degradation and increased
rock desertification in karst areas of Southern China. Landscape ecological quality …

In north western Europe, agricultural systems are generally managed to maximize the
potential delivery of provisioning ecosystem services. This has often been at the expense of …

The sustainable use of water resources bring nowadays challenges related to the
production and consumption phases of water intensive related goods such as food and …

Conservation biological control uses naturally occurring enemies to limit pest populations
and to increase agricultural sustainability. The olive is an important perennial crop in …

Habitat fragmentation is a complex process that affects ecological systems in diverse ways,
altering everything from population persistence to ecosystem function. Despite widespread …

Understanding native natural enemy impacts on the invasive brown marmorated stink bug,
Halyomorpha halys (Stål), offers insight into the population dynamics of this invasive pest …

Abundance of predators in crops can be increased by augmenting the adjacent non-crop
vegetation, with associated environmental benefits from reduced chemical inputs and …

Background Plant parasitic nematodes are harmful to agricultural crops and plants, and may
cause severe yield losses. Cinnamaldehyde, a volatile, yellow liquid commonly used as a …