The maintenance of soil health in agro-ecosystems is essential for sustaining agricultural
productivity. Through its positive impacts on various soil physical and biological processes …

Conservation agriculture (CA) is based on minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover,
and crop rotation; it is promoted as a sustainable alternative to systems involving …

A three-year field experiment was carried out to assess the efficacy of various tillage and
residue management practices, as well as weed management approaches, in a rice–wheat …

Conserving natural enemies has become the cornerstone for sustainable pest management.
Conservation is often attained through habitat manipulation in order to create suitable …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

Ground beetles (carabids) constitute an important functional component of biodiversity in
agroecosystems, mainly because of their role as predators of pests, but also as consumers …

Human efforts to grow abundant food through the persistent use of resource-intensive
farming practices have resulted in declining soil health, and deterioration of ecosystem …

Frequent and intensive tillage can have negative effects on soil, including increasing risk of
erosion, oxidizing organic matter, and disrupting life cycles of soil organisms. Even though …

Despite efforts to eliminate weeds, they continue to thrive. Weed persistence is reliant upon
the soil seedbank. Knowledge of the soil seedbank is continually expanding, but with the …

Omnivorous predators are key contributors to biocontrol, but the relative importance and
interactive effects of ecological variables (eg, habitat and prey-or plant-based foods) that …