Fighting insect pests is a major challenge for agriculture worldwide, and biological control
and integrated pest management constitute well‐recognised, cost‐effective ways to prevent …

Modern vineyards, characterized by monoculture and landscape simplicity, face a multitude
of pest management issues, including heightened pest and disease pressure, reliance on …

The top-down suppression of pest insects by their natural enemies, such as insectivorous
bats, represents an important ecosystem service in agricultural systems. Recognizing the …

Recent research has confirmed the efficiency of insectivorous bats as pest suppressors,
underlining the ecological services they offer in agroecosystems. Therefore, some efforts try …

Although most predators are generalists, the majority of studies on the association between
prey availability and prey consumption have focused on specialist predators. To investigate …

Ecological theory postulates that niches of co‐occurring species must differ along some
ecological dimensions in order to allow their stable coexistence. Yet, many biological …

Our understanding of trophic interactions of small insectivorous mammals has been
drastically improved with the advent of DNA metabarcoding. The technique has continued to …

Organic farming is an essential component of sustainable agriculture that can help maintain
biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, providing benefits for both human well-being and …

Bats are prodigious consumers of agricultural and forest pests, and are, therefore, a natural
asset for agricultural productivity, suppressing populations of such pests. This study provides …

There is growing evidence about the role of insectivorous bats against agricultural pests in
various crops. Nevertheless, little research addressed the aggregational and functional …