Benefits and risks of intercropping for crop resilience and pest management

CP Huss, KD Holmes… - Journal of economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
To combat climate change, farmers must innovate through ecological intensification to boost
food production, increase resilience to weather extremes, and shrink the carbon footprint of …

Biopesticides and insect pollinators: Detrimental effects, outdated guidelines, and future directions

F Cappa, D Baracchi, R Cervo - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
As synthetic pesticides play a major role in pollinator decline worldwide, biopesticides have
been gaining increased attention to develop more sustainable methods for pest …

Give predators a complement: Conserving natural enemy biodiversity to improve biocontrol

WE Snyder - Biological control, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural enemy biodiversity reflects both the number of species attacking pests (species
richness) and their relative abundances (species evenness). Recent experimental work …

A functional overview of conservation biological control

GS Begg, SM Cook, R Dye, M Ferrante, P Franck… - Crop Protection, 2017 - Elsevier
Conservation biological control (CBC) is a sustainable approach to pest management that
can contribute to a reduction in pesticide use as part of an Integrated Pest Management …

Enhancing plant diversity in agricultural landscapes promotes both rare bees and dominant crop‐pollinating bees through complementary increase in key floral …

L Sutter, P Jeanneret, AM Bartual… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing key floral resources is essential to effectively mitigate the loss of pollinator
diversity and associated provisioning of pollination functions in agro‐ecosystems. However …

Chemical ecology of floral resources in conservation biological control

S Colazza, E Peri, A Cusumano - Annual Review of Entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Conservation biological control aims to enhance populations of natural enemies of insect
pests in crop habitats, typically by intentional provision of flowering plants as food resources …

History, current situation and challenges for conservation biological control

MW Shields, AC Johnson, S Pandey, R Cullen… - Biological Control, 2019 - Elsevier
Meeting the growing global demand for agricultural products requires the development and
use of ecologically-based strategies that will allow sustainable intensification based on …

Biological control of invasive stink bugs: review of global state and future prospects

E Conti, G Avila, B Barratt, F Cingolani… - Entomologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Invasive stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are responsible for high economic
losses to agriculture on a global scale. The most important species, dating from recent to old …

Actionable knowledge for ecological intensification of agriculture

W Geertsema, WAH Rossing, DA Landis… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological intensification of agriculture (EI) aims to conserve and promote biodiversity and
the sustainable use of associated ecosystem services to support resource‐efficient …

Managing biological control services through multi‐trophic trait interactions: review and guidelines for implementation at local and landscape scales

DJ Perović, S Gámez‐Virués, DA Landis… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological studies are increasingly moving towards trait‐based approaches, as the
evidence mounts that functions, as opposed to taxonomy, drive ecosystem service delivery …