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Spatial scale analysis of landscape processes for digital soil mapping in Ireland [PDF]

, 2013
Soil is one of the most precious resources on Earth because of its role in storing and recycling water and nutrients essential for life, providing a variety of ecosystem services.
Cavazzi, Stefano
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Using network centrality measures to manage landscape connectivity [PDF]

, 2008
We use a graph-theoretical landscape modeling approach to investigate how to identify central patches in the landscape as well as how these central patches influence (1) organism movement within the local neighborhood, and (2) the dispersal of organisms ...
Bodin, Orjan, Estrada, Ernesto, Ramon y Cajal program Spain (Funder), Department for Reserch Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Funder), Swedish Reserach Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) (Funder), Swedish Research Council (Funder)   +5 more
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Hibernation of predatory arthropods in semi-natural habitats. [PDF]

, 2009
Non-crop habitats provide important resources for natural enemies. Many natural enemies hibernate in non-crop habitats, from which they may colonise arable fields in the spring.
Wäckers, Felix L., Wäckers, F.L., Bianchi, F.J.J.A., Geiger, Flavia, Felix L. Wäckers, Geiger, F., Bianchi, Felix J. J. A., Flavia Geiger, Felix J. J. A. Bianchi   +8 more
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Climate Change Promotes the Large-Scale Population Growth of Grapholita molesta (Busck) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) within Peach Orchards in China

Agronomy, 2022
Cosmopolitan agricultural herbivorous pests are provided with a wide range of potential hosts. Therefore, they have high carrying capacity, and can cause extremely severe damage in agroecosystems.
Hongchen Li, Qiulian Peng, Su Wang, Fan Zhang, Xiaojun Guo, Quan Jiang, Ningxing Huang, Hu Li   +7 more
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Non-crop habitats concurrently drive crop colonization by the millet head miner and regulation by natural enemies

Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022
Non-crop habitats, depending on their composition, can enhance the abundance and diversity of natural enemies of crop pests, but also at the same time provide resources to pests, thereby reducing the effect on pest incidence and resulting yield losses ...
Ahmadou Sow, Valérie Soti, Ibrahima Thiaw, Thierry Brévault   +3 more
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Does landscape-scale conservation management enhance the provision of ecosystem services? [PDF]

, 2014
Biodiversity conservation approaches are increasingly being implemented at the landscape-scale to support the maintenance of metapopulations and metacommunities.
Newton, Adrian, Cantarello, Elena, Hodder, Kathryn H., Perrella, L.   +3 more
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Surrounding landscape influences the abundance of insect predators in rice field

BMC Zoology, 2020
Background Natural enemy abundance in a crop plot depends on its prey presence and also influenced by habitats close to field. Landscape changes are also important factors driving pest and natural enemy population abundance in a specific crop field ...
M. P. Ali, M. M. M. Kabir, S. S. Haque, S. Afrin, N. Ahmed, Barry Pittendrigh, Xinghu Qin   +6 more
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Landscape and farm management influence generalist predators [PDF]

, 2002
Chemical pest control is currently the dominant form of pest management against insect pests in agroecosystems, but has negative side effects. Biological control by specialist predators has been successful in greenhouses, but has not been successfully ...
Östman, Örjan
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Higher bee abundance, but not pest abundance, in landscapes with more agriculture on a late-flowering legume crop in tropical smallholder farms [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
Background Landscape composition is known to affect both beneficial insect and pest communities on crop fields. Landscape composition therefore can impact ecosystem (dis)services provided by insects to crops. Though landscape effects on ecosystem service
Cassandra Vogel, Timothy L. Chunga, Xiaoxuan Sun, Katja Poveda, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter   +4 more
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Spatial and temporal activity patterns among sympatric tree-roosting bat species in an agriculturally dominated great plains landscape.

PLoS ONE, 2023
In agroecosystems, bats can provide a critical ecosystem service by consuming night-flying insect pests. However, many bats also face intense population pressures from human landscape modification, global change and novel diseases.
Christopher T Fill, Craig R Allen, John F Benson, Dirac Twidwell   +3 more
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