Approaches to identify the value of seminatural habitats for conservation biological control

JM Holland, P Jeanneret, AC Moonen, W van Der Werf… - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The QuESSA project investigated the impact of seminatural habitats on a range of … studies,
pest control dependency on SNH was investigated in 18 study sites using standard methods. …

Structure, function and management of semi‐natural habitats for conservation biological control: a review of European studies

JM Holland, FJJA Bianchi, MH Entling… - Pest management …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… Natural enemies within each habitat were the most studied, with less … impact on pests was
rarely investigated. Most information was available for woody and herbaceous linear habitats, …

A functional overview of conservation biological control

GS Begg, SM Cook, R Dye, M Ferrante, P Franck… - Crop Protection, 2017 - Elsevier
… In the EU FP7 project PURE three contrasting cropping systems were investigated and
the response of pest and natural enemy populations to system-specific measures of habitat

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
… Shifts in CWM of body size across the entire flower-visitor community, which reflect dominance
of bees, for example, should also be considered when investigating the functional role of …

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

WE Snyder - Biological control, 2019 - Elsevier
… and growing disruption of biological control, that could be worthy of further investigation. Holt
(… numbers and biodiversity of natural enemy species could be a useful tool to dig further into …

Semi-natural habitats support biological control, pollination and soil conservation in Europe. A review

JM Holland, JC Douma, L Crowley, L James… - Agronomy for …, 2017 - Springer
… reported a positive effect of semi-natural habitats. There were … the most heavily investigated
semi-natural habitats, and the … the semi-natural habitats for the majority of methods, except …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation biological control of pests in the molecular era: new opportunities to address old constraints

GM Gurr, M You - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
… are now often used to complement morphological taxonomic methods for the identification
and study of biological control agents including microbes. A succession of molecular …

Local and landscape effects to biological controls in urban agriculture—a review

JE Arnold, M Egerer, KM Daane - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
… Further investigating these practices in UA can help provide ecologically … methods in insect
population studies. These sampling methods can be too broad when investigating biological

Manipulation of agricultural habitats to improve conservation biological control in South America

A Peñalver-Cruz, JK Alvarez-Baca, A Alfaro-Tapia… - Neotropical …, 2019 - Springer
… have been investigated in terms of its effect on pest control; however, landscape complexity
remains … biological control strategies and mechanical methods (sticky traps and light traps) to …

The good, the bad, and the risky: can birds be incorporated as biological control agents into integrated pest management programs?

K Garcia, EM Olimpi, DS Karp… - … Pest Management, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… net effects of birds, and discuss emerging tools that will help fill key knowledge gaps surrounding
the complex … Researchers have been investigating management strategies to control