The ability for urban ecosystems to deliver provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting
services is vital for the health, sustainability, and resilience of urban environments. The …

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 …

Natural enemy biodiversity reflects both the number of species attacking pests (species
richness) and their relative abundances (species evenness). Recent experimental work …

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) emerged as a pest control framework promoting
sustainable intensification of agriculture, by adopting a combined strategy to reduce reliance …

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 …

Agricultural intensification has led to a drastic simplification and homogenization of
agroecosystems, causing biodiversity loss and an increased reliance on chemical pesticides …

Conservation biological control (CBC) seeks to promote the occurrence of natural enemies
of agricultural pests by managing habitat to provide key resources in and around farm fields …

Homogenisation and intensification of agricultural ecosystems are among the most
important threats to biodiversity, linked to declines in pollinators, soil biota and ecosystem …

Abstract Agricultural landscapes in North America have developed through complex
interactions of biophysical, socioeconomic and technological forces. While they can be …

Abstract Ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) provide services that are critical to food
production, and they fulfill an ecological role as a food source for predators. The richness …