An ecological future for weed science to sustain crop production and the environment. A review

C MacLaren, J Storkey, A Menegat, H Metcalfe… - Agronomy for …, 2020 - Springer
Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

[HTML][HTML] Agro-ecological options for fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda JE Smith) management: Providing low-cost, smallholder friendly solutions to an invasive …

RD Harrison, C Thierfelder, F Baudron… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fall armyworm (FAW), a voracious agricultural pest native to North and South America, was
first detected on the African continent in 2016 and has subsequently spread throughout the …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of climate change on insect pest biology and ecology: Implications for pest management strategies, crop production, and food security

B Subedi, A Poudel, S Aryal - Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The explosive expansion of the global population and technological progress has greatly
influenced agriculture and food production. However, this progress is threatened by climate …

The disproportionate value of 'weeds' to pollinators and biodiversity

NJ Balfour, FLW Ratnieks - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural intensification has been implicated in global biodiversity declines. In the
European Union, agri‐environmental schemes are designed to address this. For pollinating …

Nectar accessibility determines fitness, flower choice and abundance of hoverflies that provide natural pest control

PCJ van Rijn, FL Wäckers - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In modern agricultural landscapes, many organisms providing ecosystem services such as
pollination and natural pest control are likely constrained by shortage of nectar and/or pollen …

Organic Agriculture 3.0 is innovation with research

G Rahmann, M Reza Ardakani, P Bàrberi, H Boehm… - Organic agriculture, 2017 - Springer
Organic agriculture can and should play an important role in solving future challenges in
producing food. The low level of external inputs combined with knowledge on sustainablity …

Mapping and monitoring high nature value farmlands: challenges in European landscapes

A Lomba, C Guerra, J Alonso, JP Honrado… - Journal of environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
The importance of low intensity farming for the conservation of biodiversity throughout
Europe was acknowledged early in the 1990s when the concept of 'High Nature Value …

Weed-insect pollinator networks as bio-indicators of ecological sustainability in agriculture. A review

O Rollin, G Benelli, S Benvenuti, A Decourtye… - Agronomy for …, 2016 - Springer
The intensification of agricultural practices contributes to the decline of many taxa such as
insects and wild plants. Weeds are serious competitors for crop production and are thus …

Response of pest control by generalist predators to local‐scale plant diversity: a meta‐analysis

AG Dassou, P Tixier - Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the effects of plant diversity on the control of herbivores is important for
understanding agricultural sustainability. Recent studies have investigated the relationships …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity decline with increasing crop productivity in agricultural fields revealed by satellite remote sensing

AM Abdi, R Carrié, W Sidemo-Holm, Z Cai… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing land-use intensity is a main driver of biodiversity loss in farmland, but measuring
proxies for land-use intensity across entire landscapes is challenging. Here, we develop a …