Residential gardens are a principal component of urban green infrastructure throughout the
world and their potential positive contributions to biodiversity are increasingly recognised …

In recent decades, agricultural intensification has led to a loss of biodiversity and associated
ecosystem services such as natural pest control. Conservation biological control addresses …

Arthropod herbivores cause substantial economic costs that drive an increasing need to
develop environmentally sustainable approaches to herbivore control. Increasing plant …

Natural ecosystems provide a variety of services on which humans, and other organisms,
depend for survival and well-being. These ecosystem services can be categorized as …

Numerous studies have demonstrated that plant species diversity enhances ecosystem
functioning in terrestrial ecosystems, including diversity effects on insects (herbivores …

In the face of growing urban densification, green spaces in cities, such as gardens, are
increasingly important for biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, the influences of …

Background Plants grow in multi-species communities rather than monocultures. Yet most
studies on the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from plants in response to …

Managing agricultural environments in a way that maximises the provision of multiple
ecosystem services is a significant challenge in the development of sustainable and secure …

Livestock grazing is one of the most common management practices for grasslands and can
greatly affect their biodiversity. However, arthropod diversity response patterns to grazing …

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning can be partitioned into complementarity effects,
driven by many species, and selection effects, driven by few. Selection effects occur through …