Environmental ScienceBiologyAgricultural and Food Sciences

Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale

T. Tscharntke, R. Bommarco, Y. Clough, T. O. Crist, D. Kleijn, T. Rand, J. Tylianakis, S. V. Nouhuys, S. V. Nouhuys, S. Vidal

2007.12.1BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2007.08.006

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Complex landscapes characterized by highly connected crop–noncrop mosaics may be best for long-term conservation biological control and sustainable crop production, but experimental evidence for detailed recommendations to design the composition and configuration of agricultural landscapes that maintain a diversity of generalist and specialist natural enemies is still needed.

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TSCHARNTKE, T., et al. Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale. BIOLOGICAL CONTROL, 2007, 43: 294–309.