Cover crops support arthropod predator activity with variable effects on crop damage during transition to organic management

Cover Crop Species and Management Influence Predatory Arthropods and Predation in an Organically Managed, Reduced-Tillage Cropping System

(2018) Ariel N Rivers et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes

(2017) Elinor M. Lichtenberg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Methods to identify the prey of invertebrate predators in terrestrial field studies

(2017) Klaus Birkhofer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Optimizing High-Residue Cultivation Timing and Frequency in Reduced-Tillage Soybean and Corn

(2016) C. L. Keene et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Pesticide-Induced Stress in Arthropod Pests for Optimized Integrated Pest Management Programs

(2016) R.N.C. Guedes et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Increased Risk of Insect Injury to Corn Following Rye Cover Crop

(2016) Mike W. Dunbar et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Meta-analysis reveals that seed-applied neonicotinoids and pyrethroids have similar negative effects on abundance of arthropod natural enemies

(2016) Margaret R. Douglas et al.   PeerJ

Tillage compromises weed seed predator activity across developmental stages

(2015) Carmen K. Blubaugh et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

The Influence of Habitat Manipulations on Beneficial Ground-Dwelling Arthropods in a Southeast US Organic Cropping System

(2015) A. F. Fox et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Cover crop and tillage intensities alter ground-dwelling arthropod communities during the transition to organic production

(2015) Randa Jabbour et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

For testing the significance of regression coefficients, go ahead and log-transform count data

(2015) Anthony R. Ives   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Fourteen years of evidence for positive effects of conservation agriculture and organic farming on soil life

(2014) Ludovic Henneron et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Neonicotinoid insecticide travels through a soil food chain, disrupting biological control of non-target pests and decreasing soya bean yield

(2014) Margaret R. Douglas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Non-trophic effects of litter reduce ant predation and determine caterpillar survival and distribution

(2013) Richard Karban et al.   OIKOS

Impacts of Organic Zero Tillage Systems on Crops, Weeds, and Soil Quality

(2013) Patrick Carr et al.   Sustainability

Conservation tillage issues: Cover crop-based organic rotational no-till grain production in the mid-Atlantic region, USA

(2012) Steven B. Mirsky et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Enhancing predation of a subterranean insect pest: A conservation benefit of winter vegetation in agroecosystems

(2011) Jonathan G. Lundgren et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Arable weeds in organically managed wheat fields foster carabid beetles by resource- and structure-mediated effects

(2011) Eva Diehl et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Predation by Pterostichus melanarius (Illiger) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) on immature Rhagoletis mendax Curran (Diptera: Tephritidae) in semi-field and field conditions

(2011) J.M. Renkema et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

A meta-analysis of crop pest and natural enemy response to landscape complexity

(2011) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Effects of a Winter Cover Crop on Diabrotica virgifera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Populations and Beneficial Arthropod Communities in No-Till Maize

(2011) Jonathan G. Lundgren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Conventional and Seed-Based Insect Management Strategies Similarly Influence Nontarget Coleopteran Communities in Maize

(2011) T. W. Leslie et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Assessing the effect of the time since transition to organic farming on plants and butterflies

(2011) Dennis Jonason et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Cover Crops and Disturbance Influence Activity-Density of Weed Seed Predators Amara aenea and Harpalus pensylvanicus (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

(2011) Meredith J. Ward et al.   WEED SCIENCE

Organic agriculture promotes evenness and natural pest control

(2010) David W. Crowder et al.   NATURE

Use of a Rolled-rye Cover Crop for Weed Suppression in No-Till Soybeans

(2010) Ruth A. Mischler et al.   WEED TECHNOLOGY

Subsidy from the detrital food web, but not microhabitat complexity, affects the role of generalist predators in an aboveground herbivore food web

(2008) Klaus Birkhofer et al.   OIKOS

Cover Crop Effects on the Activity-Density of the Weed Seed Predator Harpalus rufipes (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

(2008) Amanda F. Shearin et al.   WEED SCIENCE

Comparison of organic and conventional farms: challenging ecologists to make biodiversity functional

(2007) Deborah K Letourneau et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT