Cross-crop benefits : developing crop combinations to promote conservation biological pest control

In agroecosystems, conservation biological control is often constrained by low availability of pollen and nectar. Although floral resources can be integrated into agricultural systems, this usually requires sacrifice of productive land. This thesis describes experiments which test the influence of f...

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Main Author: Key, Georgina
Published: Lancaster University 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658572