Bugs at your service: recent insights into biocontrol and pollination in crop production systems
Invited symposium | 23 Aug 12:15 | Library

Authors: Bianchi, Felix;

Mobile arthropods provide important ecosystem services to support crop production, including pest suppression and pollination. These arthropods depend on the life-support functions provided by the landscape, but at the same time intensive management practices in the landscape may pose threats for these arthropods. In this presentation I will give an overview of the work of my group in the past years and highlight how pest, natural enemy and pollinator populations are influenced by interactions between resource availability, insecticide use and their movement. These insights will contribute to the development of design rules for biodiversity-friendly landscapes that support arthropod-based ecosystem services.