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Practical Resources
- Cover Crops as Beneficial Insect Habitats: Observations from a Demonstration Organic Market Farm [PDF – 4.3 MB]
- Kerr Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. 2015
- Ecological Understanding of Insects in Organic Farming Systems
- eOrganic. 2011
- Establishing Native Pollinator Habitat Organically: Tips from our Experience at Kerr Centre [PDF - 3.0 MB]
- Kerr Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. 2015
- Natural Enemies in Organic Farming Systems
- eOrganic. 2011
- Optimizing buffer strips for improved ecosystem services
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. 2012
- Organic Farming for Bees: Conservation of Native Crop Pollinators in Organic Farming Systems [PDF - 3.6 MB]
- The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. 2007
- Pollinators in Organic Farming Systems
- eOrganic. 2011
- Promoting Native Bee Pollinators in Organic Farming Systems Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2015
- Providing Habitat for Wild Bees on Organic Farms Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2017
- The Role of Organic in Supporting Pollinator Health [PDF – 1.6 MB]
- Organic Center. 2015
- Using Native Flowering Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects
- eOrganic. 2013
- Wild Bee Monitoring, Identification, and Outreach in Organic Farming Systems Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2016
- Wild bees and pollination [PDF - 2.2 MB]
- FiBL. 2014
Scientific Results
- Abundance and Diversity of Wild Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) Found in Lowbush Blueberry Growing Regions of Downeast Maine
- Environmental Entomology (2015) 44: 975-989
- Agricultural intensification drives landscape-context effects on host–parasitoid interactions in agroecosystems
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2012) 49: 706-714
- Arthropod diversity as affected by agricultural management (organic and conventional farming), plant species, and landscape context
- Ecoscience (2009) 16: 492-501
- Assessing the effect of the time since transition to organic farming on plants and butterflies
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2011) 48: 543-550
- Comparing organic farming and land sparing: optimizing yield and butterfly populations at a landscape scale
- Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1358-1367
- Cover crop and tillage intensities alter ground-dwelling arthropod communities during the transition to organic production
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2016) 31: 361-374
- Crop and field boundary influences on the activity of a wide range of beneficial invertebrate groups on a split conventional/organic farm in northern England
- Bulletin of Entomological Research (2011) 101: 135-144
- Differences of floral resource use between honey bees and wild bees in an intensive farming system
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2013) 179: 78-86
- Do farming practices affect natural enemies at the landscape scale?
- Landscape Ecology (2015) 30: 125-140
- The effects of farming system and fertilisers on pests and natural enemies: A synthesis of current research
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2011) 141: 261-270
- Effects of Land Management Strategies on the Dispersal Pattern of a Beneficial Arthropod
- PLoS ONE (2013) 8(6): e66208
- Effects of organic farming on plant and arthropod communities: A case study in Mediterranean dryland cereal
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2011) 141: 193-201
- Effects of reflective groundcovers on ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) cropping systems
- Journal of Applied Entomology (2013) 137: 264-274
- Endemic pollinator response to organic vs. conventional farming and landscape context in the Cape Floristic Region biodiversity hotspot
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2012) 146: 162-167
- Field scale organic farming does not counteract landscape effects on butterfly trait composition
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2012) 158: 66-71
- Floral diversity increases beneficial arthropod richness and decreases variability in arthropod community composition
- Ecological Applications (2013) 23: 86-95
- A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems
- Ecology Letters (2013) 16: 584-599
- A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes
- Global Change Biology (2017) 23: 4946-4957
- Ground beetle species (Carabidae, Coleoptera) activity and richness in relation to crop type, fertility management and crop protection in a farm management comparison trial
- Annals of Applied Biology (2012) 161: 169-179
- Impact of agricultural management systems on carabid beetle communities and invertebrate weed seed predation
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2007) 118: 49-54
- Insect behavioural ecology and other factors affecting the control efficacy of agro-ecosystem diversification strategies
- Ecological Modelling (2005) 182: 199-216
- Investigating the effects of crop type, fertility management and crop protection on the activity of beneficial invertebrates in an extensive farm management comparison trial
- Annals of Applied Biology (2009) 155: 267-276
- Landscape and management effects on structure and function of soil arthropod communities in winter wheat
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2010) 137: 108-112
- Landscape features are a better correlate of wild plant pollination than agricultural practices in an intensive cropping system
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2015) 201: 51-57
- Landscape structure and habitat management differentially influence insect natural enemies in an agricultural landscape
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2012) 152: 40-49
- Land use at different spatial scales alters the functional role of web-building spiders in arthropod food webs
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2016) 219: 152-162
- Long-term effects of organic, conventional, and integrated crop systems on Carabids
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2011) 31: 515-524
- Management matters: A comparison of ant assemblages in organic and conventional vineyards
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2017) 246: 175-183
- Managing habitats on English farmland for insect pollinator conservation
- Biological Conservation (2015) 182: 215-222
- Organic cultivation reduces barrier effect of arable fields on species diversity
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2013) 164: 176-180
- Organic dairy farming: impacts on insect–flower interaction networks and pollination
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2011) 48: 561-569
- Organic farming enhances parasitoid diversity at the local and landscape scales
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2015) 52: 1102-1109
- Organic Farming Improves Pollination Success in Strawberries
- PLoS ONE (2012) 7(2): e31599
- Organic farming in isolated landscapes does not benefit flower-visiting insects and pollination
- Biological Conservation (2010) 143: 1860-1867
- Organic vs. conventional farming dichotomy: Does it make sense for natural enemies?
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2014) 194: 48-57
- Organic versus conventional systems in viticulture: Comparative effects on spiders and carabids in vineyards and adjacent forests
- Agricultural Systems (2015) 136: 61-69
- Plant biodiversity enhances bees and other insect pollinators in agroecosystems. A review
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2013) 33: 257-274
- Plant diversity affects behavior of generalist root herbivores, reduces crop damage, and enhances crop yield
- Ecological Applications (2013) 23: 1135-1145
- Relationships between beneficial invertebrates, field margin vegetation, and thrip damage in organic leek fields in eastern England
- Organic Agriculture (2011) 1: 45-54
- Responses of plant, insect and spider biodiversity to local and landscape scale management intensity in cereal crops and grasslands
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2012) 146: 130-136
- Responses of stream macroinvertebrates and ecosystem function to conventional, integrated and organic farming
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2010) 47: 1014-1025
- Road verges and winter wheat fields as resources for wild bees in agricultural landscapes
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2013) 173: 66-71
- Seed predation increases with ground beetle diversity in a Wisconsin (USA) potato agroecosystem
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2010) 137: 329-336
- Small-scale agricultural landscapes and organic management support wild bee communities of cereal field boundaries
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2018) 254:92-98
- The Value of Woody Hedgerows for Moth Diversity on Organic and Conventional Farms
- Environmental Entomology (2011) 40: 560-569
- Weeds for bees? A review
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2015) 35: 891-909
- Which carabid species benefit from organic agriculture? - a review of comparative studies in winter cereals from Germany and Switzerland
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2003) 98: 153-161
- Wild Bees Visiting Cucumber on Midwestern U.S. Organic Farms Benefit from Near-Farm Semi-Natural Areas
- Journal of Economic Entomology (2013) 106: 97-106