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Relevance of the ecological traits of parasitoid wasps and nectariferous plants for conservation biological control: a hybrid meta-analysis.
Pest management science - 1 May 2020
Zhu Pingyang, Zheng Xusong, Xie Gang, Chen Guihua, Lu Zhongxian, Gurr Geoff
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BACKGROUND: Ecosystem services are key to human survival. In agriculture, they offer potential to intensify production while reducing reliance on hazardous inputs, including pesticides. Nectar plants can nourish natural enemies of pests and thereby promote the ecosystem service of biological control. To date, however, the selection of optimal plants has been reliant on laborious testing of multiple candidate...
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