Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition (2018)
Journal Article
Karp, D. S., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Meehan, T. D., Martin, E. A., DeClerck, F., Grab, H., …Zou, Y. (2018). Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(33), E7863-E7870. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800042115

The idea that noncrop habitat enhances pest control and represents a win–win opportunity to conserve biodiversity and bolster yields has emerged as an agroecological paradigm. However, while noncrop habitat in landscapes surrounding farms sometimes b... Read More about Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition.

Link flexibility: Evidence for environment-dependent adaptive foraging in a food web time-series (2016)
Journal Article
Henri, D. C., & van Veen, F. J. F. (2016). Link flexibility: Evidence for environment-dependent adaptive foraging in a food web time-series. Ecology, 97(6), 1381-1387. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0827.1

Temporal variability in the distribution of feeding links in a food web can be an important stabilising factor for these complex systems. Adaptive foraging and prey choice have been hypothesised to cause this link flexibility as organisms adjust thei... Read More about Link flexibility: Evidence for environment-dependent adaptive foraging in a food web time-series.

Natural vegetation benefits synergistic control of the three main insect and pathogen pests of a fruit crop in southern Africa (2015)
Journal Article
Henri, D. C., Jones, O., Tsiattalos, A., Thébault, E., Seymour, C. L., & van Veen, F. J. F. (2015). Natural vegetation benefits synergistic control of the three main insect and pathogen pests of a fruit crop in southern Africa. The journal of applied ecology, 52(4), 1092-1101. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12465

Summary Most studies of the potential for natural habitat to improve agricultural productivity have been conducted in transformed, temperate regions, but little is known of the importance of agroecosystem services in biodiverse developing countries.... Read More about Natural vegetation benefits synergistic control of the three main insect and pathogen pests of a fruit crop in southern Africa.