Showing posts with label arthropod community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arthropod community. Show all posts

Aug 29, 2017

increasing diversity

Increasing plants diversity helps to attract other animals, including arthropods that seem to favor genetics-based interactions among plants, pathogens, and herbivores. See results from global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes (2017, Global Change Biology). Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)