Increasing plant diversity with border crops reduces insecticide use and increases crop yield in urban agriculture

Increasing plant diversity with border crops reduces insecticide use and increases crop yield in urban agriculture

Urban agriculture is making an increasing contribution to food security in large cities around the world. The potential contribution of biodiversity to ecological intensification in urban agricultural systems has not been investigated. We present monitoring data collected from rice fields in 34 comm...

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Main Authors: Nian-Feng Wan, You-Ming Cai, Yan-Jun Shen, Xiang-Yun Ji, Xiang-Wen Wu, Xiang-Rong Zheng, Wei Cheng, Jun Li, Yao-Pei Jiang, Xin Chen, Jacob Weiner, Jie-Xian Jiang, Ming Nie, Rui-Ting Ju, Tao Yuan, Jian-Jun Tang, Wei-Dong Tian, Hao Zhang, Bo Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-05-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
Chinese cabbage
eggplant
maize
rice
soybean
predator
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/35103

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