Search Results - "Dainese, Matteo"
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Complementarity among natural enemies enhances pest suppression
Published in Scientific reports (15-08-2017)“…Natural enemies have been shown to be effective agents for controlling insect pests in crops. However, it remains unclear how different natural enemy guilds…”
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The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2020)“…Floral plantings are promoted to foster ecological intensification of agriculture through provisioning of ecosystem services. However, a comprehensive…”
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Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2016)“…Mass‐flowering crops (MFCs) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in MFC fields and nearby semi‐natural habitats (SNHs)…”
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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-12-2018)“…Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological…”
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Plant genetic diversity affects multiple trophic levels and trophic interactions
Published in Nature communications (27-11-2022)“…Intraspecific genetic diversity is an important component of biodiversity. A substantial body of evidence has demonstrated positive effects of plant genetic…”
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Different effects of elevation, habitat fragmentation and grazing management on the functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic structure of mountain grasslands
Published in Perspectives in plant ecology, evolution and systematics (01-02-2015)“…Ecological theory suggests that several nested environmental filters, acting at different spatial scales, shape the assemblages of local plant species…”
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Understanding the pathways from biodiversity to agro-ecological outcomes: A new, interactive approach
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-10-2020)“…•Despite the high number of agro-ecological publications, few lead to outcomes.•The pathway to outcomes is explored through an interactive web-based tool.•The…”
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Global synthesis of effects of plant species diversity on trophic groups and interactions
Published in Nature plants (01-05-2020)“…Numerous studies have demonstrated that plant species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems, including diversity effects on…”
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Maintaining habitat diversity at small scales benefits wild bees and pollination services in mountain apple orchards
Published in Ecological solutions and evidence (01-04-2024)“…Landscape context influences wild bee abundance and diversity, alongside pollination‐related services. Growing evidence supports the positive effects of…”
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Using natural gradients to infer a potential response to climate change: an example on the reproductive performance of dactylis glomerata L
Published in Biology (Basel, Switzerland) (13-12-2012)“…An understanding of the climate conditions governing spatial variation in the reproductive performance of plants can provide important information about the…”
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Landscape simplification weakens the association between terrestrial producer and consumer diversity in Europe
Published in Global change biology (01-08-2017)“…Land‐use change is one of the primary drivers of species loss, yet little is known about its effect on other components of biodiversity that may be at risk…”
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Exploring patterns of beta‐diversity to test the consistency of biogeographical boundaries: A case study across forest plant communities of Italy
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-10-2019)“…Aim To date, despite their great potential biogeographical regionalization models have been mostly developed on descriptive and empirical bases. This paper…”
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Plant traits across different habitats of the Italian Alps: a comparative analysis between native and alien species
Published in Alpine botany (01-04-2012)“…While it is well known that the success of alien plants in new environments greatly depends on their functional traits, to date only a few other studies have…”
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Spillover of tachinids and hoverflies from different field margins
Published in Basic and applied ecology (01-02-2016)“…The introduction and conservation of field margins have been proposed as an intervention to counteract the decline in farmland biodiversity. However, how these…”
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Growth prediction for five tree species in an Italian urban forest
Published in Urban forestry & urban greening (2011)“…Modeling the environmental benefits of urban trees requires data which relate crown height, crown diameter, and leaf area to tree age or stem diameter (DBH)…”
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Relationship between landscape complexity and ecosystem services from the perspective of smallholder agroecosystems in China—A review
Published in Cell Reports Sustainability (01-02-2024)“…Ecosystem services such as pollination and natural pest control are crucial for sustainable agriculture and affected by landscape complexity. Landscape…”
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Altitudinal Shift of Tetrao urogallus in an Alpine Natura 2000 Site: Implications for Habitat Restoration
Published in Applied sciences (2019)“…Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus L.), a territorial galliform species, is known to prefer mature conifer stands with canopy gaps and a vigorous understory of…”
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Landscape metrics as functional traits in plants: perspectives from a glacier foreland
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (31-07-2017)“…Spatial patterns of vegetation arise from an interplay of functional traits, environmental characteristics and chance. The retreat of glaciers offers exposed…”
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Decline of three farmland pest species in rapidly urbanizing landscapes
Published in iScience (24-09-2021)“…Urbanization is a pressing challenge for earth’s humans because it is changing not only natural environments but also agricultural lands. Yet, the consequences…”
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Does residence time affect responses of alien species richness to environmental and spatial processes?
Published in NeoBiota (22-08-2012)“…One of the most robust emerging generalisations in invasion biology is that the probability of invasion increases with the time since introduction (residence…”
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