Search Results - "Varah, Alexa"

Acting pre-emptively reduces the long-term costs of managing herbicide resistance by Varah, Alexa, Ahodo, Kwadjo, Childs, Dylan Z., Comont, David, Crook, Laura, Freckleton, Robert P., Goodsell, Rob, Hicks, Helen L., Hull, Richard, Neve, Paul, Norris, Ken

“…Globally, pesticides improve crop yields but at great environmental cost, and their overuse has caused resistance. This incurs large financial and production…”
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The costs of human-induced evolution in an agricultural system by Varah, Alexa, Ahodo, Kwadjo, Coutts, Shaun R., Hicks, Helen L., Comont, David, Crook, Laura, Hull, Richard, Neve, Paul, Childs, Dylan Z., Freckleton, Robert P., Norris, Ken

“…Pesticides have underpinned significant improvements in global food security, albeit with associated environmental costs. Currently, the yield benefits of…”
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Adapting genetic algorithms for multifunctional landscape decisions: A theoretical case study on wild bees and farmers in the UK by Knight, Ellen, Balzter, Heiko, Breeze, Tom D., Brettschneider, Julia, Girling, Robbie D., Hagen‐Zanker, Alex, Image, Mike, Johnson, Colin G., Lee, Christopher, Lovett, Andrew, Petrovskii, Sergei, Varah, Alexa, Whelan, Mick, Yang, Shengxiang, Gardner, Emma

“…Spatial modelling approaches to aid land‐use decisions which benefit both wildlife and humans are often limited to the comparison of pre‐determined landscape…”
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Temperate agroforestry systems provide greater pollination service than monoculture by Varah, Alexa, Jones, Hannah, Smith, Jo, Potts, Simon G.

“…Higher pollination service in agroforestry than in monoculture farming in the UK. [Display omitted] •We studied wild pollinators in 6 paired UK agroforestry…”
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Enhanced biodiversity and pollination in UK agroforestry systems by Varah, Alexa, Jones, Hannah, Smith, Jo, Potts, Simon G

“…Monoculture farming systems have had serious environmental impacts such as loss of biodiversity and pollinator decline. The authors explain how temperate…”
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