In recent years, the conservation of wasps has gained attention as researchers and conservationists recognize their crucial role in maintaining ecosystem balance. Efforts to protect their habitats, reduce pesticide use, and raise public awareness about their importance are underway. By promoting coexistence...
5. Importance in the Natural World Wasps play a crucial role in ecosystem health and balance. They are considered beneficial insects due to their predatory nature. Wasps primarily feed on other insects, including aphids, caterpillars, and flies. In this way, they help control pest populations, ...
As unsettling as the wasp’s method may seem, scientists say it may benefit the ecosystem, especially in reducing the fruit fly population. Shaw pointed out that this underscores the wasps' potential as natural control agents and their overall economic importance as biological control agents in cur...
However, few studies have investigated the importance of the intermediate trophic level occupied by small pelagic fishes. Methodology/Principal Findings: We investigated the numeric interactions among 10 species of seabirds, two species of pelagic fish and four groups of zooplankton in the North Sea ...
Background: In a ``wasp-waist'' ecosystem, an intermediate trophic level is expected to control the abundance of predators through a bottom-up interaction and the abundance of prey through a top-down interaction. Previous studies suggest that the North Sea is mainly governed by bottom-up intera...
Changing Ecosystem Dynamics in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Regulation Understanding the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up regulation of ecosystem structure is a fundamental ecological question, withimplications fo......
In any study on the importance of phosphorus in potato production it is essential to recognize the fundamental significance of the phosphate esters in plan... RAS Fisher 被引量: 1209发表: 1930年 A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees. The article discusses resear...
Olfaction is of particular importance for reproduction and survival of most insect species5. Hence, the disruption of olfaction by sublethal doses of insecticides might have severe consequences for the fitness of insects and severely compromise their contribution to ecosystem services3. Worldwide, the ...
2018). To determine the effect of a parasite on an ecosystem one must consider (1) the ecological importance of the host, (2) the parasite's fitness effect on the host, and (3) the frequency of infestation (Lafferty and Kuris 2012). Parasitism is often derived from mutualistic systems, ...
romana may be limited in northern California by low annual heat unit accumulation. The results show that physical manipulation of host plants improves short-term establishment and demonstrate the importance of using multiple monitoring methods to determine long-term establishment. Graphical abstract ...