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Nikola Pfauserová, Ondrej Slavík, Pavel Horký, Jitka Kolárová and Tomá? Randák
The introduction of non-native species and human-altered habitats are currently the main threats to freshwater ecosystems. Due to predation and competition, biological invaders can cause extinctions and imperil the status of native species, and this phen...
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Daniel Paredes, Sara Mendes and José Paulo Sousa
Chrysoperla carnea s.l., a vital predator in olive groves, plays a key role in reducing the reliance on pesticides. Despite its efficacy, habitat diversification at the landscape level can compromise its effectiveness as a generalist natural enemy, diver...
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Jovan Krndija, Aleksandar Ivezic, Ankica Sarajlic, Tijana Baro?evic, Boris Kuzmanovic, Kristina Petrovic, Isidora Stojacic and Branislav Trudic
The accessible literature covered in this paper commonly highlights psyllids as a significant group of insects affecting pear trees, posing a continual challenge for commercial orchards. With the development of modern pear cultivation systems, Cacopsylla...
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Noémie Gonzalez, Marc Fournier, Rosemarije Buitenhuis and Eric Lucas
Syrphine hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphinae) are important predators of aphids in agricultural crops. While the use of flowering plants to enhance their efficacy is well established, recent research has developed an artificial diet for adult hoverflies consi...
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Loredana Stabili, Stefano Piraino and Lucia Rizzo
Marine bioprospecting is a dynamic research field that explores the oceans and their biodiversity as noteworthy sources of new bioactive compounds. Anthozoans are marine animals belonging to the Cnidaria phylum characterized by highly specialized mechano...
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Elzbieta Wojciechowicz-Zytko and Edyta Wilk
The influence of different semi-natural surroundings adjacent to apple orchards on the occurrence of predatory syrphids and biological control of Aphis pomi Deg. and Dysaphis plantaginea Pass. was compared. Two methods of catching hoverflies were used: y...
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Ivana Lemos Souza, Hágabo Honorato de Paulo, Matheus Alves de Siqueira, Valmir Antonio Costa, Ana Paula Gonçalves da Silva Wengrat, Ana Lúcia Benfatti Gonzalez Peronti and Nilza Maria Martinelli
Several insect pests are related to the cultivation of conilon coffee, Coffea canephora (Rubiaceae), including (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha). Coccoids damage plants by sucking their sap, producing honeydew, and transmitting viruses. Parasitoids and predators ...
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James Slingsby, Beth E. Scott, Louise Kregting, Jason McIlvenny, Jared Wilson and Benjamin J. Williamson
Tidal energy is a rapidly developing area of the marine renewable energy sector that requires converters to be placed within areas of fast current speeds to be commercially viable. Tidal environments are also utilised by marine fauna (marine mammals, sea...
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Gaiya Feng, Jiongran Wen and Chengwei Fei
To achieve the low-cycle fatigue (LCF) lifetime prediction and reliability estimation of turbine blisks, a Marine Predators Algorithm (MPA)-based Kriging (MPA-Kriging) method is developed by introducing the MPA into the Kriging model. To obtain the optim...
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Hae-Young Choi and Sung Kim
Fish eggs have a wide range of predators. However, observing these predators is challenging, as is identifying fish eggs based on morphological traits. In this study, we observed hydroids, which are sessile organisms, consuming pelagic fish eggs. We cond...
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