Decreased Functional Diversity and Biological Pest Control in Conventional Compared to Organic Crop Fields

Organic farming is one of the most successful agri-environmental schemes, as humans benefit from high quality food, farmers from higher prices for their products and it often successfully protects biodiversity. However there is little knowledge if organic farming also increases ecosystem services li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krauss, Jochen, Gallenberger, Iris, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097189/