Publications by authors named "Megan Woltz"
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- Floral plantings, like flower strips and hedgerows, are important for improving agricultural ecosystems by providing services such as pest control and pollination, but research on their effectiveness is limited.
- In a study, flower strips were found to improve pest control services by 16% on average, while the impact on crop pollination and yield varied.
- Key factors influencing effectiveness included the distance from plantings (pollination services decreased as distance increased) and the presence of older, more diverse flower strips, which enhanced pollination outcomes.
Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), are global economic pests that may co-occur on small fruits. We investigated whether fruit recently exposed to H. halys affected subsequent host use by D.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe sustainability of ecosystem services depends on a firm understanding of both how organisms provide these services to humans and how these organisms will be altered with a changing climate. Unquestionably a dominant feature of most ecosystems, invertebrates affect many ecosystem services and are also highly responsive to climate change. However, there is still a basic lack of understanding of the direct and indirect paths by which invertebrates influence ecosystem services, as well as how climate change will affect those ecosystem services by altering invertebrate populations.
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