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List of works by Deborah K. Letourneau

A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes

scientific article

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Ants, Stem-Borers, and Fungal Pathogens: Experimental Tests of a Fitness Advantage in Piper Ant-Plants

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Assessing Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation as a Control Tactic for Delia radicum (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) in California Brussels Sprouts

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Avian conservation practices strengthen ecosystem services in California vineyards

scientific article

Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems

article

Bt crops: predicting effects of escaped transgenes on the fitness of wild plants and their herbivores.

scientific article published on October 2003

Can Climate Change Trigger Massive Diversity Cascades in Terrestrial Ecosystems?

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Cenocladamide, a dihydropyridone alkaloid from Piper cenocladum

scientific article

Code of ant-plant mutualism broken by parasite

scientific article published on April 1990

Comparison of organic and conventional farms: challenging ecologists to make biodiversity functional

scientific article published in 2008

Conservation biology

scientific article

Coping with Enemy-Filled Space: Herbivores on Endospermum in Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in 1993

Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Density Patterns of Piper Ant-Plants and Associated Arthropods: Top-Predator Trophic Cascades in a Terrestrial System?1

scientific article published in 1998

Disturbance, Resources, and Exotic Plant Invasion: Gap Size Effects in a Redwood Forest

article

Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

EXPERIMENTAL TEST IN LOWLAND TROPICAL FOREST SHOWS TOP-DOWN EFFECTS THROUGH FOUR TROPHIC LEVELS

scientific article (publication date: July 1998)

Effects of Natural Enemy Biodiversity on the Suppression of Arthropod Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

Effects of experimental design and nitrogen on cabbage butterfly oviposition

scientific article published in August 1989

Experimental Test in Lowland Tropical Forest Shows Top-Down Effects through Four Trophic Levels

scientific article published in 1998

Habitat eradication and cropland intensification may reduce parasitoid diversity and natural pest control services in annual crop fields

article

Herbivores on a dominant understory shrub increase local plant diversity in rain forest communities

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

INDIRECT EFFECTS OF A TOP PREDATOR ON A RAIN FOREST UNDERSTORY PLANT COMMUNITY

scientific article published in 2004

Mechanisms of predator accumulation in a mixed crop system

scientific article published in 1990

Novel Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions

article by Geoffrey Kite et al published 1990 in Kew Bulletin

Novel Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions.

scientific article published in 1989

Parasitism rates and sex ratios of a parasitoid wasp: effects of herbivore and plant quality

scientific article

Passive aggression: An alternative hypothesis for the Piper-Pheidole association

scientific article

Perennial habitat fragments, parasitoid diversity and parasitism in ephemeral crops

article

Plant Fitness Assessment for Wild Relatives of Insect Resistant Bt-Crops

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Plant fitness assessment for wild relatives of insect resistant crops

scientific article published on 22 January 2009

Relative Densities of Natural Enemy and Pest Insects Within California Hedgerows

scientific article published on August 1, 2013

Relative strengths of top-down and bottom-up forces in a tropical forest community

scientific article

Simple-but-sound methods for estimating the value of changes in biodiversity for biological pest control in agriculture

scientific article published in 2015

Synergistic effects of three Piper amides on generalist and specialist herbivores

scientific article

The Enemies Hypothesis: Tritrophic Interactions and Vegetational Diversity in Tropical Agroecosystems

scientific article published on 01 December 1987

The implications of habitat management on the population viability of the endangered Ohlone tiger beetle (Cicindela ohlone) metapopulation

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The role of food retailers in improving resilience in global food supply

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Top-down and bottom-up diversity cascades in detrital vs. living food webs

scientific article published in 2002

Trade-offs in antiherbivore defenses in Piper cenocladum: ant mutualists versus plant secondary metabolites

scientific article published in March 2001

Trophic cascades in a complex terrestrial community

scientific article

What Risk Assessments of Genetically Modified Organisms Can Learn from Institutional Analyses of Public Health Risks

scientific article published on November 4, 2012