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Tree species selection for ecosystem services and resilience in agroforestry systems Open

Tom Staton, Kate Beauchamp, Alice Broome, Laurence Smith, Tom D. Breeze · 2025

Farmland trees and integrated pest management: A review of current knowledge and developing strategies for sustainable systems Open

Alison S. Scott‐Brown, Karen Rial‐Lovera, Michail L. Giannitsopoulos, R. J. Rickson, Tom Staton , et al. · 2025

Climate change and the withdrawal of several classes of agrochemicals from use are intensifying the challenges faced by food producers in controlling pests in crop systems. Integrated pest management (IPM), which uses a combination of pest…

Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry Open

Colin R. Tosh, Tom Staton, Ambrogio Costanzo, William D. Simonson · 2024

In-field trees are thought to buffer arable crops from climate extremes through the creation of microclimates that may reduce the impacts of heat, wind, and cold. Much less is known about how trees and their biotic interactions (e.g. with …

Leverage points for the uptake of organic food production and consumption in the United Kingdom Open

Tom Staton, Nicholas J. Davison, Sally Westaway, Lisa Arguile, N. R. Adams , et al. · 2024

Can morphological traits explain species‐specific differences in meta‐analyses? A case study of forest beetles Open

Tom Staton, Robbie D. Girling, Richard A. Redak, Sandy M. Smith, Jeremy D. Allison · 2023

Meta‐analyses have become a valuable tool with which to synthesize effects across studies, but in ecology and evolution, they are often characterized by high heterogeneity, where effect sizes vary between studies. Much of this heterogeneit…

Niche complementarity drives increases in pollinator functional diversity in diversified agroforestry systems Open

Tom Staton, Richard J. Walters, Tom D. Breeze, Jo Smith, Robbie D. Girling · 2022

Rising demand for food production poses a major threat to biodiversity by placing competing pressures on land. Diversified farming systems are one widely promoted nature-based solution to this challenge, which aim to integrate biodiversity…

Ozone Mitigates the Adverse Effects of Diesel Exhaust Pollutants on Ground-Active Invertebrates in Wheat Open

James M. W. Ryalls, Tom Staton, Neil Mullinger, Lisa M. Bromfield, B. Langford , et al. · 2022

There is growing evidence to demonstrate that air pollution is affecting invertebrates both directly (e.g., causing physiological stress responses) and indirectly (e.g., via changes in host plant chemistry and/or by disruption of communica…

Management to Promote Flowering Understoreys Benefits Natural Enemy Diversity, Aphid Suppression and Income in an Agroforestry System Open

Tom Staton, Richard J. Walters, Jo Smith, Tom D. Breeze, Robbie D. Girling · 2021

Agroforestry systems, where productive trees are integrated into agricultural land, can deliver benefits to biodiversity, natural pest control, and pollination, but the effects are highly variable. Recent advances in our understanding of f…

Evaluating a trait‐based approach to compare natural enemy and pest communities in agroforestry vs. arable systems Open

Tom Staton, Richard J. Walters, Jo Smith, Tom D. Breeze, Robbie D. Girling · 2021

Diversified farming systems, for example those that incorporate agroforestry elements, have been proposed as a solution that could maintain and improve multiple ecosystem services. However, habitat diversification in and around arable fiel…

A cost-effectiveness analysis of temperate silvoarable systems: what contribution do ecosystem services make? Open

Tom Staton, Richard J. Walters, Jo Smith, Helen Chesshire, Robbie D. Girling · 2018

Silvoarable systems have the potential to be an effective and productive form of sustainable agriculture, in part due to the enhancement of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. However, currently there is limited understanding o…

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