Christoph Scherber
@cscherber.bsky.social
Deputy director
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Professor of Biodiversity Monitoring
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Christoph Scherber
@cscherber.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Multispecies crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment
In an agricultural field intercropping experiment, we manipulated crop diversity (0–3 crop species) and the input of agrochemicals. We found that insect biodiversity increases with crop diversity and...
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Insect apocalypse? No! Intercropping can be a solution: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....