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How to get even with pests

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Organic farming supports higher biodiversity. Research involving the Colorado potato beetle shows that this increased diversity can deliver a better ecosystem service in the form of more effective pest control.

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  1. Lindsay A. Turnbull and Andy Hector are at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.,

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Turnbull, L., Hector, A. How to get even with pests. Nature 466, 36–37 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466036a

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