Pest management benefits of compost mulch in apple orchards

By M.W Brown, T. Tworkoski. 2004

135 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cell Biology, Insect Science, Plant Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/33933d7fca8e2037e5eea61b272d09f4102e3615

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In Insect Science

1. S. Bender
2. Marcel G. A. van der Heijden

In Plant Science

1. Cameron Wagg
2. S. Bender
3. Marcel G. A. van der Heijden

Citations in the corpus

• Long-term orchard groundcover management systems affect soil microbial communities and apple replant disease severity (2008, unknown): “Applying compost and mulch reduced arthropod and fungal pest pressure in a West Virginia, USA, orchard (Brown and Tworkoski 2004).”
• An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability. (2016, background): “The application of organic residues and composts have also been shown to reduce pest incidence [63] and weed pressure, and to favor soil biota [55].”