Douglas, Margaret R., Chang, Jan, Begum, Kohinoor, Subramanian, Sevgan, Tooker, John F., Alam, Syed Nurul, and Ramasamy, Srinivasan

Lablab bean (Lablab purpureus) is a popular vegetable crop in Bangladesh, but farmers growing this crop experience significant losses to insect pests despite heavy reliance on conventional insecticides. We conducted field...

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Schipanski, Meagan E., Barbercheck, Mary, Tooker, John F., White, Charlie, Douglas, Margaret R., Finney, Denise M., Haider, Kristin, Kaye, Jason P., Kemanian, Armen R., Mortensen, David A., and Ryan, Matthew R.

Cropping systems that provide ecosystem services beyond crop production are gaining interest from farmers, policy makers and society at large, yet we lack frameworks to evaluate and manage for multiple ecosystem services. Using...

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Busch, Anna K., Douglas, Margaret R., Malcolm, Glenna M., Karsten, Heather D., and Tooker, John F.

In the United States, current crop production often favors simplified rotations of maize and soybeans in conjunction with a heavy reliance on synthetic inputs that consequently degrade environmental health and increase...

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Douglas, Margaret R. and Tooker, John F.

Neonicotinoids are the most widely used class of insecticides worldwide, but patterns of their use in the U.S. are poorly documented, constraining attempts to understand their role in pest management and potential nontarget...

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Douglas, Margaret R. and Tooker, John F.

Background:
Seed-applied neonicotinoids are widely used in agriculture, yet their effects on non-target species remain incompletely understood. One important group of non-target species is arthropod natural enemies...

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Douglas, Margaret R., Rohr, Jason R., and Tooker, John F.

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1. Neonicotinoids are the most widely used insecticides world-wide, but their fate in the environment remains unclear, as does their potential to influence non-target species and the roles they play in...

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Tooker, John F., Douglas, Margaret R., and Krupke, Christian H.

Core Ideas: Recent educational offerings incompletely addressed neonicotinoid seed coatings.
These insecticidal coatings are common on corn, soybean, and other crop seeds.
Current use patterns violate core principles of...

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Douglas, Margaret R. and Tooker, John F.

As acreage of row crops managed with conservation tillage increases, more growers are encountering slugs, elevating their importance as crop pests. Slugs can eat virtually all crops and they inflict most of their damage during...

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Kammerer, Melanie, Goslee, Sarah C., Douglas, Margaret R., Tooker, John F., and Grozinger, Christina M.

Wild bees, like many other taxa, are threatened by land‐use and climate change, which, in turn, jeopardizes pollination of crops and wild plants. Understanding how land‐use and climate factors interact is critical to predicting...

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