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Felix J.J.A. Bianchi is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research encompasses a broad array of topics related to agricultural and environmental sciences, concentrating primarily on the intersection of plant and insect studies, agroecology, and ecosystem management.

The main fields of study that characterize Bianchi's work include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these, their contributions extend into several subfields such as Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research topics cover diverse areas including Plant and animal studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect and Pesticide Research, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems.

Frequent collaborators in Bianchi's research include Wopke van der Werf, W.A.H. Rossing, Yanhui Lu, Rogier P.O. Schulte, and Pablo Tittonell, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the field of sustainable agriculture and ecosystem analysis.

Bianchi has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in key academic journals. Predominant publication venues feature Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Applied Ecology, Landscape Ecology, and Ecological Economics.

Selected recent publications illustrate the scope and thematic focus of Bianchi's work:

  • Agroforestry systems can mitigate the impacts of climate change on coffee production: A spatially explicit assessment in Brazil, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Kicking the Habit: What Makes and Breaks Farmers' Intentions to Reduce Pesticide Use?, 2020, Ecological Economics
  • Neonicotinoids in global agriculture: evidence for a new pesticide treadmill?, 2020, Ecology and Society
  • Impact of agroecological management on plant diversity and soil-based ecosystem services in pasture and coffee systems in the Atlantic forest of Brazil, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Land use change drives the spatio-temporal variation of ecosystem services and their interactions along an altitudinal gradient in Brazil, 2020, Landscape Ecology

Best Publications

  • Sustainable pest regulation in agricultural landscapes: a review on landscape composition, biodiversity and natural pest control

    F.J.J.A Bianchi;C.J.H Booij;T Tscharntke

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

    Matteo Dainese;Emily A. Martin;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

    Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer;Timothy D. Meehan;Emily A. Martin

  • Structure, function and management of semi‐natural habitats for conservation biological control: A review of European studies

    John M. Holland;Felix J.J.A. Bianchi;Martin H. Entling;Anna Camilla Moonen

  • The landscape context of trophic interactions : insect spillover across the crop-noncrop interface

    Teja Tscharntke;Tatyana A. Rand;Felix J. J. A. Bianchi

  • Movement of entomophagous arthropods in agricultural landscapes: links to pest suppression.

    N.A. Schellhorn;F.J.J.A. Bianchi;C.L. Hsu

  • Herbivore-induced plant volatiles and tritrophic interactions across spatial scales.

    Yavanna Aartsma;Felix J. J. A. Bianchi;Wopke van der Werf;Erik H. Poelman

  • Effects of flower attractiveness and nectar availability in field margins on biological control by parasitoids

    Felix J.J.A. Bianchi;Felix L. Wäckers

  • Agroforestry systems can mitigate the impacts of climate change on coffee production: A spatially explicit assessment in Brazil

    L.C. Gomes;L.C. Gomes;F.J.J.A. Bianchi;I.M. Cardoso;R.B.A. Fernandes

  • Actionable knowledge for ecological intensification of agriculture

    Willemien Geertsema;Walter A H Rossing;Douglas A Landis;Felix J J A Bianchi

  • Kicking the Habit: What Makes and Breaks Farmers' Intentions to Reduce Pesticide Use?

    L. Bakker;J. Sok;W. van der Werf;F.J.J.A. Bianchi

  • Hibernation of predatory arthropods in semi-natural habitats

    Flavia Geiger;Felix L. Wäckers;Felix J. J. A. Bianchi

  • An experimental test of the independent action hypothesis in virus-insect pathosystems.

    Mark P. Zwart;Lia Hemerik;Jenny S. Cory;J. Arjan G.M. de Visser

  • Enhanced pest control in cabbage crops near forest in The Netherlands

    F. J. J. A. Bianchi;P. W. Goedhart;J. M. Baveco

  • The Effect of the Area and Configuration of Hibernation Sites on the Control of Aphids by Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Agricultural Landscapes: A Simulation Study

    Felix J. J. A. Bianchi;Wopke Van der Werf

  • Linking vegetation and soil functions during secondary forest succession in the Atlantic forest

    Heitor Mancini Teixeira;Heitor Mancini Teixeira;Irene Maria Cardoso;Felix J.J.A. Bianchi;Arthur da Cruz Silva

  • Diversity of cereal aphid parasitoids in simple and complex landscapes

    Ines M.G. Vollhardt;Teja Tscharntke;Felix L. Wäckers;Felix J.J.A. Bianchi;Felix J.J.A. Bianchi

  • Model evaluation of the function of prey in non-crop habitats for biological control by ladybeetles in agricultural landscapes

    Felix J.J.A. Bianchi;Wopke van der Werf

  • Root density and root biomass in pure and mixed forest stands of Douglas-fir and Beech.

    C.M.A. Hendriks;F.J.J.A. Bianchi

  • Landscape factors affecting the control of Mamestra brassicae by natural enemies in Brussels sprout

    F.J.J.A. Bianchi;W.K.R.E. van Wingerden;A.J. Griffioen;M. van der Veen

  • Understanding farm diversity to promote agroecological transitions

    Heitor Mancini Teixeira;Heitor Mancini Teixeira;Leonardo Van den Berg;Leonardo Van den Berg;Irene Maria Cardoso;Ardjan J. Vermue

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

    Matteo Dainese;Emily A. Martin;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • Managing ecosystem services in broadacre landscapes: what are the appropriate spatial scales?

    Nancy A. Schellhorn;Sarina Macfadyen;Felix J. J. A. Bianchi;David G. Williams

  • Neonicotinoids in global agriculture: evidence for a new pesticide treadmill?

    Lieneke Bakker;Wopke van der Werf;Pablo Tittonell;Kris A. G. Wyckhuys;Kris A. G. Wyckhuys;Kris A. G. Wyckhuys

Frequent Co-Authors

Wopke van der Werf
Wopke van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Nancy A. Schellhorn
Nancy A. Schellhorn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Rogier P.O. Schulte
Rogier P.O. Schulte Wageningen University & Research
Pablo Tittonell
Pablo Tittonell University of Groningen
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Just M. Vlak
Just M. Vlak Wageningen University & Research
W. van der Werf
W. van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Felix L. Wäckers
Felix L. Wäckers Lancaster University
Marc Corbeels
Marc Corbeels International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Erik H. Poelman
Erik H. Poelman Wageningen University & Research

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