{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["8(12)"],"submitter":["Sabatier R"],"pubmed_abstract":["Ecological intensification, i.e. relying on ecological processes to replace chemical inputs, is often presented as the ideal alternative to conventional farming based on an intensive use of chemicals. It is said to both maintain high yield and provide more robustness to the agroecosystem. However few studies compared the two types of management with respect to their consequences for production and robustness toward perturbation. In this study our aim is to assess productive performance and robustness toward diverse perturbations of a Cacao agroecosystem managed with two contrasting groups of strategies: one group of strategies relying on a high level of pesticides and a second relying on low levels of pesticides. We conducted this study using a dynamical model of a Cacao agroecosystem that"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pagination":["e80352"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3846552"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Production and robustness of a Cacao agroecosystem: effects of two contrasting types of management strategies."],"pmcid":["PMC3846552"],"pubmed_authors":["Sabatier R","Meyer K","Wiegand K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Production and robustness of a Cacao agroecosystem: effects of two contrasting types of management strategies.","description":"Ecological intensification, i.e. relying on ecological processes to replace chemical inputs, is often presented as the ideal alternative to conventional farming based on an intensive use of chemicals. It is said to both maintain high yield and provide more robustness to the agroecosystem. However few studies compared the two types of management with respect to their consequences for production and robustness toward perturbation. In this study our aim is to assess productive performance and robustness toward diverse perturbations of a Cacao agroecosystem managed with two contrasting groups of strategies: one group of strategies relying on a high level of pesticides and a second relying on low levels of pesticides. We conducted this study using a dynamical model of a Cacao agroecosystem that","dates":{"release":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2013","modification":"2025-04-04T12:26:59.036Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:17:10Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3846552","cross_references":{"pubmed":["24312469"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0080352"]}}