@article{house_brust_1989, title={ECOLOGY OF LOW-INPUT, NO-TILLAGE AGROECOSYSTEMS}, volume={27}, ISSN={["0167-8809"]}, DOI={10.1016/0167-8809(89)90096-0}, abstractNote={Low-input, no-tillage agroecosystems are a category of low-input, sustainable agroecosystems. No-tillage in combination with lower inputs generate ecological interactions similar to those occurring in natural terrestrial ecosystems. Primary production, predation, consumption, decomposition and nutrient cycling of low-input, no-tillage systems mimic natural system behavior to a greater extent than conventionally tilled or plowed systems. The similarity of low-input, no-tillage systems to natural systems has a number of positive agronomic effects. Nutrients cycle more conservatively, decomposition of plant residues is slower, thus conserving soil moisture, and biological control activity, especially arthropod predation and weed consumption, is higher than in conventional systems. In this paper, we defend and provide experimental evidence for our contention that the enhancement of soil biota and activity under low-input, no-tillage conditions promotes interactions beneficial to agricultural production at several ecological levels.}, number={1-4}, journal={AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT}, author={HOUSE, GJ and BRUST, GE}, year={1989}, month={Nov}, pages={331–345} } @article{house_alzugaray_1989, title={INFLUENCE OF COVER CROPPING AND NO-TILLAGE PRACTICES ON COMMUNITY COMPOSITION OF SOIL ARTHROPODS IN A NORTH-CAROLINA AGROECOSYSTEM}, volume={18}, ISSN={["1938-2936"]}, DOI={10.1093/ee/18.2.302}, abstractNote={Winter legume and grain cover crops preceding corn, Zea mays L., grown using conventional and no-tillage methods were investigated for their effect on population dynamics and community structure of soil arthropods. Hairy vetch, Vicia villosa Roth, supported higher below-ground arthropod population densities and a more taxonomically diverse fauna than crimson clover, Trifolium incarnatum L., or wheat, Triticum aestivum L. Pest and beneficial soil arthropods were most abundant in no-tillage corn preceded by hairy vetch. Diversity of soilarthropod species was higher under no-tillage than conventional tillage. Divergences in community structure of soil arthropods among cover crop species, evident early in the season, dissipated by midseason. Arthropod predators were more numerous in no-tillage than conventional tillage systems regardless of previous cover crops. Although no-tillage practices promoted a more trophically balanced soil arthropod community than conventional tillage during early and mid season, in 1987 seedling corn plants in no-tillage vetch treatments sustained significantly higher (P < 0.05) damage from the southern corn rootworm, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, than in other treatments. Tillage system preference was shown by herbivores: Seedcorn maggot, Delia platura (Meigen), occurred in large numbers in conventional tillage, and southern corn rootworm populations were high in no-tillage, especially following legume cover crops.}, number={2}, journal={ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY}, author={HOUSE, GJ and ALZUGARAY, MD}, year={1989}, month={Apr}, pages={302–307} } @article{house_1989, title={No-tillage and legume cover cropping in corn agroecosystems: Effects on soil arthropods}, volume={24}, number={1-2}, journal={Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica}, author={House, G. J.}, year={1989}, pages={99} } @article{house_parmelee_1985, title={COMPARISON OF SOIL ARTHROPODS AND EARTHWORMS FROM CONVENTIONAL AND NO-TILLAGE AGROECOSYSTEMS}, volume={5}, ISSN={["0167-1987"]}, DOI={10.1016/S0167-1987(85)80003-9}, abstractNote={Soil-arthropod and earthworm densities (number m−2) were higher (P < 0.05) under no-tillage than conventional tillage practices. Enchytraeid worms were higher in conventional tillage. Two predaceous groups, ground beetles (Carabidae: Coleoptera) and spiders (Araneae), comprised more than one-half of all soil macroarthropods collected. All major microarthropod suborders (Oribatids, Prostigmatids, Mesostigmatids, and the order Collembola) were higher (P < 0.01) under no-tillage than conventional tillage. High soil-arthropod and earthworm densities under no-tillage systems suggest an expanded and beneficial involvement for these soil fauna in crop-residue-decomposition processes.}, number={4}, journal={SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH}, author={HOUSE, GJ and PARMELEE, RW}, year={1985}, pages={351–360} } @article{house_all_short_law_1985, title={Impact of synthetic pyrethroids on beneficial insects from cotton grown in the southern piedmont}, volume={2}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Agricultural Entomology}, author={House, G. J. and All, J. N. and Short, K. T. and Law, S. E.}, year={1985}, pages={161} }