Do landscapes surrounding cotton crops significantly affect conservation biological control within crops?

Some of the techniques utilised in this thesis, which were introduced to conservation biological control for the first time, such as graph theory, have demonstrated great potential in the pursuit of landscape level habitat management and the design of tailor-made' landscapes to benefit conservation biological control. Overall, this thesis has demonstrated the importance of non-crop areas in agroecosystems to enhance the activity of natural enemies and therefore the ecosystems service of biological control, as well as the need for a landscape-level perspective in habitat management and working towards large scale landscape design.