How Pop Ecology Misleads Agriculture Romanticized “pop ecology” oversimplifies nature and leads to costly mistakes in real-world crop management.

Pop ecology gives us appealing slogans—“nature knows best,” “the balance of nature”—but fails to reflect reality and so misleads agriculture. Here's what the ecology of reality actually tells us.
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Really excited to share this work were we apply Darwinian Agriculture principles to explore how selection for cooperative traits can boost soybean breeding outcomes.

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