Trade-offs in cotton pest management: Seed treatments suppress pests but reduce the abundance of natural enemies in the arthropod community

Melis Yalçin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0346422

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Trade-offs in cotton pest management: Seed treatments suppress pests but reduce the abundance of natural enemies in the arthropod community

Melis Yalçin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: melisusluy@adu.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Türkiye

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9122-7133

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Trade-offs in cotton pest management: Seed treatments suppress pests but reduce the abundance of natural enemies in the arthropod community

Melis Yalçin

Published: April 21, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346422

About the Authors

Melis Yalçin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: melisusluy@adu.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Türkiye

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9122-7133

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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