Interaction effects of farm-scale management of natural enemy resources and the surrounding seminatural habitat on insect biological control
Autor
Lavandero, Blas
Maldonado-Santos, Enrique
Muñoz-Quilodran, Estefania
González-Chang, Mauricio
Zepeda-Paulo, Francisca
Salazar-Rojas, Ángel
Villegas, Cinthya
Fecha
2025Resumen
Agricultural land use and its disruption of natural landscapes threaten the provision of ecosystem services, such as biological control by natural enemies, because of habitat simplification and management intensification. However, most studies that evaluate the effect of local management practices rarely identify and include other important predictors such as landscape compositional values. We studied the effect of adding flower strips at farms on the control of aphids in a seminatural habitat (SNH) gradient. We found significantly less aphids on farms with flower strips and more SNH at the second sampling date as well as a greater proportion of mummies with flowers early in the season, with a greater proportion of mummies at a greater %SNH at the end of the season. Foraging predators responded to the %SNH of farms without flowers only on the second sampling date, which coincided with their highest mean abundances. Our data suggests that aphid parasitism was enhanced by flowers, having a potential effect early in the season, which ultimately explained the reduction in aphid numbers thereafter. On the other hand, the effects perceived on predator abundances seemed to be more date- and landscape-sensitive. Flower strips of faba beans and buckwheat in the field as well as the %SNH surrounding farms positively affected Diaeretiella rapae and could therefore be an important management strategy to decrease Brevicoryne brassicae densities in brassica crops.
Fuente
Insects, 16(3), 286Link de Acceso
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doi.org/10.3390/insects16030286Colecciones
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