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Landscape‐scale pest suppression is mediated by timing of predator arrival

Ecological Applications, 2015
There is increasing evidence that biological control of agricultural pests is affected by the landscape context, although the mechanisms behind this pattern have received little attention. Ecological theory predicts that one key mechanism mediating successful pest suppression is early predator immigration to agricultural fields. However, the importance
Alejandro C, Costamagna, William N, Venables, Nancy A, Schellhorn   +2 more
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Pest control experiments show benefits of complexity at landscape and local scales

Ecological Applications, 2012
Farms benefit from pest control services provided by nature, but management of these services requires an understanding of how habitat complexity within and around the farm impacts the relationship between agricultural pests and their enemies. Using cage experiments, this study measures the effect of habitat complexity across scales on pest suppression
Rebecca, Chaplin-Kramer, Claire, Kremen
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Organic farming at local and landscape scales fosters biological pest control in vineyards

Ecological Applications, 2018
AbstractWhile organic farming practices, which are often promoted as models of ecological intensification, generally enhance biodiversity, their effects on the delivery of ecosystem services, such as biological pest control, are still unknown. Here, using a multi‐scale hierarchical design in southwestern France, we examined the effects of organic ...
Muneret, Lucile, Auriol, Arthur, Thiery, Denis, Rusch, Adrien   +3 more
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Connecting scales: Achieving in‐field pest control from areawide and landscape ecology studies

Insect Science, 2014
AbstractAreawide management has a long history of achieving solutions that target pests, however, there has been little focus on the areawide management of arthropod natural enemies. Landscape ecology studies that show a positive relationship between natural enemy abundance and habitat diversity demonstrate landscape‐dependent pest suppression, but ...
Schellhorn, Nancy A., Parry, Hazel R., Macfadyen, Sarina, Wang, Yongmo, Zalucki, Myron P.   +4 more
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Using landscape indicators to predict high pest infestations and successful natural pest control at the regional scale

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2012
Designing multifunctional landscapes requires accurate indicators to assess the effect of landscape structure on the provision on ecosystem services. Biological pest control relying on natural enemies is an important ecosystem service considered as a sustainable alternative to chemical control.
Rusch, Adrien, Morison, Muriel, Roger-Estrade, Jean, Sarthou, Jean-Pierre   +3 more
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Farming for pests? Local and landscape-scale effects of grassland management on rabbit densities

European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2010
In recent decades in the UK, there has been an increasing trend in numbers of the European wild rabbit, a significant agricultural pest typically associated with grassland habitats. However, the relationship between rabbit abundance and grassland management, in particular grazing, has not been sufficiently explained.
Silviu O. Petrovan, Isabel C. Barrio, Alastair I. Ward, Philip M. Wheeler   +3 more
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Landscape-scale expansion of agroecology to enhance natural pest control: A systematic review

2020
Ecological intensification of agriculture (EIA) aims to assure food security by harnessing ecosystem services while minimizing external inputs and environmental harms. One manifestation of EIA proposed worldwide is agroecological farming, which will affect future landscapes, biodiversity and make assurance of crop yields more reliant on management of ...
Petit, Sandrine, Muneret, Lucile, Carbonne, Benjamin, Hannachi, Mourad, Ricci, Benoit, Rusch, Adrien, Lavigne, Claire   +6 more
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Landscape-scale patterns of forest pest and pathogen damage in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2010
Pathogen and pest outbreaks are recognized as key processes in the dynamics of Western forest ecosystems, yet the spatial patterns of stress and mortality are often complex and difficult to describe in an explicit spatial context, especially when considering the concurrent effects of multiple agents.
Jaclyn A. Hatala, Robert L. Crabtree, Kerry Q. Halligan, Paul R. Moorcroft   +3 more
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Analysis of landscape-scale insect pest dynamics and pesticide use: an empirical and modeling study

Ecological Applications, 2011
Diverse agricultural landscapes help support many ecosystem services, including insect pest suppression. Yet questions remain about how landscape diversification affects insects with differing life histories, and how interactions between pest management and land use alter insect population dynamics.
Megan E. O'Rourke, Laura E. Jones
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Contribution of landscape drivers to explain crop pest infestation levels at national scale

2021
Managing crop pests in an integrated framework requires increased knowledge aboutpest abundance drivers. Landscape properties, agricultural practices or climate can affectthe presence of crop pests at different scales. However, few studies considered these affectsat national scale, due to a lack of data.
Courson, Emeric, Ricci, Benoît, Petit, Sandrine   +2 more
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