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Title: Predicting Landscape Configuration Effects on Agricultural Pest Suppression

Abstract

Arthropod predators and parasitoids attack crop pests, providing a valuable ecosystem service. The amount of noncrop habitat surrounding crop fields influences pest suppression, but synthesis of new studies suggests that the spatial configuration of crops and other habitats is similarly important. Natural enemies are often more abundant in fine-grained agricultural landscapes comprising smaller patches and can increase or decrease with the connectivity of crop fields to other habitats. Partitioning organisms by traits has emerged as a promising way to predict the strength and direction of these effects. Furthermore, our ability to predict configurational effects will depend on understanding the potential for indirect effects among trophic levels and the relationship between arthropod dispersal capability and the spatial scale of underlying landscape structure.

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Research Org.:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1573535
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OSTI ID: 1799683
Grant/Contract Number:  
DEB 1832042; SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Trends in Ecology and Evolution Journal Volume: 35 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; landscape configuration; pest suppression; agroecosystems; landscape ecology; insect ecology

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Haan, Nathan L., Zhang, Yajun, and Landis, Douglas A. Predicting Landscape Configuration Effects on Agricultural Pest Suppression. Netherlands: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.003.
Haan, Nathan L., Zhang, Yajun, & Landis, Douglas A. Predicting Landscape Configuration Effects on Agricultural Pest Suppression. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.003
Haan, Nathan L., Zhang, Yajun, and Landis, Douglas A. Sat . "Predicting Landscape Configuration Effects on Agricultural Pest Suppression". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.003.
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abstractNote = {Arthropod predators and parasitoids attack crop pests, providing a valuable ecosystem service. The amount of noncrop habitat surrounding crop fields influences pest suppression, but synthesis of new studies suggests that the spatial configuration of crops and other habitats is similarly important. Natural enemies are often more abundant in fine-grained agricultural landscapes comprising smaller patches and can increase or decrease with the connectivity of crop fields to other habitats. Partitioning organisms by traits has emerged as a promising way to predict the strength and direction of these effects. Furthermore, our ability to predict configurational effects will depend on understanding the potential for indirect effects among trophic levels and the relationship between arthropod dispersal capability and the spatial scale of underlying landscape structure.},
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journal = {Trends in Ecology and Evolution},
number = 2,
volume = 35,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2020}
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