Manipulation of Agricultural Habitats to Improve Conservation Biological Control in South America

Peñalver‐Cruz, Ainara; Alvarez-Baca, Jeniffer K.; Alfaro-Tapia, Armando; Gontijo, Lessando M.; Lavandero, Blas

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“…As Chinese chives and garlic were already tested as an intercrop for the control of N. bilobata, a new pest species in Brazilian strawberry crops [7], this approach may be tested for other pests, such as Drosophila suzukii Matsumura and Duponchelia fovealis Zeller, species with a high potential for causing damage to strawberry. Future studies may also combine sustainable management practices, such as the reduction of the source of fertilization to optimal levels [38,39], use of low impact insecticides and entomopathogenic agents [38,40,41], and incorporation of plants that maintain or enhance natural enemy populations in the crop production landscape [42,43], to build an organic strawberry production protocol that may be used even for conventional strawberry growers or incorporated into others IPM crop protocols.…”

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Plant Acceptance for Oviposition of Tetranychus urticae on Strawberry Leaves Is Influenced by Aromatic Plants in Laboratory and Greenhouse Intercropping Experiments

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The objective was to evaluate aromatic plants’ effects on the acceptance, preference, egg load, and life span of females of the twospotted spider mite (TSSM) in laboratory experiments and TSSM population under aromatic plants’ intercropping in greenhouse experiments. The pseudofruits production was also evaluated. For the laboratory, basil’s, Chinese chives’, chives’, and garlic’s influence on TSSM were tested on strawberry leaves. Four laboratory experiments were conducted: (1) Multiple choice test; (2) T-shaped arena test; (3) host–plant acceptance on aromatic plant or strawberry leaves; and (4) performance of TSSMs on strawberry leaves under aromatic plant influence. For the greenhouse experiments, assessments of the TSSM populations were realized by observing TSSM with a 10× magnifying glass on strawberry leaves in a monocrop or intercropped with Chinese chives, chives, garlic, or onion. Pseudofruit production was evaluated. Our results show that strawberry leaves were strongly preferred by TSSM. The T-shaped arena test revealed that all aromatic plants repel the TSSM. The test with the performance of TSSM females revealed that aromatic plants affected the mite’s biological parameters. Chinese chives reduced the number of eggs laid per day by 33.22%, whereas garlic reduced the number by 17.30% and chives reduced it by 12.46%. The total number of eggs was reduced by 34.79% with Chinese chives and 25.65% with garlic. Greenhouse experiments showed that chives reduced TSSM populations on two cycles and Chinese chives and garlic reduced TSSM populations on the first cycle only. With our findings, we suggest that Chinese chives, chives, and garlic are the primary candidates for intercropping use against TSSM. Chinese chives and garlic reduced the total number of eggs, but only garlic reduced female mite longevity. However, none of the intercropping plants improved strawberry pseudofruit production.

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Plant Acceptance for Oviposition of Tetranychus urticae on Strawberry Leaves Is Influenced by Aromatic Plants in Laboratory and Greenhouse Intercropping Experiments

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“…Reduced biodiversity results in changes in ecological functions, such as loss of self-regulation capacity, reduced genetic variability, population imbalances, and imbalances in the relationships between different groups, which affect the environment (Lopes et al, 2017;Nicholls & Altieri, 2007;Cardinale et al, 2012;Peñalver-Cruz et al, 2019). Therefore, the study of edaphic invertebrates is a very important tool in the preservation and sustainable management of the ecosystem, in order to maintain the integrity of native forest areas and help areas under recovery, taking advantage of the interrelations with soil and vegetation provided by edaphic invertebrates (Rodrigues et al, 2016).…”

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Edaphic Invertebrates as Indicators of Soil Integrity Quality

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Bioindicator organisms, such as edaphic invertebrates, are constantly used to assess disturbance, as they exhibit responses such as reduced community and changes in diversity, affecting the local ecosystem. The aim of this study was to compare the impacts of disturbance on the edaphic invertebrate community in both a pasture area and a native forest area, during summer and winter. Samplings were conducted for nine days using pitfalls. Bray-Curtis analyses, NMDS, ANOSIM, and SIMPER were applied. There was difference in richness and diversity between areas and seasons. Native forest pitfalls had higher similarity in abundance and diversity in both seasons than pasture pitfalls. Specimens belonging to 20 orders were collected; of those, Collembola, Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Hemiptera had the highest number of individuals. Seasonal influence on the organisms was evident. The impact on edaphic invertebrate community located in the pasture area showed that native forest has higher complexity and structural stability.

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“…This can have significant positive effects on the yield of those main crops which require insect pollination. [326,327] Even in the cultivation phase from the third year of vegetation onward, WPMs show a diverse stand composition, although the number of species of the dominant (yieldrelevant) species is lower than in the first and second year of vegetation. Accordingly, the so-called mass-flowering effect (negative effects of intensively flowering monocultures such as rapeseed on pollinator populations) would not be expected for WPM.…”

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Renewable Energy from Wildflowers—Perennial Wild Plant Mixtures as a Social‐Ecologically Sustainable Biomass Supply System

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2020

Advanced Sustainable Systems

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Against this backdrop, industrial crop cultivation, is far more promising. [20] There exists a wide range of industrial crops, many of which with well documented and researched cultivation techniques and utilization pathways (Table 1). [19,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Second, the potential cultivation area for industrial crops reaches from the tropics to the northern Atlantic and continental zones. [19,[30][31][32][33][34] Furthermore, industrial crop cultivation can mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through bio sequestration [35] and through bioenergy to carbon capture and storage (BECCS) strategies. [1] This is because the below-ground fraction of the crop (the root system) remains in the soil and contributes to humus accumulation. [1,24,[36][37][38][39] In the long-term, humus accumulation even promises to rehabilitate degraded land and make it suitable for food crop cultivation again. [38,[40][41][42][43] For both algae cultivation and the use of residues from agriculture and wood industry, neither BECCS nor the recovery of degraded land is practicable. Consequently, biomass supply from industrial crops seems a more reasonable solution from a broader perspective-but how can industrial crop cultivation be expanded without compromising environmental and social needs?From an ethical perspective, industrial crop cultivation should generally not compete with other land uses such as food crop cultivation and natural successions, so that neither food security nor biodiversity conservation are threatened. [147][148][149][150][151][152][153][154] Both food security and biodiversity conservation are high on the agenda of the United Nations' sustainability development goals. [155,156] These can be realized through both land saving and land sharing approaches. [151,152] The utilization of favorable agricultural land for industrial crop cultivation should be restricted to social-ecologically sustainable land sharing concepts, e.g., wide crop rotations including both food crops and industrial crops. [23,[157][158][159][160][161][162] The land saving concept, i.e., cultivating industrial crops on unfavorable agricultural land-so-called "marginal agricultural land" [163] -thus saving the favorable agricultural land for food crop cultivation, is limited by biophysical constraints such as adverse rooting conditions and climatic conditions or economic challenges such as inconvenient field shapes and long field-farm distances. [19,25,88,89,[164][165][166][167] Additionally, the intensive (industrial) cultivation of common cash crops such as sugar cane, oil palm, rape seed, and maize often requires high off-farm inputs such as nitrogen (N) fertilizer herbicides, or insecticides. [1,153,[168][169][170] Intense usage of these A growing bioeconomy requires increasing amounts of biomass from residues, wastes, and industrial crops for bio-based products and bioenergy. There is much discussion about how industrial crop cultivation could promote socialecological outcomes such as environmental protection, biodiversity conservat...

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Manipulation of Agricultural Habitats to Improve Conservation Biological Control in South America

Cited by 33 publications

References 167 publications

Plant Acceptance for Oviposition of Tetranychus urticae on Strawberry Leaves Is Influenced by Aromatic Plants in Laboratory and Greenhouse Intercropping Experiments

Plant Acceptance for Oviposition of Tetranychus urticae on Strawberry Leaves Is Influenced by Aromatic Plants in Laboratory and Greenhouse Intercropping Experiments

Edaphic Invertebrates as Indicators of Soil Integrity Quality

Renewable Energy from Wildflowers—Perennial Wild Plant Mixtures as a Social‐Ecologically Sustainable Biomass Supply System

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