Influence of beetle banks on cereal aphid predation in winter wheat

By K. L. Collins, Nigel D. Boatman, A. Wilcox, John M. Holland, K. Chaney. 2002

224 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. John M. Holland
2. S. Wratten
3. T. Tscharntke

In Insect Science

1. T. Tscharntke
2. S. Wratten
3. W. E. Snyder
4. D. Landis
5. G. Gurr
6. F. Bianchi
7. M. Jonsson
8. R. Cullen

In Plant Science

1. S. Wratten
2. T. Tscharntke
3. W. E. Snyder
4. D. Landis
5. G. Gurr
6. Y. Clough
7. J. Harwood
8. M. Jonsson

Citations in the corpus

• Arthropod pest management in organic crops. (2007, background): “These semi-permanently vegetated raised strips are established across field centers to provide refugia for carabid and staphylinid beetles and spiders (34), as well as for birds and small mammals (147).”
• Habitat manipulation to mitigate the impacts of invasive arthropod pests (2010, background): “Predation has been found to increase close to beetle banks (Collins et al. 2002), but this effect is not universal (Prasad and Snyder 2006).”
• Organic versus conventional arable farming systems: Functional grouping helps understand staphylinid response (2007, background): “They play an important part both aboveground, as predators of aphids in agroecosystems (Dennis and Wratten, 1991; Collins et al., 2002), and below-ground, where they prey on collembola, feed on algae, fungi and decaying organic matter (Good and Giller, 1991).”
• Impact of agricultural management on carabid communities and weed seed predation (2007, unknown): “Other studies have found similar correlations between natural enemy abundance and predation rates of insect pests (Menalled et al., 1999; Collins et al., 2002; Frank and Shrewsbury, 2004).”
• ‘Beetle banks’ as refuges for beneficial arthropods in farmland: long‐term changes in predator communities and habitat (2004, background): “To enhance predation of cereal aphids and other pests, the densities of their epigeal polyphagous predators have been manipulated by creating overwintering habitats within cereal fields (Chiverton, 1989; Collins et al., 2002).”
• Sustainable pest regulation in agricultural landscapes: a review on landscape composition, biodiversity and natural pest control (2006, background): “…in non-crop habitats have been shown to invade surrounding fields (Honěk 1982; Coombes & Sotherton 1986; Thomas et al. 1991; Dennis & Fry 1992; Corbett & Rosenheim 1996), where they may limit the population increase of pests (Landis & van der Werf 1997; Menalled et al. 1999a; Collins et al. 2002).”
• Aphidophagy by Coccinellidae: Application of biological control in agroecosystems (2009, background): “In winter wheat fields in the United Kingdom, Collins et al. (2002) created beetle banks consisting of Dactylis glomerata L. (Poales: Poaceae) and Holcus lanatus L. (Poales: Poaceae) grasses and examined the role of predator communities in aphid control the following year.”
• Conservation biological control using fungal entomopathogens (2010, unknown): “…have demonstrable benefits for particular arthropod natural enemy abundance, and in some cases relationships between arthropod natural enemy abundance in margins and pest suppression in adjacent crops has also been demonstrated (Collins et al. 2002; Powell et al. 2003; Holland 2007; Pell 2007).”
• Predator interference limits fly egg biological control by a guild of ground-active beetles (2004, background): “While many studies have documented that beetle densities do indeed increase in or near refuges, there is considerably less evidence that these conservation strategies actually result in improved pest control (but see Collins et al., 2002).”
• Ecological Engineering for Pest Management: Advances in Habitat Manipulation for Arthropods (2004, background): “These include grassy beetle banks (Thomas and Marshall 1999; Collins et al. 2002); weedy strips; set-aside strips and field margins (see overview by Marshall and Moonen 2002).”
• Efficacy and economics of shelter habitats for conservation biological control (2008, background): “Collins et al. (2002) reported a detectable impact of generalist predators originating from a beetle bank up to 58 m into the crop.”