Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review.
By D. Letourneau, I. Armbrecht, B. Rivera, James Montoya Lerma, E. J. Carmona, M. Daza, Selene Escobar, Víctor Galindo, Catalina Gutiérrez, Sebastián D. López and 7 more. Ecological Applications, 2011
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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Insect Science, Plant Science
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- Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) management by smallholders. (2019, background): “Increased plant diversity, especially intercropping, has been shown to suppress herbivore populations, increase natural enemy populations and reduce crop damage [39].”
- Facilitation and sustainable agriculture: a mechanistic approach to reconciling crop production and conservation (2016, background): “…& Heil 2010), 4) changes in vegetation structure and microclimate affecting infection processes and 5) providing a more heterogeneous resource supply that supports a higher abundance and diversity of natural enemies of crop pests (i.e. associational resistance; Gunton 2011; Letourneau et al. 2011).”
- Companion Planting and Insect Pest Control (2013, background): “Furthermore, companion plants may hinder crop yield and reduce economical benefits [166, 167].”
- Predatory Mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in Agro-Ecosystems and Conservation Biological Control: A Review and Explorative Approach for Forecasting Plant-Predatory Mite Interactions and Mite Dispersal (2018, background): “Finally, the third strategy, conservation biological control, consists of enhancing the occurrence of natural enemies in the agro-ecosystem, through its management (Letourneau et al., 2011; Ratnadass et al., 2012).”
- Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people (2018, background): “, pests and diseases spread more slowly in spatially or temporally heterogeneous crop systems, and such systems also support predator populations that keep pests in check (80, 81)], and enhancement of soil biota and fertility (82).”
- Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. (2014, background): “A key principle is that biodiverse agroecosystems demonstrate less pest damage and more natural pest enemies than non-biodiverse systems (Letourneau et al., 2011).”
- Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control (2018, background): “…farming practices limiting negative impacts on their populations 38 , and indirectly, through the positive effect of the diversity and abundance of plant communities (including crop and non-crop vegetation at the field, farm and landscape scales) on the diversity and abundance of predators 25,26 .”
- Crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: a review (2016, background): “A meta-analysis of 552 studies demonstrated that crop diversification from the field to the farm level is positively correlated with specific diversity of natural enemies and negatively correlated with crop pest abundance and crop damages (Letourneau et al. 2011).”
- Agroecology: Principles for the Conversion and Redesign of Farming Systems (2016, background): “[37] found that farms with species-rich vegetational schemes exhibited a 44% increase in abundance of natural enemies, a 54% increase in pest mortality, and consequently a 23% reduction in crop damage when compared to monoculture farms.”
- A meta-analysis of crop pest and natural enemy response to landscape complexity. (2011, methodology): “However, vote-count is a weaker tool than meta-analysis for detecting effects (Letourneau et al. 2011).”
- Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “Conversely, management options to increase the diversity of cropping systems have been shown to improve both the abundance of natural enemies (94), and species diversity and yield contributions of pollinators (58).”
- Wildflower plantings enhance the abundance of natural enemies and their services in adjacent blueberry fields (2015, background): “There is less information on the relationship of these resources to the delivery of function rather than support of biodiversity (Letourneau et al., 2009, 2011), but we have recently found that natural enemy density and diversity increase with the area of native wildflower resources available, with…”