‘Beetle banks’ as refuges for beneficial arthropods in farmland: long‐term changes in predator communities and habitat

By A. MacLeod, S. Wratten, N. Sotherton, M. Thomas. 2004

192 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. T. Tscharntke
2. S. Wratten
3. J. Tylianakis
4. T. Rand
5. D. Landis
6. J. Harwood
7. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
8. J. Bakker

In Insect Science

1. S. Wratten
2. D. Landis
3. J. Tylianakis
4. T. Tscharntke
5. M. Jonsson
6. R. Cullen
7. J. Harwood
8. T. Rand

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. J. Tylianakis
2. T. Tscharntke
3. T. Rand
4. S. Wratten
5. D. Landis
6. M. Jonsson
7. R. Cullen
8. M. Jervis

Citations in the corpus

• Spillover edge effects: the dispersal of agriculturally subsidized insect natural enemies into adjacent natural habitats. (2006, background): “The high over-wintering densities of agriculturally important carabid and staphylinid beetles, which feed on crop herbivores during the growing season, in raised grass-sown strips referred to as beetle-banks (MacLeod et al. 2004) are likely to be the result of similar processes.”
• Impact of agricultural management on carabid communities and weed seed predation (2007, background): “Additional increases in predator abundance and predation rates in these systems might be achieved through maintenance of beetle banks (MacLeod et al., 2004) or refuge habitat (Lys and Nentwig, 1992; Carmona and Landis, 1999).”
• Ecological compatibility of GM crops and biological control (2009, unknown): “…(Zandstra and Motooka, 1978; Hausammann, 1996; Nentwig et al., 1998; Landis et al., 2000), beetle banks (Sotherton, 1995; Landis et al., 2000; MacLeod et al., 2004), and hedgerows (Wratten et al., 1998), perennial target areas are often entirely removed from crop production, and thus do not…”
• Aphidophagy by Coccinellidae: Application of biological control in agroecosystems (2009, background): “Beetle banks (Sotherton, 1995) are primarily used as a means for providing suitable overwintering sites for predatory arthropods within crop habitats thereby promoting overwintering predator populations (Thomas et al., 1991, 1992; MacLeod et al., 2004; Collins et al., 2003).”
• The need for effective marking and tracking techniques for monitoring the movements of insect predators and parasitoids (2004, background): “…(Griffiths and Wratten, 1979; Thies and Tscharntke, 1999); (ii) artificial: such as ‘beetle banks’ (Wratten et al., 1990; Thomas et al., 1991, 1992; MacLeod et al., 2004), hedges and multicrop systems where sections or corridors are not treated with herbicides, or a mixture of plant species is…”
• Habitat manipulation to mitigate the impacts of invasive arthropod pests (2010, background): “These banks can provide overwintering sites for ground living predatory beetles in the families Carabidae and Staphylinidae and for spiders and this can increase their density (Thomas et al. 1991, 1992) and diversity (MacLeod et al. 2004).”