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Title: | Interaction effects between local flower richness and distance to natural woodland on pest and beneficial insects in apple orchards | Contributor(s): | Saunders, Manu (author) ; Luck, Gary W (author) | Publication Date: | 2018 | DOI: | 10.1111/afe.12258 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23058 | Abstract: | 1 Local and landscape factors interact to influence animal populations and, ultimately, crop yields in agroecosystems. Yet few studies have considered interactions and trade-offs between these factors within a single agroecosystem. 2 We sampled insect communities (fruit-damaging pests and Diptera and Hymenoptera pollinator and natural enemy taxa) associated with focal apple trees in south-eastern Australian orchards across a single growing season.We also measured marketable fruit yields on netted (preventing access to vertebrates) and open branches on each focal tree. We focused on relationships with local (ground cover attributes) and landscape (proximity to natural woodland) factors. 3 Importantly, we found that local flower richness in orchard understoreys may buffer the negative effects that isolation from natural woodland has on wild bee and natural enemy communities and the ecosystem services they provide. 4 The results of the present study suggest that floral diversity may be more effective in supporting beneficial insects in crop interiors, rather than at edges near natural vegetation. 5 More studies are needed that identify how local and landscape vegetation structure interact to influence communities of pest and beneficial taxa, and relevant ecosystem functions, in agroecosystems. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/DP140100709 | Source of Publication: | Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 20(2), p. 279-287 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1461-9563 1461-9555 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 050102 Ecosystem Function 070101 Agricultural Land Management 060208 Terrestrial Ecology |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 410203 Ecosystem function 300202 Agricultural land management 310308 Terrestrial ecology |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 961305 Remnant Vegetation and Protected Conservation Areas in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments 960504 Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments 960804 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 180604 Rehabilitation or conservation of terrestrial environments 180601 Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems 180606 Terrestrial biodiversity |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Environmental and Rural Science UNE Business School |
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