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| Géneau, Céline E.; Wäckers, Felix L.; Luka, Henryk; Daniel, Claudia; Balmer, Oliver. |
| Habitat management is an important element in sustainable agriculture and can be used to maximize a range of ecosystem services that support crop production. An important example of such ecosystem services is biological control of pests which can be enhanced by providing arthropod natural enemies with suitable floral resources. The potential risk of this approach, however, is that flowering plants may enhance the fitness of the targeted pests as well. We conducted experiments to identify selective plant species that would improve the longevity and parasitization rate of the parasitoid wasp Microplitis mediator without benefiting its host pest, the cabbage moth Mamestra brassicae. Effects on longevity were also assessed for Diadegma fenestrale, a generalist... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Vegetables Crop health; Quality; Protection. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/19939/4/Geneau%2Detal%2D2012%2DBasicApplEcol2012.pdf |
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| Balmer, Oliver; Géneau, Céline E.; Belz, Elodie; Weishaupt, Bettina; Förderer, Gerda; Moos, Sebastian; Ditner, Nadine; Juric, Ivan; Luka, Henryk. |
| Monocultures typical of intensive agriculture offer ideal conditions to specialized herbivores while depriving their natural enemies of habitat and nutritional resources. The resulting release of herbivores from both bottom-up and top-down control causes pest outbreaks in economically important crops. Boosting locally occurring natural enemy populations through species-specific habitat management to restore natural herbivore control has been much advocated but remains rarely tested in the field. Here, we investigated whether adding specifically selected flowering plants to monocultures increases parasitation rates of herbivores and crop yield. We performed replicated field experiments in 2 years and found that adding cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) into... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Vegetables Biodiversity and ecosystem services Crop health; Quality; Protection. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/36391/1/Balmer_etal_2014_BiolControl_Vol76_p19-27.pdf |
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