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| Caballero, Berta; Romero, Albert; Perez, Nicolas; Ventura, Daniel; Chamorro, Lourdes; Goula, Marta; Sans, F.Xavier. |
| This work aims to evaluate the effect of crop type and density on insects’ community in the Mediterranean re-gion. In winter of 2004, four 35m x 10m blocks (replicates) were delimited and 24 equidistant 2m x 3m plots were marked. Seven crop types (barley, vetch, turnip, barley-vetch, barley-turnip, vetch-turnip and barley-vetch-turnip) at three densities were randomly established within each block. Fifteen crop shoots per plot were randomly collected in May to evaluate insect’s abundance and diversity. Our results suggest that inter-crop has a positive effect on abundance of most exam-ined groups of insects and diversity, specifically when vetch is incorporated in the mixture. Changes in abun-dance of aphids, trips and ants are also discussed connected... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Crop health; Quality; Protection. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/7509/1/caballero.pdf |
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| Romero, Albert; Chamorro, Lourdes; Blanco-Moreno, José Manuel; Armengot, Laura; Jose María, Laura; Sans, Francesc Xavier. |
| An extensive survey of weed vegetation was conducted in the crop edges of 180 organic and conventional dryland cereal fields in nine localities of NE Iberian Peninsula to assess the effect of landscape agricultural intensification and management on weed diversity. This preliminary results show that averaged weed species richness per edge (alpha-diversity) and floristic homogeneity among edges are higher in organic than conventional fields. Only in conventionally managed fields, elevated landscape intensification is associated to higher weed alpha-diversities and floristic homogeneity among crop edges. The expression of high-quality weed flora is higher in organic than in conventional crop edges but, conversely, it is only sensitive to landscape... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/12302/1/Romero_12302_ed.doc |
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