Relationships between biodiversity and biological control in agroecosystems: current status and future challenges
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Agricultural systems around the world are faced with the challenge of providing for the demands of a growing human population. To meet this demand, agricultural systems have intensified to produce more crops per unit area at the expense of greater inputs. Agricultural intensification, while yielding more crops, generally has detrimental impacts on biodiversity. However, intensified agricultural systems often have fewer pests than more “environmentally-friendly” systems, which is believed to be primarily due to extensive pesticide use on intensive farms. In turn, to be competitive, less-intensive agricultural systems must rely on biological control of pests. Biological pest control is a complex ecosystem service that is generally positively associated with biodiversity of natural enemy guilds. Yet, we still have a limited understanding of the relationships between biodiversity and biological control in agroecosystems, and the mechanisms underlying these relationships. Here, we review the effects of agricultural intensification on the diversity of natural enemy communities attacking arthropod pests and weeds. We next discuss how biodiversity of these communities impacts pest control, and the mechanisms underlying these effects. We focus in particular on novel conceptual issues such as relationships between richness, evenness, abundance, and pest control. Moreover, we discuss novel experimental approaches that can be used to explore the relationships between biodiversity and bio…
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Tailored flower strips promote natural enemy biodiversity and pest control in potato crops
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“This will be a major challenge for the coming decades, and finding ways to minimize pesticide effects on beneficial organisms such as natural enemies will need to be a component of such efforts (Crowder and Jabbour, 2014).”
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BackgroundTemporal dynamics of natural enemy–pest interactions in a changing environment
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Relationships between natural enemy diversity and biological control
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“Agricultural intensification is typically characterized by a high rate of disturbances resulting in fragmented habitats, significant biodiversity loss and poor ecosystem function due to modification of bottom-up and top-down processes (Crowder and Jabbour, 2014).”
BackgroundThe effects of ants on pest control: a meta-analysis
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“providing natural enemies in the ecosystem) not only reduces the use of pesticides and production costs but also helps to maintain local biodiversity [4].”
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“2008) and pest control (Crowder and Jabbour 2014).”
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BackgroundThe impact of secondary pests on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops
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“It is therefore important to foster research collaborations between the fields of ecology, mathematics and economics (Codling, 2014; Crowder and Jabbour, 2014).”
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“Crowder and Jabbour (2013) suggested adopting crop and livestock integration to overcome negative environmental impacts from modern agriculture, such as nitrogen leaching, poor soil quality, andmanuremanagement.”
BackgroundDropping to escape: a review of an under‐appreciated antipredator defence
Humphreys, R. K., & Ruxton, G. D. (2018) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1111/brv.12466 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Plant diversity and ecological intensification in crop production systems
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Landscape scale management affects weed richness but not weed abundance in winter wheat fields
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“…is an acute question (Tscharntke et al., 2005; Gabriel et al., 2010) as many farmland organisms contribute to ecosystem services impacting food production, e.g. pest control (Bohan et al., 2013; Crowder and Jabbour, 2014) or crop pollination (Deguines et al., 2014; Bretagnolle and Gaba, 2015).”
BackgroundPest management: Reconciling farming practices and natural regulations
Brévault, T., & Clouvel, P. (2018) · Crop Protection · doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2018.09.003 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Economic value of regulating ecosystem services: a comprehensive at the global level review
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Tools and techniques for investigating impacts of habitat complexity on biological control
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“This is concerning because many ecosystem services such as biological control lose functionality when biodiversity is degraded (Hooper et al., 2005; Crowder et al., 2010; Crowder and Jabbour, 2014).”
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“…to transform from extensive management to intensive management by changing land use methods and inputs, or improving management practices and technologies, thus improving land productivity and labor productivity to achieve higher agricultural output (Crowder & Jabbour, 2014; Tilman et al., 2011).”
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“…pressures in the system, this termination date may provide growers with the opportunity to maximize their pest control potential while promoting the conservation of these important predators (Hatten et al., 2007; Letourneau and Bothwell, 2008; Crowder and Jabbour, 2014; Lundgren and Fausti, 2015).”
BackgroundParasitoid Biodiversity and Insect Pest Management
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Promoting biological control in a rapidly changing world
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“It is anticipated that the world’s population will reach approximately 11 billion by 2025, thus exacerbating the need for efficient food production (Crowder and Jabbour 2014; Riemens et al. 2021).”
BackgroundPredators control pests and increase yield across crop types and climates: a meta-analysis
Boldorini, G. X., McCary, M. A., Romero, G. Q., Mills, K. L., Sanders, N. J., Reich, P. B., Michalko, R., & Gonçalves‐Souza, T. (2024) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.2522 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
“…predators in suppressing populations of pests [15,17,18,21], though their effectiveness likely depends on functional traits of both the predators (e.g. hunting mode) and the pests (e.g. life stage), species identity, crop type and environmental heterogeneity (e.g. climatic variation) [15,22 – 26].”
BackgroundApproaches and mechanisms for ecologically based pest management across multiple scales
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“With the expansion of cropland expansion and agricultural intensification, non-crop habitats have dramatically decreased (Crowder and Jabbour, 2014; Rand et al., 2014), compromising their ability to sustain a diversified community of natural enemies and resulting in the decline of key biocontrol…”
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Agroecological practices for whole-system sustainability
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Tropical tree diversity mediates foraging and predatory effects of insectivorous birds
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Mixed forests to mitigate risk of insect outbreaks
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“Recent meta-analyses show that in both agricultural (Crowder and Jabbour 2014) and forestry systems (Jactel et al.”
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European farmers’ incentives to promote natural pest control service in arable fields
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A Systems Comparison of Contrasting Organic Weed Management Strategies
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“…controlled in the critical period, later-emerging weeds may proliferate, which may provide benefits resulting from increased biodiversity (Amaral et al. 2016; Crowder and Jabbour 2014), but since these weeds will likely set seed, control costs will likely increase in subsequent crops (Norris 1999).”
BackgroundThe consequences of synthetic auxin herbicide on plant–herbivore interactions
Johnson, N. M., Zhang, G. M., Soble, A., Johnson, S. E., & Baucom, R. S. (2023) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2023.02.003 · Cited by 27 · see citing works
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Local and Landscape Effects to Biological Controls in Urban Agriculture—A Review
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Plant damage in urban agroecosystems varies with local and landscape factors
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The Future of Organic Insect Pest Management: Be a Better Entomologist or Pay for Someone Who Is
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“The effectiveness of BCAs in controlling fungal disease can be improved by applying them at the optimal crop growth stage or early in disease development, ensuring their uniform distribution, and maintaining adequate population levels in the field [7, 75, 98].”
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“…groups on biological control (e.g., Cardinale et al., 2003; Alhadidi et al., 2019), functional diversity of natural enemies has been scarcely analysed in agroecosystems (Crowder & Jabbour 2014; Wood et al., 2015; but see Gagic et al., 2015; Martínez-Salinas et al., 2016; Greenop et al., 2018).”
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“…suitable microclimatic conditions, as well as reduce negative interactions such as intraguild predation and apparent competition, is important for promoting the coexistence of natural enemy species in the area (Crowder & Jabbour, 2014; Begg et al., 2017; Isbell et al., 2018; Perović et al., 2018).”
BackgroundConservation Biological Control of Insect Pests
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Ants provide biological control on tropical organic farms influenced by local and landscape factors
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Functionality and efficacy of Franklin Robotics’ Tertill ™ robotic weeder
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“Species abundance and richness of weed communities also vary across farms (Crowder and Jabbour 2014).”
BackgroundAssessing annual and perennial flowering plants for biological control in asparagus
Buchanan, A. L., Grieshop, M. J., & Szendrei, Z. (2018) · Biological Control · doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2018.08.013 · Cited by 21 · see citing works
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“2 inputs, cropping intensity and irrigation, and adoption of monoculture practices (Benton et al., 2003; Crowder and Jabbour, 2014; Meeus, 1993; Stoate et al., 2001).”
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Top-down and bottom-up regulation of codling moth populations in cider apple orchards
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“The biological control of agricultural pests by natural enemies can offer effective solutions for avoiding crop damages while reducing the negative environmental and health impacts of chemical pesticides (Landis et al., 2000; Crowder and Jabbour 2014; Demestihas et al., 2017).”
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Does the “Enemies Hypothesis” operate by enhancing natural enemy evenness?
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Natural enemies on the landscape – Integrating life-history theory and landscapes
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- Authors
- Crowder, D. W., & Jabbour, R.
- Affiliations
- Washington State University (US)
- University of Wyoming (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crowder, David W.
- Venue
- Biological Control
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-08
- Volume
- 75
- Pages
- 8-17
- ISSN
- 1049-9644 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2150622179
- Semantic Scholar
- af6b4dd74ce0a46ba04e0efe496b9b37d2cad4f7
- Cited by
- 204
- References
- 107
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 10.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biological Control (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant and soil sciences
- Keywords
- biodiversity, agroecosystems, agricultural intensification, natural enemy communities, arthropod pests, weed pests, species richness, species evenness, functional diversity, genetic diversity, ecosystem services, biodiversity management, pesticide use
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