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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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Metadata
- 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
- 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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