The Community Ecology of Herbivore Regulation in an Agroecosystem: Lessons from Complex Systems

Autor: Gustavo Lopez-Bautista, Shinsuke Uno, Hsun-Yi Hsieh, David J. Gonthier, Aaron L. Iverson, Gordon Fitch, Katherine K. Ennis, Kaitlyn A. Mathis, Jonathan R. Morris, Ash T. Zemenick, Theresa Wei Ying Ong, Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, Chatura Vaiyda, Iris Saraeny Rivera-Salinas, Ivan V. Monagan, Douglas Jackson, Shalene Jha, Inge Armbrecht, Linda Marín, Aldo De la Mora, Heidi Liere, Ashley E. Larsen, John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto, Gabriella L. Pardee, Kimberly Williams-Guillén, Senay Yitbarek, Kevin Li, Andrew J. MacDonald, Esteli Jimenez-Soto, Stacy M. Philpott
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: BIOSCIENCE, vol 69, iss 12
BioScience, vol 69, iss 12
ISSN: 1525-3244
0006-3568
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz127
Popis: Author(s): Vandermeer, John; Armbrecht, Inge; De la Mora, Aldo; Ennis, Katherine K; Fitch, Gordon; Gonthier, David J; Hajian-Forooshani, Zachary; Hsieh, Hsun-Yi; Iverson, Aaron; Jackson, Douglas; Jha, Shalene; Jimenez-Soto, Esteli; Lopez-Bautista, Gustavo; Larsen, Ashley; Li, Kevin; Liere, Heidi; Macdonald, Andrew; Marin, Linda; Mathis, Kaitlyn A; Monagan, Ivan; Morris, Jonathan R; Ong, Theresa; Pardee, Gabriella L; Rivera-Salinas, Iris Saraeny; Vaiyda, Chatura; Williams-Guillen, Kimberly; Yitbarek, Senay; Uno, Shinsuke; Zemenick, Ash; Philpott, Stacy M; Perfecto, Ivette | Abstract: AbstractWhether an ecological community is controlled from above or below remains a popular framework that continues generating interesting research questions and takes on especially important meaning in agroecosystems. We describe the regulation from above of three coffee herbivores, a leaf herbivore (the green coffee scale, Coccus viridis), a seed predator (the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei), and a plant pathogen (the coffee rust disease, caused by Hemelia vastatrix) by various natural enemies, emphasizing the remarkable complexity involved. We emphasize the intersection of this classical question of ecology with the burgeoning field of complex systems, including references to chaos, critical transitions, hysteresis, basin or boundary collision, and spatial self-organization, all aimed at the applied question of pest control in the coffee agroecosystem.
Databáze: OpenAIRE