Effects of ground cover management on insect predators and pests in a mediterranean vineyard
| Autor: | Sergio Ibáñez-Pascual, Vicente S. Marco-Mancebón, Elena Martínez-Villar, Ignacio Pérez-Moreno, María Gloria Sáenz-Romo, Ariadna Veas-Bernal, Héctor Martínez-García, Raquel Campos-Herrera |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Universidad de La Rioja, Sáenz-Romo, María Gloria, Ibáñez Pascual, Sergio, Martínez-Villar, Elena, Campos-Herrera, R., Sáenz-Romo, María Gloria [0000-0002-5987-1295], Ibáñez Pascual, Sergio [0000-0003-0102-0516], Martínez-Villar, Elena [0000-0001-8291-8541], Campos-Herrera, R. [0000-0003-0852-5269] |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | RIUR. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Rioja instname Insects Volume 10 Issue 12 Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| Popis: | Conservative techniques, such as ground cover management, could help promote viticulture sustainability, which is a goal of conservation biological control, by providing shelter and food sources for predatory insects. A field experiment was conducted in a Mediterranean vineyard to evaluate ground cover management impacts on predatory insect and potential grapevine pest abundance and diversity, both on the ground and in the grapevine canopy. Three different ground cover management techniques (tillage, spontaneous cover and flower-driven cover) were tested for two years (2016 and 2017). Overall, the ground cover management significantly affected the abundance of important epigeal predators, of which carabids, forficulids and staphylinids were the most captured. The carabid abundances under both the cover crop treatments were found to be approximately three times higher compared with that under the tillage treatment. In contrast, the canopy insect abundance in the vineyard was similar among the treatments for both the predators and the potential grapevine pest species. These results indicate that cover crop vegetation can be used in vineyards to enhance predatory insect abundance and may improve agroecosystem resilience This research was funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (AGL2014-53336R). M.G.S.-R. and A.V.-B. were supported by fellowships from the University of La Rioja (Spain) (FPI-UR 2015 and 2018, respectively). R.C.-H. is currently supported by a Ramón y Cajal award (RYC-2016-19939 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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