The relative influence of agricultural abandonment and semi-natural habitats on parasitoid diversity and community composition
2024
Mazón, Marina | Bordera, Santiago | Rodríguez-Berrío, Alexander | Frago, Enric | Universidad de Alicante | Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM) | Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | This study was supported by the Projects BOS2000-0148 from Ministero de Ciencia y Tecnología (D.G.I.) of Spanish Government and GV06/271 from Conselleria d’Empresa, Universtitat i Ciència of Generalitat Valenciana (Spain). AR-B was financed by a PhD research grant MAE-AECI (2003-2006) of Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (Spanish Goverment). EF is currently funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) via the ANR ENEMYCOCKTAIL project and by CIRAD. | ANR-22-CE32-0009,ENEMYCOCKTAIL,Des cocktails d'ennemis naturels pour une meilleure lutte biologique(2022)
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Afficher plus [+] Moins [-]anglais. Wild biodiversity is usually larger in semi-natural habitats than in croplands, but this pattern is not ubiquitous because it varies among taxa and geographic regions. Knowing how the diversity of natural enemies is structured at the landscape level is important to better understand when semi-natural habitats promote the conservation of natural enemies and ultimately enhance biocontrol. We explore the relative influence of agricultural abandonment and the proportion of semi-natural habitats at the landscape level on the diversity and abundance of parasitoid wasps in the Ichneumonidae family. We studied changes in parasitoid diversity both at local and regional scales (i.e. alpha vs beta diversity), and both at the taxonomic and functional level (i.e. species vs guild identities). We extracted landscape features in circular buffers of varying radii to perform a multi-scale analysis, and to assess at which scale landscape-level effects influenced parasitoid assemblages. We found that parasitoid alpha and beta diversity decreased with an increasing proportion of semi-natural habitats. The multi-scale analysis revealed that for this group of natural enemies, landscape-level effects occur at mid to low distances (i.e. less than 500m). Our results provide insights into the origin of pest natural enemies, their spillover to croplands, and may help to understand under which circumstances semi-natural habitats fail at promoting biocontrol services.
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