Simulating changes in cropping practices in conventional and glyphosate-resistant maize. II. Weed impacts on crop production and biodiversity
2017
Colbach, Nathalie | Darmency, Henri | Fernier, Alice | Granger, Sylvie | Le Corre, Valérie | Messean, Antoine | Agroécologie [Dijon] ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC) | Unité Impacts Ecologiques des Innovations en Production Végétale (ECO-INNOV) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) | INRA, the European project AMIGA (Assessing and Monitoring Impacts of Genetically modified plants on Agro-ecosystems) [FP7-KBBE-2011-5-CP-CSA]; French project CoSAC [ANR-14-CE18-0007]; research programme "Assessing and reducing environmental risks from plant protection products" - French Ministry in charge of Ecology; research programme "Assessing and reducing environmental risks from plant protection products" - French Ministry in charge of Agriculture | ANR-14-CE18-0007,CoSAC,Conception de Stratégies durables de gestion des Adventices dans un contexte de Changement (climat, pratiques agricoles, biodiversité)(2014)
Overreliance on the same herbicide mode of action leads to the spread of resistant weeds, which cancels the advantages of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops. Here, the objective was to quantify, with simulations, the impact of glyphosate-resistant (GR) weeds on crop production and weed-related wild biodiversity in HT maize-based cropping systems differing in terms of management practices. We (1) simulated current conventional and probable HT cropping systems in two European regions, Aquitaine and Catalonia, with the weed dynamics model FlorSys; (2) quantified how much the presence of GR weeds contributed to weed impacts on crop production and biodiversity; (3) determined the effect of cultural practices on the impact of GR weeds and (4) identified which species traits most influence weed-impact indicators. The simulation study showed that during the analysed 28 years, the advent of glyphosate resistance had little effect on plant biodiversity. Glyphosate-susceptible populations and species were replaced by GR ones. Including GR weeds only affected functional biodiversity (food offer for birds, bees and carabids) and weed harmfulness when weed effect was initially low; when weed effect was initially high, including GR weeds had little effect. The GR effect also depended on cultural practices, e.g. GR weeds were most detrimental for species equitability when maize was sown late. Species traits most harmful for crop production and most beneficial for biodiversity were identified, using RLQ analyses. None of the species presenting these traits belonged to a family for which glyphosate resistance was reported. An advice table was built; the effects of cultural practices on crop production and biodiversity were synthesized, explained, quantified and ranked, and the optimal choices for each management technique were identified.
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