Habitat Management to Conserve Natural Enemies of Arthropod Pests in Agriculture
Many agroecosystems are unfavorable environments for natural enemies due to high levels of disturbance. Habitat management, a form of conservation biological control, is an ecologically based approach aimed at favoring natural enemies and enhancing biological control in agricultural systems. The goa...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Annual review of entomology 2000-01, Vol.45 (1), p.175-201 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Many agroecosystems are unfavorable environments for natural enemies due to
high levels of disturbance. Habitat management, a form of conservation
biological control, is an ecologically based approach aimed at favoring natural
enemies and enhancing biological control in agricultural systems. The goal of
habitat management is to create a suitable ecological infrastructure within the
agricultural landscape to provide resources such as food for adult natural
enemies, alternative prey or hosts, and shelter from adverse conditions. These
resources must be integrated into the landscape in a way that is spatially and
temporally favorable to natural enemies and practical for producers to
implement. The rapidly expanding literature on habitat management is reviewed
with attention to practices for favoring predators and parasitoids,
implementation of habitat management, and the contributions of modeling and
ecological theory to this developing area of conservation biological control.
The potential to integrate the goals of habitat management for natural enemies
and nature conservation is discussed. |
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ISSN: | 0066-4170 1545-4487 |
DOI: | 10.1146/annurev.ento.45.1.175 |