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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2023

Both long-term grasslands and crop diversity are needed to limit pest and weed infestations in agricultural landscapes

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Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to be an important strategy to strengthen natural pest control in crops, especially through enhancing the amount of seminatural habitats. Increasing crop diversity is also a promising strategy to complement or replace seminatural habitat when seminatural habitat is scarce. However, their relative or possibly interactive effects on pest and weed infestation remain poorly investigated, and the role of different types of seminatural habitats has been understudied. Using an extensive sampling effort in 974 arable fields across 7 y, we evaluated the separate and interactive effects of crop diversity (seven arable crop types) and the amount of four types of seminatural habitats (meadows, hay, forests, and hedgerows) in the landscape on pest and weed control. Meadows and crop diversity, respectively, supported insect pest and weed control services in agricultural landscapes through a complementarity effect. Crop diversity increased weed seed predation rate (by 16%) and reduced weed infestation (by 6%), whereas long-term grasslands (to a much higher degree than hay or woody habitats) increased insect pest predation rates (by 23%) and reduced pest infestation (by 19%) in most arable crops. Our results demonstrate that diversification of the agricultural landscape requires long-term grasslands as well as improved crop diversity to ensure the delivery of efficient pest and weed control services.
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hal-04353379 , version 1 (08-01-2024)

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Thomas Perrot, Adrien Rusch, Sabrina Gaba, Vincent Bretagnolle. Both long-term grasslands and crop diversity are needed to limit pest and weed infestations in agricultural landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023, 120 (49), pp.e2300861120. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2300861120⟩. ⟨hal-04353379⟩
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