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Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields
Both field- and landscape-scale factors can influence the predator communities of agricultural pests, but the relative importance and interactions between these scales are poorly understood. Focusing on spiders, an important taxon for providing biological control, we tested the influence of field- a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32934310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71888-w |
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author | Saqib, Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Chen, Junhui Chen, Wei Pozsgai, Gabor Akutse, Komivi Senyo Ashraf, Muhammad Furqan You, Minsheng Gurr, Geoff M. |
author_facet | Saqib, Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Chen, Junhui Chen, Wei Pozsgai, Gabor Akutse, Komivi Senyo Ashraf, Muhammad Furqan You, Minsheng Gurr, Geoff M. |
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description | Both field- and landscape-scale factors can influence the predator communities of agricultural pests, but the relative importance and interactions between these scales are poorly understood. Focusing on spiders, an important taxon for providing biological control, we tested the influence of field- and landscape-scale factors on structuring the spider communities in a highly dynamic brassica agroecosystem. We found that local factors (pesticide-use and crop type) and forested landscape significantly influenced the abundance and species richness of spiders, whilst grassland patches significantly affected the spider species richness. Correlation results demonstrated that assemblage patterns of most spider families positively responded to the interplay between local factors and forest patches in the landscape. The spiders abundance was greatest in cauliflower crops surrounded with forest and grassland patches in landscape. Similarly, ordination analyses revealed that organic fields of cauliflower in forested landscapes had a strong positive association with the abundance and species richness of spiders. In contrast, insecticide and synthetic fertilizer-treated fields of Chinese cabbage in landscapes with little non-crop habitat reduced the abundance and species richness of spiders. Our results highlight the extent of interaction between local- and landscape-scale factors, help explain recently reported inconsistent effects of landscape factors on conservation biological control. |
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spelling | pubmed-74939352020-09-16 Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields Saqib, Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Chen, Junhui Chen, Wei Pozsgai, Gabor Akutse, Komivi Senyo Ashraf, Muhammad Furqan You, Minsheng Gurr, Geoff M. Sci Rep Article Both field- and landscape-scale factors can influence the predator communities of agricultural pests, but the relative importance and interactions between these scales are poorly understood. Focusing on spiders, an important taxon for providing biological control, we tested the influence of field- and landscape-scale factors on structuring the spider communities in a highly dynamic brassica agroecosystem. We found that local factors (pesticide-use and crop type) and forested landscape significantly influenced the abundance and species richness of spiders, whilst grassland patches significantly affected the spider species richness. Correlation results demonstrated that assemblage patterns of most spider families positively responded to the interplay between local factors and forest patches in the landscape. The spiders abundance was greatest in cauliflower crops surrounded with forest and grassland patches in landscape. Similarly, ordination analyses revealed that organic fields of cauliflower in forested landscapes had a strong positive association with the abundance and species richness of spiders. In contrast, insecticide and synthetic fertilizer-treated fields of Chinese cabbage in landscapes with little non-crop habitat reduced the abundance and species richness of spiders. Our results highlight the extent of interaction between local- and landscape-scale factors, help explain recently reported inconsistent effects of landscape factors on conservation biological control. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7493935/ /pubmed/32934310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71888-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Saqib, Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Chen, Junhui Chen, Wei Pozsgai, Gabor Akutse, Komivi Senyo Ashraf, Muhammad Furqan You, Minsheng Gurr, Geoff M. Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields |
title | Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields |
title_full | Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields |
title_fullStr | Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields |
title_full_unstemmed | Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields |
title_short | Local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields |
title_sort | local management and landscape structure determine the assemblage patterns of spiders in vegetable fields |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32934310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71888-w |
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