Journal
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
Volume 332, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.107914
Keywords
Arthropod biodiversity; Ecosystem service; Landscape configuration; Olive groves
Funding
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain
- European Regional Development Fund [RTA2013-00039-C03-03]
- Santander-Universidad Complutense de Madrid [UCM PR87/19-22645]
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The abundance and richness of hymenopteran parasitoid (HP) families in olive groves are influenced by the landscape structure. Simple landscapes with dominant olive groves have a higher richness of HP families, while landscapes with higher diversity of land uses have a lower richness.
Farming systems maintain ecosystem services related to arthropod biodiversity, which need to be understood for its effective conservation. Some of these arthropods may also be enemies of crop pests. It has been shown that farming systems surrounded by other types of natural or semi-natural land covers/uses are less affected by pests. The abundance and richness of hymenopteran parasitoid (HP) families in olive groves were analysed along a gradient of complexity of the landscape surrounding these agroecosystems. The working hypothesis was that landscape structure is related to the abundance and richness of HP families. Through principal component analysis of samples analysed in 15 olive groves during the springs and autumns of 2015 and 2016, we found that a higher richness of HP families is associated to simple landscapes with olive grove predominance and a lower richness in landscapes with higher diversity of land uses. The most abundant families in olive-dominated landscapes were Pteromalidae, Encyrtidae and Eulophidae, and the least abundant were Elasmidae, Eupelmidae, Chrysididae, Platygastridae and Eurytomidae. In the most diverse olive grove landscapes only three families appeared: Mymaridae, the most abundant, and Diapriidae and Signiphoridae with lower abundance. Scelionidae was the most abundant family in all olive landscapes, both simple and complex. The greater richness and abundance of HP in olive-dominated landscapes does not guarantee biological control, but it does provide conservation of arthropod biodiversity as a cross-cutting ecosystem service.
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