Agricultural policy-induced landscape changes: effects on carabid abundance

0317463 - ÚVGZ 2009 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Ameixa, Olga - Kindlmann, Pavel
Agricultural policy-induced landscape changes: effects on carabid abundance.
[Vliv zemědělských postupů na množství střevlíkovitých brouků a jejich účinnost v biokontrole.]
European Journal of Entomology. Roč. 105, č. 4 (2008), s. 467-476. ISSN 1210-5759. E-ISSN 1802-8829
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC06073; GA ČR(CZ) GEDIV/06/E013
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60870520
Keywords : agricultural intensification * biocontrol * density * diversity * species richness * food webs * predatory pressure
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour

One of the most important services provided by biodiversity is thought to be the biological control of pests in agricultural landscapes, including aphids on cereals. The food webs potentially contributing to biological control of aphids primarily consist of polyphagous predators, parasitoids and pathogens. The problems of aphid pests have increased greatly since the 1970-ies, possibly as an effect of agricultural intensification, which is thought to have reduced diversity and abundance of these predators and parasites and consequently their biocontrol potential. The main objective of this study was to test this by measuring this potential for biological control of aphids, and relate it to agricultural intensification and predator abundance.

Hlavním cílem této studie bylo otestovat potenciál střevlíkovitých brouků v biologické kontrole mšic a vztáhnout jej k zemědělským postupům a množství predátorů.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0004937