Long-term data in agricultural landscapes indicate that insect decline promotes pests well adapted to environmental changes
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Published:2023-10-24
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ISSN:1612-4758
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Container-title:Journal of Pest Science
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J Pest Sci
Author:
Ziesche Tim M.,Ordon Frank,Schliephake Edgar,Will Torsten
Abstract
AbstractIncreasing evidence suggests that land-use intensification contributes to destabilization of trophic networks of insect communities in agriculture resulting in a loss of biodiversity. However, a more detailed understanding of the causes and consequences of the widely reported insect decline is still lacking. Here, we used standardised daily long-term data on the activity of flying insects (~ 250 d/year) to describe the interactive effects of climate warming in intensively cultivated regions and changes in predatory taxa on the general long-term trend of insects and the regulation of herbivores. While the intensely managed landscapes examined in this study show a substantial decline in several taxonomic groups (95.1% total biomass loss in 24 year), the data on aphids support a general assumption that biodiversity loss is often closely associated with arising pest problems. Aphids being pests in agroecosystems develop earlier in spring in overall higher annual abundances. The data highlight that regional insect abundances have declined over recent decades in agricultural landscapes, thus indicating fundamental effects on food webs and insect herbivore performance.
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Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Agronomy and Crop Science,Insect Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Plant Science,Ecology
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