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Nikolaos Alexandridis. Foto.

Nikos Alexandridis

Forskare

Nikolaos Alexandridis. Foto.

Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land-use change

Författare

  • Nikolaos Alexandridis
  • Glenn Marion
  • Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
  • Matteo Dainese
  • Johan Ekroos
  • Heather Grab
  • Mattias Jonsson
  • Daniel S Karp
  • Carsten Meyer
  • Megan E O'Rourke
  • Mikael Pontarp
  • Katja Poveda
  • Ralf Seppelt
  • Henrik G Smith
  • Richard J Walters
  • Yann Clough
  • Emily A Martin

Summary, in English

Control of crop pests by shifting host plant availability and natural enemy activity at landscape scales has great potential to enhance the sustainability of agriculture. However, mainstreaming natural pest control requires improved understanding of how its benefits can be realized across a variety of agroecological contexts. Empirical studies suggest significant but highly variable responses of natural pest control to land-use change. Current ecological models are either too specific to provide insight across agroecosystems, or too generic to guide management with actionable predictions. We suggest getting the full benefit of available empirical, theoretical and methodological knowledge, by combining trait-mediated understanding from correlative studies with the explicit representation of causal relationships achieved by mechanistic modeling. To link these frameworks, we adapt the concept of archetypes, or context-specific generalizations, from sustainability science. Similar responses of natural pest control to land-use gradients across cases that share key attributes, such as functional traits of focal organisms, indicate general processes that drive system behavior in a context-sensitive manner. Based on such observations of natural pest control, a systematic definition of archetypes can provide the basis for mechanistic models of intermediate generality that cover all major agroecosystems worldwide. Example applications demonstrate the potential for upscaling understanding and improving prediction of natural pest control, based on knowledge transfer and scientific synthesis. A broader application of this mechanistic archetype approach promises to enhance ecology's contribution to natural resource management across diverse regions and social-ecological contexts.

Avdelning/ar

  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • Teoretisk populationsekologi och evolution
  • Biodiversitet och bevarandevetenskap
  • Evolutionär ekologi
  • Lunds universitets hållbarhetsforum

Publiceringsår

2022-12

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Ecological Applications

Volym

32

Issue

8

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Ecological Society of America

Ämne

  • Ecology
  • Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use

Nyckelord

  • archetype
  • conservation biological control
  • crop
  • ecological model
  • land use
  • landscape
  • natural enemy
  • natural pest control
  • pest
  • upscale

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Enhancing biodiversity-based ecosystem services to crops though optimized densities of green infrastructure in agricultural landscapes

Forskningsgrupp

  • Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1051-0761