Land use around influences the entomological community in lettuce horticultural systems
Author
Silva-Neto, Carlos M.
Santos, L. A. C.
Bernardes, M. M.
Salas, C.
Valdés, C.
Muñoz-Quezada, M. T.
Araujo, R. O.
Date
2024Metadata
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The complexity of the agroecosystem can also be assessed by the different land uses in the system and the surroundings, being a relevant way to assess the heterogeneity of the landscape and the effects on the community of interest, in this case, entomofauna. Thus, the objective of this work is to verify how the use of soil in the surroundings of Chilean lettuce horticultural systems, in the Coquimbo Region, alters the entomological community of the crop. Insect sampling was conducted (February 2021 to March 2022) using yellow pan traps. Two sites will be sampled on each of the seven studied lettuce crops. Land use and land cover classes were defined: Forests, water bodies, shrub vegetation, grasslands, barren lands, impermeable surfaces, and urban areas. After land use and land cover classification, buffers of 500 to 5,000 m were created around each data collection point. For data analysis, the percentages of land use of different classes were compared with the ecological attributes: Abundance of insects, abundance of insect pests, richness of entomological families and types of oral apparatus (licker-sucker, mandible, picker-sucker, and sucker). Land uses at different distances from horticultural systems affected the entomological community.
Fuente
Brazilian journal of biology, 84, e282077Identificador DOI
doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.282077Collections
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