Modelling natural pest control

Beskrivning

Predicting, managing and optimizing the provision of biodiversity-driven ecosystem services in croplands is a critical component of sustainable environmental management. Increasing losses to pests due to direct and indirect effects of climate change is predicted to hamper our future ability to produce enough food, feed and fibre. Natural biological control of insect pests remains difficult to predict beyond the crop level and system-specific attempts. This is likely due to the diversity in cropping systems and species communities, functional traits of key species, and the contrasting spatio-temporal landscape dynamics. In order to bridge this gap we have already, with BECC support (workshop April 2018) (i) set up a network of ecologists and biological control experts from Europe and North America (ii) developed archetypes of herbivore-natural-enemy cropping systems (iii) developed and validated joint qualitative and quantitative models that use a general framework but allow for differences in model structure between different crops and agroecosystems (i.e. between the archetypes), generating robust and testable predictions.

This workshop was funded by BECC.

Period	2019 juni 17 → 2019 juni 19
Typ av evenemang	Workshop
Plats	Lund, SverigeVisa på karta