Stability lies in flowers: Plant diversification mediating shifts in arthropod food webs.

ABSTRACT: Arthropod community composition in agricultural landscapes is dependent on habitat characteristics, such as plant composition, landscape homogeneity and the presence of key resources, which are usually absent in monocultures. Manipulating agroecosystems through the insertion of in-field floral resources is a useful technique to reduce the deleterious effects of habitat simplification. Food web analysis can clarify how the community reacts to the presence of floral resources which favour ecosystem services such as biological control of pest species. Here, we reported quantitative and qualitative alterations in arthropod food web complexity due to the presence of floral resources from the Mexican marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) in a field scale lettuce community network. The presence of marigol

SUBMITTER: Haro MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815608 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature