Monitoring Arthropods in Azorean Agroecosystems: the project AGRO-ECOSERVICES.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The data we present are part of the AGRO-ECOSERVICES project (Assessing ecosystem services and disservices provided by arthropod species in Azorean agroecosystems). The project aims to evaluate the relative importance of native and non-native organisms as ecosystem services (ES) and disservices (ED) providers, by combining novel, direct and quantitative tools for monitoring agro-biodiversity. Ecosystem services include evaluation of natural pest control by predation, seed predation on weed plants, pollination, decomposition and ecosystem disservices, herbivory and seed predation on crop plants. Active Aerial Searching (AAS) (only in maize-fields) and pitfall traps were used to sample the arthropod biodiversity (predatory spiders, true-bugs and beetles and main insect pes

SUBMITTER: Borges PAV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8677710 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature