Extrapolating potential crop damage by insect pests based on land use data: examining inter-regional generality in agricultural landscapes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inter-regional relationships between landscape factors and biological responses in natural conditions are important but difficult to predict because of the differences in each landscape context and local environment. To examine the inter-regional variability in relation to landscape factors and the biological response of an insect pest of rice, Stenotus rubrovittatus, we extrapolated a damage prediction model (the 'original model' of our previous study) for rice using land-use data. The 'original model' comprised as fixed factors the area of source habitat (i.e. pastures and graminoid-dominated fallow fields), soybean fields, and rice paddies within 300-m radii with research years as the random intercept. We hypothesized that the original model would be applicable to new

SUBMITTER: Tabuchi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9131665 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature