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Article Dans Une Revue Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment Année : 2022

Local management and landscape composition affect predatory mites in European wine-growing regions

Adrien Rusch

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Sustainable land use in agricultural landscapes is essential to counteract the global decline of biodiversity, as well to ensure ecosystem services like natural pest control. Phytoseiid mites are key natural enemies of pest mites in vineyards but how local management and landscape context affect phytoseiid mites remains poorly known. In this study, we examined the effects of farming systems, inter-row management and landscape composition on phytoseiid mite communities in 156 vineyards across five European wine-growing regions. Our results showed that phytoseiid communities were mainly dominated by one or two phytoseiid species across Europe and that local management was a major factor affecting population densities. According to the wine-growing regions, phytoseiid mite densities benefited from integrated pest management or conventional farming compared to organic farming and from spontaneous vegetation cover compared to seeded cover crops. Moreover, mite densities benefited from increasing proportions of vineyards at the landscape scale. The farming systems effects were most likely related to the positive impact of the lower pesticide use in integrated and conventional vineyards. The positive effect of spontaneous vegetation cover could be related to a better supply of nutritive pollen as food resource compared to seeded cover crops, which depends on the plant species in the inter-row. Our findings indicated accordingly that a reduced pesticide use, and inter-row management are crucial factors for promoting pest control by predatory mites in European vineyards. Moreover, the proportion of viticultural area in the landscape is a considerable factor to retain stable phytoseiid mite populations.
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hal-04115304 , version 1 (02-06-2023)

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Stefan Möth, Sylvie Richart-Cervera, Maria Comsa, Rafael Alcalá Herrera, Christoph Hoffmann, et al.. Local management and landscape composition affect predatory mites in European wine-growing regions. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2022, 344, pp.108292. ⟨10.1016/j.agee.2022.108292⟩. ⟨hal-04115304⟩
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