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Landscape-scale approaches for enhancing biological pest control in agricultural systems

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Over the last decades, land management options have been investigated that aim at enhancing services to agriculture delivered by biodiversity and its associated biotic interactions. Such services can be promoted through land management strategies ranging from in-field single agricultural practices, long-term strategies compiling these agricultural practices at the crop rotation scale, to management strategies at the landscape scale. In this paper, we provide an overview of the land management options that can be implemented at multiple scales, with a specific focus on the provision of one service that is key in agriculture, i.e. pest control. We present existing knowledge and highlight current gaps and limitations in our understanding of pest control response to land management. Based on this analysis, we propose two promising and complementary research approaches that could help filling existing knowledge gaps and provide guidelines for designing landscapes for agroecological services: (1) landscape monitoring networks (LMN), based on long-term monitoring of ecological and managerial processes within sets of landscapes located in contrasted production contexts; (2) agroecological system experiments (ASE), which design and assess combinations of land management options at multiple embedded spatial scales.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank all members of the SEBIOPAG consortium who have contributed to the set-up and maintenance of the network since 2013, in particular Claire Lavigne and Pierre Franck (Avignon), Benoit Ricci, Luc Biju-Duval (Dijon), Stéphanie Aviron, Audrey Alignier, Alexandre Joannon, Manuel Plantegenest (Rennes), Aude Vialatte, Sylvie Ladet, Gérard Balent (Toulouse). The SEBIOPAG network is financially supported by INRA (DS Environment), via the Agence Française de la Biodiversité AFB (project FRB-EcoPhyto SEBIOPAG-Phyto) and associated projects conducted locally by members of the SEBIOPAG consortium.

The CA-SYS platform is coordinated by Stephane Cordeau and Violaine Deytieux. The authors thank the CA-SYS team, including in addition to the authors Judith Burstin, Philippe Lemanceau, Nicolas Munier-Jolain, Christian Steinberg (UMR Agroécologie—INRA Dijon) and Pascal Marget (UE Domaine d’Epoisses—INRA Dijon). We also acknowledge all the staff from the experimental farm that every day they strive for making CA-SYS existing. We thank all the people who took part of the workshops to design cropping systems and semi-natural habitats. The CA-SYS platform is financially supported by INRA, the French „Investissements d’Avenir“ programme and the project ISITE-BFC (contract ANR-15-IDEX-03), the French ministries for agriculture and environment and the Agence Française de la Biodiversité AFB Ecophyto plan (DEPHY Expe II project ABC “Agroécologie en Bourgogne et Région Centre”), the Casdar projects RAID (Biological control of weeds) and Vancouver (Weeds management with cover crop).

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Petit, S., Deytieux, V. & Cordeau, S. Landscape-scale approaches for enhancing biological pest control in agricultural systems. Environ Monit Assess 193 (Suppl 1), 75 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08812-2

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