Addressing context dependence in studies of plant diversity to improve the understanding of natural enemy conservation

IF 5.8 1区农林科学 Q1 BIOLOGY

Current opinion in insect science Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2024.101202

Lessando M Gontijo

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Abstract

Increasing plant diversity has become a major aspect of habitat management and natural enemy conservation. Nonetheless, the results of plant diversity studies have varied significantly within and across agroecosystems. This variation has often been ascribed to a condition known as context dependence. However, concluding plainly that results are context dependent does not allow for the understanding of the actual underlying causes. Therefore, I discuss in this paper the importance of identifying and dealing with context dependence. I specifically comment on common biotic and abiotic inherent variables that can drive context dependence. The most common context types explored herein are location, time, nonfocal plant and crop species, and natural enemy species. Finally, I offer several recommendations for identifying and dealing with context dependence. I believe understanding the different forms in which context dependence arises is paramount to reduce unexplained variation and improve the predictability of plant diversity studies.

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解决植物多样性研究中的环境依赖问题，提高对天敌保护的认识。

增加植物多样性已成为栖息地管理和天敌保护的一个重要方面。然而，植物多样性研究的结果在农业生态系统内部和之间存在很大差异。这种差异通常被归因于一种被称为 "环境依赖性 "的条件。然而，简单地断定研究结果与环境有关，并不能理解其真正的根本原因。因此，我在本文中讨论了识别和处理环境依赖性的重要性。我特别评论了可能导致环境依赖性的常见生物和非生物固有变量。本文探讨的最常见环境类型包括地点、时间、非重点植物和作物物种以及天敌物种。最后，我为识别和处理环境依赖性提出了一些建议。我相信，要减少无法解释的变异并提高植物多样性研究的可预测性，了解环境依赖性产生的不同形式至关重要。

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Current opinion in insect science BIOLOGYECOLOGYENTOMOLOGY-ECOLOGY

CiteScore

10.40

自引率

1.90%

发文量

113

期刊介绍： Current Opinion in Insect Science is a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up–to–date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Insect Science. As this is such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections each of which is reviewed once a year. The following 11 areas are covered by Current Opinion in Insect Science. -Ecology -Insect genomics -Global Change Biology -Molecular Physiology (Including Immunity) -Pests and Resistance -Parasites, Parasitoids and Biological Control -Behavioural Ecology -Development and Regulation -Social Insects -Neuroscience -Vectors and Medical and Veterinary Entomology There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. Section Editors, who are major authorities in their area, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission articles from leading scientists on each topic that they have selected and the commissioned authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.