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Coverage and invariance for the biological control of pests in mediterranean greenhouses

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  • Lloret-Climent, Miguel
  • Amorós-Jiménez, Rocco
  • González-Franco, Lucía
  • Nescolarde-Selva, Josué-Antonio

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A major problem related to the treatment of ecosystems is that they have no available mathematical formalization. This implies that many of their properties are not presented as short, rigorous modalities, but rather as long expressions which, from a biological standpoint, totally capture the significance of the property, but which have the disadvantage of not being sufficiently manageable, from a mathematical standpoint. The interpretation of ecosystems through networks allows us to employ the concepts of coverage and invariance alongside other related concepts. The latter will allow us to present the two most important relations in an ecosystem – predator–prey and competition – in a different way. Biological control, defined as “the use of living organisms, their resources or their products to prevent or reduce loss or damage caused by pests”, is now considered the environmentally safest and most economically advantageous method of pest control (van Lenteren, 2011). A guild includes all those organisms that share a common food resource (Polis et al., 1989), which in the context of biological control means all the natural enemies of a given pest. There are several types of intraguild interactions, but the one that has received most research attention is intraguild predation, which occurs when two organisms share the same prey while at the same time participating in some kind of trophic interaction. However, this is not the only intraguild relationship possible, and studies are now being conducted on others, such as oviposition deterrence. In this article, we apply the developed concepts of structural functions, coverage, invariant sets, etc. (Lloret et al., 1998; Esteve and Lloret, 2006a,b, 2007) to a tritrophic system that includes aphids, one of the most damaging pests and a current bottleneck for the success of biological control in Mediterranean greenhouses.

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  • Lloret-Climent, Miguel & Amorós-Jiménez, Rocco & González-Franco, Lucía & Nescolarde-Selva, Josué-Antonio, 2014. "Coverage and invariance for the biological control of pests in mediterranean greenhouses," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 292(C), pages 37-44.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:292:y:2014:i:c:p:37-44
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.08.023
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