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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages 175-186Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.003
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- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research [DE-SC0018409, DE-FC02-07ER64494]
- National Science Foundation Long-term Ecological Research Program at the Kellogg Biological Station [DEB 1832042]
- Michigan State University AgBioResearch
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Arthropod predators and parasitoids attack crop pests, providing a valuable ecosystem service. The amount of noncrop habitat surrounding crop fields influences pest suppression, but synthesis of new studies suggests that the spatial configuration of crops and other habitats is similarly important. Natural enemies are often more abundant in fine-grained agricultural landscapes comprising smaller patches and can increase or decrease with the connectivity of crop fields to other habitats. Partitioning organisms by traits has emerged as a promising way to predict the strength and direction of these effects. Furthermore, our ability to predict configurational effects will depend on understanding the potential for indirect effects among trophic levels and the relationship between arthropod dispersal capability and the spatial scale of underlying landscape structure.
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