Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest Management
One of the ecosystem services of biodiversity is the contribution to pest control through conservation and stimulation of natural enemies. However, whether plant diversity around greenhouses is beneficial or a potential risk is heavily debated. In this review, we argue that most greenhouse pests in...
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| author | Gerben J. Messelink Jérôme Lambion Arne Janssen Paul C. J. van Rijn |
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| description | One of the ecosystem services of biodiversity is the contribution to pest control through conservation and stimulation of natural enemies. However, whether plant diversity around greenhouses is beneficial or a potential risk is heavily debated. In this review, we argue that most greenhouse pests in temperate climates are of exotic origin and infest greenhouses mainly through transportation of plant material. For indigenous pests, we discuss the potential ways in which plant diversity around greenhouses can facilitate or prevent pest migrations into greenhouses. As shown in several studies, an important benefit of increased plant diversity around greenhouses is the stimulation of indigenous natural enemies that migrate to greenhouses, where they suppress both indigenous and exotic pests. How this influx can be supported by specific plant communities, plant characteristics, and habitats while minimising risks of increasing greenhouse pest densities, virus transmission, or hyperparasitism needs further studies. It also requires a better understanding of the underlying processes that link biodiversity with pest management. Inside greenhouses, plant biodiversity can also support biological control. We summarise general methods that growers can use to enhance pest control with functional biodiversity and suggest that it is particularly important to study how biodiversity inside and outside greenhouses can be linked to enhancement of biological pest control with both released and naturally occurring species of natural enemies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8593d23490464c9e9cfd6aa944f5f06e2023-11-22T18:39:53ZengMDPI AGInsects2075-44502021-10-01121093310.3390/insects12100933Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest ManagementGerben J. Messelink0Jérôme Lambion1Arne Janssen2Paul C. J. van Rijn3BU Greenhouse Horticulture, Wageningen Research, Violierenweg 1, 2665 MV Bleiswijk, The NetherlandsGroupe de Recherche and Agriculture Biologique (GRAB), Maison de la Bio 255, Chemin de la Castelette, 84911 Avignon, FranceIBED, Department Evolutionary and Population Biology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The NetherlandsIBED, Department Evolutionary and Population Biology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The NetherlandsOne of the ecosystem services of biodiversity is the contribution to pest control through conservation and stimulation of natural enemies. However, whether plant diversity around greenhouses is beneficial or a potential risk is heavily debated. In this review, we argue that most greenhouse pests in temperate climates are of exotic origin and infest greenhouses mainly through transportation of plant material. For indigenous pests, we discuss the potential ways in which plant diversity around greenhouses can facilitate or prevent pest migrations into greenhouses. As shown in several studies, an important benefit of increased plant diversity around greenhouses is the stimulation of indigenous natural enemies that migrate to greenhouses, where they suppress both indigenous and exotic pests. How this influx can be supported by specific plant communities, plant characteristics, and habitats while minimising risks of increasing greenhouse pest densities, virus transmission, or hyperparasitism needs further studies. It also requires a better understanding of the underlying processes that link biodiversity with pest management. Inside greenhouses, plant biodiversity can also support biological control. We summarise general methods that growers can use to enhance pest control with functional biodiversity and suggest that it is particularly important to study how biodiversity inside and outside greenhouses can be linked to enhancement of biological pest control with both released and naturally occurring species of natural enemies.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/10/933biological controlecosystem servicesfunctional agrobiodiversityplant diversityparasitoidspredators |
| spellingShingle | Gerben J. Messelink Jérôme Lambion Arne Janssen Paul C. J. van Rijn Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest Management Insects biological control ecosystem services functional agrobiodiversity plant diversity parasitoids predators |
| title | Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest Management |
| title_full | Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest Management |
| title_fullStr | Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest Management |
| title_short | Biodiversity in and around Greenhouses: Benefits and Potential Risks for Pest Management |
| title_sort | biodiversity in and around greenhouses benefits and potential risks for pest management |
| topic | biological control ecosystem services functional agrobiodiversity plant diversity parasitoids predators |
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