‘Stability of biological regulation services’
The annual monitoring of biological control services, agricultural practices, and the landscape context of the 80 plots in the SEBIOPAG national network since 2014 constitutes a unique dataset for analyzing the temporal dimension of this service, an aspect that is still poorly documented in the literature. Our hypothesis is that not all combinations of practices implemented over a multi-year period on SEBIOPAG plots offer the same stability of service and taxonomic and functional characteristics of generalist predator communities. This project seeks to test these hypotheses by analyzing the interactions between crop system characteristics, landscape context, functional stability of carabid beetle communities, and stability of predation rates on four types of prey over five consecutive years on the 80 SEBIOPAG plots (some of which are in the Durance silt-valley workshop area).
OFB funding for 2020-2021
