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Intra-annual variation and landscape composition interactively affect aphid community composition

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posted on 2023-05-20, 04:11 authored by Susan ClaflinSusan Claflin, Hernandez, N, Groves, R, Thaler, JS, Power, AG
Agricultural intensification impacts local arthropod communities. The temporal and spatial variation of agricultural environments can have a significant impact on insect pest populations, yet little work has been done to date on the effect of intra-annual variation (within season) or spatiotemporal effects on arthropod functional community composition. The aim of this research was to evaluate the effects of intra-annual variation and landscape composition on the aphid community. To that end, we investigated the following research question: How do intra-annual variation and landscape composition affect aphid abun- dance, species richness, and functional community composition? In this study, we quantified landscape com- position as percent cropland, intra-annual variation as sampling week measured throughout the growing season, and aphid functional community composition as crop virus transmission—or vectoring—ability. We collected data in two agricultural regions: a diversified agricultural region in New York State (NY) and an agriculturally intense potato-growing region in Wisconsin (WI). We found that the interactive effect of land- scape composition and intra-annual variation significantly affected aphid abundance and species richness in both study regions, and functional community composition in NY. These results indicate that spatiotempo- ral shifts in agroecosystems have significant implications for aphid functional community composition.

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Publication title

Ecosphere

Volume

10

Issue

5

Article number

e02710

Number

e02710

Pagination

1-13

ISSN

2150-8925

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Publisher

Ecological Society of America

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright 2019 The Authors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Agricultural and environmental standards and calibrations

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