Effect of local and landscape factors on abundance of ground beetles and assessment of their role as biocontrol agents in the olive growing area of southeastern Madrid, Spain

Designing biological control strategies for the olive fruit fly ( Bactrocera oleae (Rossi)) by predators requires the study of their biology and effectiveness. In this work, we have studied the relationship between ground beetle activity density and local (soil condition) and landscape factors in th...

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Published inBioControl (Dordrecht, Netherlands) Vol. 64; no. 6; pp. 685 - 696
Main Authors Lantero, Esther, Ortega, Marta, Sánchez-Ramos, Ismael, González-Núñez, Manuel, Fernández, Cristina E., Rescia, Alejandro J, Matallanas, Beatriz, Callejas, Carmen, Pascual, Susana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Agriculture
Animal Biochemistry
Animal Ecology
Arthropods
Bactrocera oleae
Beetles
Behavioral Sciences
Biological control
Biological effects
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Carabidae
Coleoptera
Crops
Density
Dominant species
Entomology
Information systems
Insects
Life Sciences
Pest control
Plant Pathology
Predation
Predators
Soil structure
Soils
Vegetation
Madrid Spain
Spain
Soil condition
Barcode gene COI
Landscape
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Summary:Designing biological control strategies for the olive fruit fly ( Bactrocera oleae (Rossi)) by predators requires the study of their biology and effectiveness. In this work, we have studied the relationship between ground beetle activity density and local (soil condition) and landscape factors in the olive area of southeastern Madrid, as well as the efficiency of the most abundant species, Orthomus barbarus (Dejean) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) by functional response experiments. Also, O. barbarus has been described for the first time by molecular methods through the barcode gene COI. The two dominant species, O. barbarus and Pterostichus globosus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) showed different responses to landscape structure, but soil condition was more relevant than landscape structure for both species, and for activity density of ground beetles as a whole. P. globosus is more efficient than O. barbarus , and it is possible that in the study area other taxa are relevant as B. oleae predators.
ISSN:1386-6141
1573-8248
DOI:10.1007/s10526-019-09974-w