Claim · model-written summary
Fewer cereal aphids were consumed by beetles in unsprayed plots than in herbicide-treated plots
- Taxon
- spring wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- unsprayed plotse2
- Interactor
- cereal aphidse2pest
- Second interactor
- beetlesColeopterae2biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- cereal aphids were consumede2
- Direction
- fewere2
- Comparator
- herbicide-treatede1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The arthropod faunas of herbicide-treated and untreated headland plots of a spring wheat crop were compared in a replicated within-field experiment in Hampshire, England”
e2“As a consequence fewer cereal aphids were consumed by beetles in unsprayed plots”
Title
The Effects of Beneficial Arthropods of the Exclusion of Herbicides from Cereal Crop Edges
P. A. Chiverton; N. W. Sotherton Journal of Applied Ecology 1991. doi:10.2307/2404223
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had more weed species than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had higher weed densities than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had greater weed biomass than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had a higher percentage weed cover than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots supported significantly higher densities of nontarget arthropods than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots contained higher densities of predatory arthropod groups
- Intervention effect Pterostichus melanarius from untreated plots had significantly more gut sections containing solid arthropod food remains
- Intervention effect Agonum dorsale from untreated plots had significantly more gut sections containing solid arthropod food remains
- Intervention effect Carabid beetles took significantly more meals in untreated plots
- Intervention effect Carabid beetles preyed upon a wider variety of arthropod food in untreated plots
- Intervention effect Carabid beetles collected from untreated plots had higher numbers of eggs per female
- Intervention effect Total pitfall trap catch of Pterostichus melanarius did not differ significantly between treated and untreated plots
- Intervention effect Total pitfall trap catch of Agonum dorsale did not differ significantly between treated and untreated plots
- Intervention effect Agonum dorsale females were caught in significantly greater proportion in treated plots than in untreated plots