A food web approach reveals the vulnerability of biocontrol services by birds and bats to landscape modification at regional scale
| dc.contributor.author | Herrera, José M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jiménez Navarro, Gerardo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barreiro, Silvia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Melguizo Ruiz, Nereida | |
| dc.contributor.author | Moreira, Francisco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vasconcelos, Sasha | |
| dc.contributor.author | Morgado, Rui | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodríguez Pérez, Javier | |
| dc.contributor.department | Ciencias de la Salud | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Osasun Zientziak | eu |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-05T11:01:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-05T11:01:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Pest control services provided by naturally occurring species (the so-called biocontrol services) are widely recognized to provide key incentives for biodiversity conservation. This is particularly relevant for vertebrate-mediated biocontrol services as many vertebrate species are of conservation concern, with most of their decline associated to landscape modification for agricultural purposes. Yet, we still lack rigorous approaches evaluating landscape-level correlates of biocontrol potential by vertebrates over broad spatial extents to better inform land-use and management decisions. We performed a spatially-explicit interaction-based assessment of potential biocontrol services in Portugal, using 1853 pairwise trophic interactions between 78 flying vertebrate species (birds and bats) and 53 insect pests associated to two widespread and economically valuable crops in the Euro-Mediterranean region, olive groves (Olea europaea subsp. europaea) and vineyards (Vitis vinifera subsp. vinifera). The study area was framed using 1004 square cells, each 10 × 10 km in size. Potential biocontrol services were determined at all those 10 × 10 km grid-cells in which each crop was present as the proportion of the realized out of all potential pairwise interactions between vertebrates and pests. Landscape correlates of biocontrol potential were also explored. Our work suggests that both birds and bats can effectively provide biocontrol services in olive groves and vineyards as they prey many insect pest species associated to both crops. Moreover, it demonstrates that these potential services are impacted by landscape-scale features and that this impact is consistent when evaluated over broad spatial extents. Thus, biocontrol potential by vertebrates significantly increases with increasing amount of natural area, while decreases with increasing area devoted to target crops, particularly olive groves. Overall, our study highlights the suitability of our interaction-based approach to perform spatially-explicit assessments of potential biocontrol services by vertebrates at local spatial scales and suggest its utility for integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services in conservation planning over broad spatial extents. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the projects ECOLIVES (PTDC/AAG-REC/6480/2014) and OLEAdapt (PTDC/ BIA-CBI/1365/2020) both funded by the Portuguese National Public Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, and the project SHOWCASE (ref. 862480) funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme from the European Union. and the project NORTE 01-0246-FEDER-000063, funded by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020),under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) JMH and FM were supported, respectively, by the contracts IF/00001/2015 and IF/01053/2015 funded by the FCT. JRP was supported by ‘la Caixa’ and ‘Caja Navarra’ Foundations, under agreement LCF/PR/PR13/51080004 in the framework of UPNA’s ‘Captación de Talento’ program. BS, GJ-N, SV and RM were supported, respectively, by the PhD studentships SFRH/BD/137803/2018, SFRH/BD/133017/2017, SFRH/BD/121388/2016 and SFRH/BD/99746/2014 funded by the FCT. | |
| dc.format.extent | 10 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-021-02768-0 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/42650 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Nature Research | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Scientific Reports (2021) 11:23662 | en |
| dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/862480/ | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02768-0 | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Biocontrol services | en |
| dc.subject | Biodiversity | en |
| dc.subject | Vertebrates | en |
| dc.subject | Insect pests | en |
| dc.subject | Olive groves | en |
| dc.subject | Vineyards | en |
| dc.title | A food web approach reveals the vulnerability of biocontrol services by birds and bats to landscape modification at regional scale | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
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