Cover cropping alters the diet of arthropods in a banana plantation: a metabarcoding approach.

Plant diversification using cover crops may promote natural regulation of agricultural pests by supporting alternative prey that enable the increase of arthropod predator densities. However, the changes in the specific composition of predator diet induced by cover cropping are poorly understood. Her...

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Main Authors: Gregory Mollot, Pierre-François Duyck, Pierre Lefeuvre, Françoise Lescourret, Jean-François Martin, Sylvain Piry, Elsa Canard, Philippe Tixier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3973587?pdf=render