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Hylander K, Nemomissa S, Fischer J, Zewdie B, Ayalew B, Tack AJM. Lessons from Ethiopian coffee landscapes for global conservation in a post-wild world. Commun Biol 2024; 7:714. [PMID: 38858451 PMCID: PMC11164958 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06381-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024] Open
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The reality for conservation of biodiversity across our planet is that all ecosystems are modified by humans in some way or another. Thus, biodiversity conservation needs to be implemented in multifunctional landscapes. In this paper we use a fascinating coffee-dominated landscape in southwest Ethiopia as our lens to derive general lessons for biodiversity conservation in a post-wild world. Considering a hierarchy of scales from genes to multi-species interactions and social-ecological system contexts, we focus on (i) threats to the genetic diversity of crop wild relatives, (ii) the mechanisms behind trade-offs between biodiversity and agricultural yields, (iii) underexplored species interactions suppressing pest and disease levels, (iv) how the interactions of climate change and land-use change sometimes provide opportunities for restoration, and finally, (v) how to work closely with stakeholders to identify scenarios for sustainable development. The story on how the ecology and evolution of coffee within its indigenous distribution shape biodiversity conservation from genes to social-ecological systems can inspire us to view other landscapes with fresh eyes. The ubiquitous presence of human-nature interactions demands proactive, creative solutions to foster biodiversity conservation not only in remote protected areas but across entire landscapes inhabited by people.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kristoffer Hylander
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Leuphana University, Faculty of Sustainability, Scharnhorststrasse 1, 21335, Lueneburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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Santos MPD, Neto BDMS, Cardoso ACP, Santos ID, Coelho BS, Leite SA, Fernandes DRR, Carvalho GA, Castellani MA. Natural parasitism of the coffee leaf miner: climate factors, insecticide, and landscape affecting parasitoid diversity and their ecosystem services in coffee agroecosystems. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2023; 113:814-828. [PMID: 37997933 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485323000482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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Climate factors, pesticides, and landscape in coffee agroecosystems directly affect the populations of the coffee leaf miner and its parasitoids. This study aimed to investigate the effects of climate factors, insecticide use, and landscape on natural parasitism, parasitoid diversity, and infestation of L. coffeella in coffee plantations in the Planalto region, Bahia, Brazil. Mined leaves were collected monthly in six coffee plantations with varying edge density, vegetation cover, landscape diversity in scales of 500 to 3000 m of radius, insecticide use, and climate factors. Closterocerus coffeellae, and Proacrias coffeae (Eulophidae) predominated in the pest's natural parasitism. Our record is the first for the occurrence of Stiropius reticulatus, Neochrysocharis sp. 1, Neochrysocharis sp. 2, and Zagrammosoma sp. in Bahia. Higher temperature and larger forest cover increased the coffee leaf miner infestation. Higher rainfall values, insecticide use, and landscape diversity decreased the pest infestations. Natural parasitism and species diversity are favoured by increase in temperature, forest cover, and edge density, while increase in rainfall, insecticide use, and landscape diversity lead them to decrease.The natural parasitism and diversity of parasitoid species of the coffee leaf miner have been enhancing in the areas with greater forest cover and edge density associated with low use of insecticides. The areas composed of different lands with annual croplands surrounding the coffee plantations showed less natural parasitism and parasitoid species diversity. The ecosystem services provided by C. coffeellae and P. coffeae in coffee crops areas require conservation and these species are potential bioproducts for applied biological control programmes.
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- Mateus P Dos Santos
- Department of Plant Science and Animal Husbandry, State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Science and Animal Husbandry, State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Science and Animal Husbandry, State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Science and Animal Husbandry, State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Science and Animal Husbandry, State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Science and Animal Husbandry, State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Coordination of Biodiversity - Sector of Entomology, National Research Institute, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Departament of Entomology - Laboratory of Ecotoxicology and IPM, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras MG, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Science and Animal Husbandry, State University of Southwestern Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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Burger H, Hylander K, Ayalew B, van Dam N, Mendesil E, Schedl A, Shimales T, Zewdie B, Tack A. Bottom-up and top-down drivers of herbivory on Arabica coffee along an environmental and management gradient. Basic Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2021.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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