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Vandermeer J, Armbrecht I, de la Mora A, Ennis KK, Fitch G, Gonthier DJ, Hajian-Forooshani Z, Hsieh HY, Iverson A, Jackson D, Jha S, Jiménez-Soto E, Lopez-Bautista G, Larsen A, Li K, Liere H, MacDonald A, Marin L, Mathis KA, Monagan I, Morris JR, Ong T, Pardee GL, Rivera-Salinas IS, Vaiyda C, Williams-Guillen K, Yitbarek S, Uno S, Zemenick A, Philpott SM, Perfecto I. The Community Ecology of Herbivore Regulation in an Agroecosystem: Lessons from Complex Systems. Bioscience 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
AbstractWhether an ecological community is controlled from above or below remains a popular framework that continues generating interesting research questions and takes on especially important meaning in agroecosystems. We describe the regulation from above of three coffee herbivores, a leaf herbivore (the green coffee scale, Coccus viridis), a seed predator (the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei), and a plant pathogen (the coffee rust disease, caused by Hemelia vastatrix) by various natural enemies, emphasizing the remarkable complexity involved. We emphasize the intersection of this classical question of ecology with the burgeoning field of complex systems, including references to chaos, critical transitions, hysteresis, basin or boundary collision, and spatial self-organization, all aimed at the applied question of pest control in the coffee agroecosystem.
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Affiliation(s)
- John Vandermeer
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside
| | - Katherine K Ennis
- Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
| | - Gordon Fitch
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, South Gull Lake
| | - Aaron Iverson
- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
| | | | - Shalene Jha
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin
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- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Seattle, Seattle, Washington
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
| | - Linda Marin
- Independent consultant, Chiapas and Pueblo, Mexico
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, in New York, New York
| | - Jonathan R Morris
- School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
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- Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
| | - Ivette Perfecto
- School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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