Landscape Ecology of Insects
[singlepic id=33 w=320 h=240 float=right]When are multiple species better than one? This question has intrigued ecologists for over a century, and has relevance both for conservation and agriculture. Recently, Ben Werling, Claudio Gratton and their coauthors published work examining the benefits of diversifying potato agroecosystems, both at the top and bottom of the food chain. …
Last week I had the opportunity to visit and give a seminar in the Entomology department at the University of Arkansas in Feyetteville in the northwestern part of the state. UA being the home institution of Dwight Isley, one of the fathers of modern Integrated Pest Management (historical placard in front of the department!) I had …
Congrats to Ben Werling, former Gratton Lab member extraordinaire! Ben has achieved the lofty goal of publishing all of his thesis research AND… an extra paper that was not even part of his dissertation! Nice work Ben! The latest two are just out: visit the publications page to get the articles. Werling, B., …
Believe it or not, for all the years that this show has been going on, we are having our first Gratton Lab retreat up at the Trout Lake research station. Hopefully this will become an annual event. The group is almost complete, missing only a few of the regulars (Tim and Jamin, we’ll catch you …
At which scale should conservation of non-crop habitat take place to sustain such important ecosystem services as the control of crop pests? To help understanding the consequences of land-use decisions, Ben Werling and Claudio Gratton examined the impact of local and broad scale landscape structure on the predation of two insect pests of potatoes in …