Traits drive responses of aphidophagous coccinellid communities to landscape complexity

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dc.contributor.authorPerović, David J.
dc.contributor.authorGrez, Audrey A.
dc.contributor.authorZaviezo, Palacios Tania
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-30T19:14:22Z
dc.date.available2025-10-30T19:14:22Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractCoccinellids are important biocontrol agents which are threatened by agricultural intensification and landscape change. Their responses to the landscape are inconsistent which may be due to a taxonomic focus of studies that misses the traits that drive the differences in species responses to the landscape.In this study, we investigated how coccinellids in alfalfa respond to environmental variables in terms of their traits. We examined five traits: body size, activity period, habitat specialization, spatial ubiquity and dispersal habits, and analysed how single and multiple traits (syndromes) are affected by local variables (aphid density), and landscape compositional (diversity of land uses) and configurational heterogeneity (edge density), at two spatial scales (500 and 1500 m).The community-weighted mean of all traits, except body size, was affected by landscape heterogeneity, mostly at the smaller spatial scale. Coccinellid communities break into two groups of trait syndromes in their response to landscape heterogeneity. Smaller species, uncommon in alfalfa, mostly native, were negatively associated with compositional and configurational heterogeneity at both spatial scales, while the remaining species were associated with increased landscape heterogeneity. This latter group of species splits into two groups at the smaller spatial scale, composed by large exotic and natives, distributed along a gradient of landscape configurational heterogeneity.The response of ladybeetles to landscape composition and configuration depends more on their traits than on their origin (native vs. exotics). These responses should be considered when designing policies for agricultural landscape management, depending on the conservation aims.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/icad.70034
dc.identifier.eissn1752-4598
dc.identifier.issn1752-458X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/icad.70034
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/106445
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Agronomía e Ingenieria Forestal; Zaviezo, Palacios Tania; 0000-0002-4993-0386; 62543
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dc.nota.accesocontenido parcial
dc.revistaInsect Conservation and Diversity
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dc.subject.ddc570
dc.subject.deweyBiologíaes_ES
dc.subject.ods15 Life on land
dc.subject.ods11 Sustainable cities and communities
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa11 Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
dc.titleTraits drive responses of aphidophagous coccinellid communities to landscape complexity
dc.typeartículo
sipa.codpersvinculados62543
sipa.trazabilidadORCID;2025-10-27
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