Does plant richness alter multitrophic soil food web and promote plant-parasitic nematode regulation in banana agroecosystems?

Poeydebat C., Tixier P., Chabrier C., De Lapeyre de Bellaire L., Vargas R., Daribo M.O., Carval D.
2017

Agroecosystem plant diversification at the field scale has been shown to enhance ecological pest regulation. We explored the effects of plant community composition and soil properties on the soil nematode community, with a particular interest in the regulation of banana plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN). We monitored banana phytometers (Cavendish Grande Naine cultivar) in 85 plots distributed along ...

Biologie du sol; Protection des végétaux : considérations générales; Systèmes et modes de culture