Abstract
Editorial - Impact assessment, ecology and management of animal pests affecting field crop establishment: An introduction to the special issue
Highlights
Introduction to the special issueImpact assessment, ecology and management of animal pests affecting field crop establishmentThis special issue focuses on vertebrate and invertebrate pests affecting the crop establishment phase
A successful management of animal pests affecting crop establishment requires a systems-level approach that combines a range of disciplines including Agronomy, Biology and Ecology
Understanding the biology, ecology and population dynamics of these animal pests and their impact on the establishment quality of a given crop is a first step toward the development of sustainable crop protection measures that can be embedded into an integrated pest management (IPM)
Summary
Crop establishment is an early phase that consists of three sub-phases: sowing to seed germination, seed germination to seedling emergence, and seedling emergence to initial competition among young plants (Aubertot et al, 2020; Figure 1). Crop establishment is affected by five major groups of drivers and their interactions namely seed and seedling characteristics, seedbed components (physical, chemical and biological), weather, cropping systems (Lamichhane et al, 2018), and animal pests coming from outside the seedbed (Lamichhane et al, 2020b) The latter have been increasingly reported to cause post-emergence damage of field crops (Dimitri et al., 2012; Firake et al, 2016; Lamichhane, 2021; McKee et al, 2020; Nasu and Matsuda, 1976). A successful management of animal pests affecting crop establishment requires a systems-level approach that combines a range of disciplines including Agronomy, Biology and Ecology
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