The Community Ecology of Herbivore Regulation in an Agroecosystem: Lessons from Complex Systems

John Vandermeer; Inge Armbrecht; Aldo De La Mora; Katherine K. Ennis; Gordon Fitch; David J. Gonthier; Zachary Hajian-Forooshani; Hsun Yi Hsieh; Aaron Iverson; Douglas Jackson; Shalene Jha; Estelí Jiménez-Soto; Gustavo Lopez-Bautista; Ashley Larsen; Kevin Li; Heidi Liere; Andrew MacDonald; Linda Marin; Kaitlyn A. Mathis; Ivan Monagan; Jonathan R. Morris; Theresa Ong; Gabriella L. Pardee; Iris Saraeny Rivera-Salinas; Chatura Vaiyda; Kimberly Williams-Guillen; Senay Yitbarek; Shinsuke Uno; Ash Zemenick; Stacy M. Philpott; Ivette Perfecto

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The Community Ecology of Herbivore Regulation in an Agroecosystem: Lessons from Complex Systems

John Vandermeer, Inge Armbrecht, Aldo De La Mora, Katherine K. Ennis, Gordon Fitch, David J. Gonthier, Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, Hsun Yi Hsieh, Aaron Iverson, Douglas Jackson, Shalene Jha, Estelí Jiménez-Soto, Gustavo Lopez-Bautista, Ashley Larsen, Kevin Li, Heidi Liere, Andrew MacDonald, Linda Marin, Kaitlyn A. Mathis, Ivan MonaganJonathan R. Morris, Theresa Ong, Gabriella L. Pardee, Iris Saraeny Rivera-Salinas, Chatura Vaiyda, Kimberly Williams-Guillen, Senay Yitbarek, Shinsuke Uno, Ash Zemenick, Stacy M. Philpott, Ivette Perfecto

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Whether 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	974-996
Number of pages	23
Journal	BioScience
Volume	69
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz127
State	Published - Dec 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

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agroecosystems
complex systems
ecology

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General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Vandermeer, J., Armbrecht, I., De La Mora, A., Ennis, K. K., Fitch, G., Gonthier, D. J., Hajian-Forooshani, Z., Hsieh, H. Y., Iverson, A., Jackson, D., Jha, S., Jiménez-Soto, E., Lopez-Bautista, G., Larsen, A., Li, K., Liere, H., MacDonald, A., Marin, L., Mathis, K. A., ... Perfecto, I. (2019). The Community Ecology of Herbivore Regulation in an Agroecosystem: Lessons from Complex Systems. BioScience, 69(12), 974-996. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz127

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 2019, 'The Community Ecology of Herbivore Regulation in an Agroecosystem: Lessons from Complex Systems', BioScience, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 974-996. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz127

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