Lucile Muneret

TL;DR: Evidence that organic farming can enhance pest control is provided and a way to reduce the use of synthetic pesticide for the management of animal pests and pathogens without increasing their levels of infestation is suggested.

TL;DR: It is concluded that biological control has a great deal of potential in viticulture and that addressing these key factors would improve the efficiency levels of biological control strategies, and help growers and stakeholders to significantly reduce insecticide use in vineyards.

TL;DR: The study demonstrates the need to target multiple spatial scales and to consider farming practices, as well as the proportion of seminatural habitats, to design functional landscapes that optimize biological pest control services.

TL;DR: The results suggest that some farming practices that are frequent in organic farming can reduce parasitoid populations and thus limit biological control in vineyards, and negative density dependence relationship between parasitism rates and host abundance suggest a dilution effect of the biological control potential at the landscape scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of organic farming at multiple spatial scales and in different landscape contexts on pest communities and crop productivity are analyzed in 42 vineyards, where the authors quantified the infestation levels of two pathogens and five arthropod pests.