Integrating movement ecology to ecosystem service provision assessments

• Grant number: 19/13802-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: November 29, 2019
• End date: November 28, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Jean Paul Walter Metzger
• Grantee: Andrea Larissa Boesing
• Supervisor: Felix-Jan Joost Antoine Bianchi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/26093-6 - Avian cross-habitat spillover into Brazilian coffee farms and implications for pest control provisioning, BP.PD

Abstract

Reconciling biodiversity conservation with sustainable agricultural production is a major challenge. The cross-habitat spillover is a key process relating biodiversity in native patches to regulating ecosystem services (such as natural pest control) in-agricultural landscapes. Top-down pest suppression by naturally occurring natural enemies (often birds) is a promising alternative control method, but these often depend on forest patches for nesting and finding alternative food. While many studies have attempted to assess spillover, this is generally done in an indirect way, often by comparing species abundances inside and outside native habitats at different times of the year or even snapshots. However, species abundances can be influenced by many other population processes and therefore provide no reliable information on the movement process that underlies spillover. Currently there is a lack of understanding of the movement process of species in agricultural landscapes and how this contributes to the provision of regulating ecosystem services that are essential for sustainable crop production. Thus, using coffee plantations as study system and birds as agents of coffee borer beetle (CBB) pest control, my current work focusses on (i) the assessment of drivers of bird movement along forest-coffee interfaces, and (ii) the assessment of the relationship between avian spillover and CBB suppression in coffee farms along a forest cover gradient. Thus, the goal of this BEPE proposal is to obtain insights about which landscape configurations support cross habitat movement of birds and effective CBB suppression using different modelling procedures as tools. Specifically, this proposal aims: i) to develop a mathematical algorithm to get a better estimate of bird's space use in-coffee farms using data from automated receptors devices; 2) to develop a novel spillover measurement integrating both bird abundance and movement data; 3) to integrate the proposed spillover measurement in a kernel-function in order to interpolate the results for unsampled areas. We propose to develop this BEPE at Wageningen University and Research (WUR), one of the most recognized research institutions regarding farming systems and food production in the world.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MONTEALEGRE-TALERO, CAROLINA; BOESING, ANDREA LARISSA; METZGER, JEAN PAUL. Avian cross-habitat spillover as a bidirectional process modulated by matrix type, forest cover and fragment size. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT, v. 322, DEC 1 2021. (13/23457-6, 17/26093-6, 19/13802-4)

BOESING, ANDREA LARISSA; MARQUES, THIAGO SIMON; MARTINELLI, LUIZ ANTONIO; NICHOLS, ELIZABETH; SIQUEIRA, PAULO RICARDO; BEIER, CHRISTIAN; DE CAMARGO, PLINIO BARBOSA; METZGER, JEAN PAUL. Conservation implications of a limited avian cross-habitat spillover in pasture lands. Biological Conservation, v. 253, JAN 2021. (13/23457-6, 13/11032-0, 17/26093-6, 19/13802-4, 13/12777-0)

BOESING, ANDREA LARISSA; PRIST, PAULA RIBEIRO; BARRETO, JULIA; HOHLENWERGER, CAMILA; MARON, MARTINE; RHODES, JONATHAN R.; ROMANINI, EDUARDA; TAMBOSI, LEANDRO REVERBERI; VIDAL, MARIANA; METZGER, JEAN PAUL. Ecosystem services at risk: integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision. ONE EARTH, v. 3, n. 6, p. 704-713, DEC 18 2020. (17/50015-5, 17/26093-6, 17/11666-0, 18/23364-1, 19/13802-4, 15/24802-4)

BOESING, ANDREA LARISSA; BIANCHI, FELIX J. J. A.; ROJAS, ANDRES; POLESSO, MARIANA; KERCHES-ROGERI, PATRICIA; RIBEIRO, MILTON CESAR; METZGER, JEAN PAUL. Seasonality modulates habitat cover effects on avian cross-boundary responses and spillover. ECOGRAPHY, v. 2022, n. 12, p. 13-pg., 2022-11-03. (20/01779-5, 13/50421-2, 13/23457-6, 17/26093-6, 21/10195-0, 19/13802-4, 19/00923-8)