CliMiteApple: The good, the bad and the ugly: are beneficial mites threatened in apple orchards due to climate change and pesticides? - meteorology
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Abstract
Apple is the most dominant fruit species in Austria. A serious pest mite, the red spider mite Panonychus ulmi, was efficiently controlled by predatory mites as natural enemies in the past, but regained nowadays the status of a main pest in Styrian apple orchards. Our main hypotheses for this project are: (i) climate warming reduces mite diversity; (ii) synergistic effects between climate warming and agricultural intensification (e.g. pesticide applications) enhance the negative effects on mite diversity; and finally (iii) the natural enemies (i.e. predatory mites) suffer more from the two stressors compared to their prey (i.e. pest mites), which lead to insufficient biocontrol of pest mites.
- Climatechange
- Mites
- Apple
Project staff
Herbert Formayer
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Herbert Formayer
herbert.formayer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81415
Project Leader
01.07.2023 - 30.06.2026
Josef Eitzinger
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Josef Eitzinger
josef.eitzinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81422
Project Staff
01.07.2023 - 30.06.2026
Tatiana Klisho
Tatiana Klisho M.Sc.
tatiana.klisho@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81413
Project Staff
01.07.2023 - 30.06.2026
Sabina Thaler
Mag. Mag. Dr. Sabina Thaler
sabina.thaler@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81420
Project Staff
01.07.2023 - 30.06.2026
BOKU partners
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External partners
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biohelp - biologischer Pflanzenschutz, Nützlingsproduktions-, Handels- und Beratungs-GmbH
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partner