I know concrete example of area-wide coordinated pest management (Ayer 1997, Ravnborg et al. 2000) and some authors in landscape ecology (Bianchi et al. 2006) mention the potential of landscape elements for pest regulation, but I don't know cases of both processes at the same time. Any hint?
Classical biological control of cassava pests in Africa (Herren and Neuenschwander, 1991); Biological Control of the Cassava Mealybug, Phenacoccus manihoti, by the Exotic Parasitoid Epidinocarsis lopezi in Africa (Neuenchschwander et al., 1988); Biological control of cassava green mites in Africa: impact of the predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo (Onzo et al 2005).
Typhlodromalus aripo
There is a nice golden oldie about the Prickly Pear (Opuntia stricta) in Australia and their savior Cactoblastis cactorum , I think they erected a monument for it, lucky bug.
Try this paper - Jones, R. W., and C. J. Cilliers. "Integrated control of water hyacinth on the Nseleni/Mposa rivers and Lake Nsezi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." Biological and integrated control of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra (2001): 123-129.
@ Kim Canavan : Jones & Cilluers is quite close to my original question but is not about using landscape elements as biologocal control means. (wooded habitats, landscape patchiness and herbaceous habitats as Bianchi & al. states it)
However, it is still a very interesting case of successful Natural Ressource Managment via collective landscape managment.
there have been interesting landscape management for pest control long time experiments in Southern France published in French by the INRA, in the seventies and eighties, trying shrubs and hedges to increase biodiversity as well as field margin management (INRA AVIGNON). In Italy, vineyards have been protected against leaf hoppers by the planting of blackberry shrubs between vines as those also have (another) leafhopper species, controlled earlier by a parasitoid common to both species (Arzone was the main author). There is strip cropping in the cereal producing regions of the United States of America… We have taught all that in Portuguese in the nineties in the frame of a master degree on the management of biological resources. Perhaps you can use some of these key words and find more texts in English.
@ Carola : thanks for your answer. Would you have any hint for the studies in France you mention. Studies from 70's 80's are very hard to find on internet nowadays.
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