Overview about methods to evaluate functional agrobiodiversity in apple orchards in Latvia

Ozoliņa-Pole, Laura

Ralle, Baiba

Salmane, Ineta

Sigsgaard, Lene

Warlop, Francois

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Latvijas Universitātes 75. zinātniskā konference Bioloģijas sekcija, Zooloģijas un dzīvnieku ekoloģijas apakšsekcija, 2017. gada 3. februāris METHODS FOR EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONAL AGROBIODIVERSITY TECHNIQUES IN APPLE ORCHARDS OF LATVIA  L. Ozoliņa-Pole¹, B. Ralle¹, I. Salmane¹, F. Warlop², L. Sigsgaard3 ¹ Latvian Plant Protection Research centre, Struktoru str. 14a, LV 1039, Riga, Latvia E-mail: laura.ozolina.pole@laapc.lv  ² Groupe de Recherche ne Agriculture Biologique, Maison de la Bio, 255 Chemin de la Castelette, BP 11283, F 84 911, Avignon Cedex 9, France 3 University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark  One of the aims of the international CORE Organic Plus project EcoOrchard “Innovative design and management to boost functional biodiversity of organic orchards” is to collect the existing information about functional agrobiodiversity (FAB) in agricultural landscapes and its management techniques in Latvia, and exchange knowledge and practical experience between scientists, consultants and owners of apple orchards.  A term FAB is new in Latvia, but at the same time, some of FAB techniques are already used in apple orchards. Most of those techniques are natural elements in Latvian agricultural landscape. In the frames of this project we investigated perennial crops - apple orchards, insects in apple orchards, to select suitable methods for evaluation of FAB techniques.  We performed testing of five methods for evaluation of FAB techniques together with organic apple growers: visual observation of the rosy apple aphid colonies and predators in them, none destructive beating of tree brunch, Cydia sentinel traps (predation cards with eggs of codling moth), aphid sentinel traps (predation cards with aphids), corrugated cardboard band-traps. Farmers were encouraged to choose one or more methods they would like to test in their own apple orchards. Results of research will be discussed.  The authors acknowledge for the financial support to the project EcoOrchard provided by transnational funding bodies being partners of the FP7 ERA net project, CORE Organic Plus, and the joint funding from the European Commission.    

Funkcionālās agrobioloģiskās daudzveidības pasākumu novērtēšanas metodes ābeļu dārzos Latvijā

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Funkcionālās agrobioloģiskās daudzveidības pasākumu novērtēšanas metodes ābeļu dārzos Latvijā

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