Wendee:
Here is another one that I wrote in 1984 in Natural History Magazine,
which I cannot get online even in University of California libraries.
Banana s best friend. 1984. Strong, D.R.Natural History, no. 12, p. 51-57.
The Natural History article was full of color photos of the herbivores
of banana herbivores and their parasitoids, which were killed by Sevin,
causing huge outbreaks of several species of caterpillars. That
pesticide had its test run at the United Fruit plantations in Golfito,
Costa Rica. The scientific hero of this work was Clyde Stevens, who
convinced corporate head quarters to ban pesticides. He wrote the paper
that Lee gives below,
Stephens, C.S. Ecological upset and recuperation of natural control of insect
pests in some Costa Rican banana plantations. Turrialba 1984, 34, 101–105
Unfortunately, the journal /Turrialba/ appears to lack digital copies,
at least in the UC libraries.
Regards, Don
On 6/24/13 10:41 AM, Lee Dyer wrote:
Hi Wendee,There are quite a few citations you could use that quantify the
relationship between management intensity and different measures of
biodiversity in banana. Hopefully you consider invertebrates to be wildlife
because the references below mostly focus on invertebrates. All of them include
literature cited relevant to effects of management intensity on other taxa,
including vertebrates. Most of the publications that I list below also focus on
the subtle differences in management that exist in Costa Rica banana - for
example, utilizing different levels of carbamate nematicides, or applying
different mixes of fungicides, herbicides, fruit bags, or insecticides. These
subtle changes in management (similar to the types of changes advocated by the
management at EARTH) caused impressive changes in arthropod diversity as well
as very interesting subtle changes in chemically mediated interactions between
trophic levels (e.g., nematicides may poison the immune response of
caterpillars).
Stephens, C.S. Ecological upset and recuperation of natural control of insect
pests in some Costa Rican banana plantations. Turrialba 1984, 34,
101–105.Thrupp, L.A. Entrapment and escape from fruitless insecticide use:
Lessons from the banana sector of Costa Rica. Int. J. Environ. Stud. 1990, 36,
173–189.Smilanich, A.M. and L.A. Dyer. 2012. Effects
of banana plantation pesticides on the immune response of lepidopteran larvae
and their parasitoid natural enemies. Insects
3:616-628.Matlock, R.B.; de la Cruz, R. An inventory of parasitic Hymenoptera
in banana plantations under two pesticide regimes. Agr. Ecosyst. Environ. 2002,
93, 147–164.Dyer, L.A.; Matlock, R.B.; Chehrezad, D.; O’Malley, R. Predicting
caterpillar parasitism in banana plantations. Environ. Entomol. 2005, 34,
403–409.Stireman, J.O., III; Dyer, L.; Matlock, R. Top-Down Forces in Managed
Versus Unmanaged Habitats. In Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions; Barbosa,
P., Castellanos, I., Eds.; OxfordUniversity Press: Oxford, UK, 2005; pp.
303–323.
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:25:12 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] banana monocultures & wildlife - ref needed!
To: [email protected]
I have an article coming out July 1 on the quite impressive EARTH University
in Costa Rica, and how they've transform the banana industry in that area
(their bananas are sold at Whole Foods they're not organic, but they are
grown in between shade trees, and they've cut way down on the use of
chemicals, etc). Here's where i need your helpŠ
Anyway, so this pub (Environmental Health Perspectives ehponline.org)
requires citations, and I am desperately looking for a study to reference
that backs up a statement I made that traditional banana plantations are
inhospitable to wildlife (or, at least, have much less wildlife than say a
shade-grown plantation). I looked online, ad in Google scholar, and just
can't seem to find anything but it seems obvious there MUST be such a study!
Any suggestions?
Wendee
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