Claim · #6495216
Coccinellidae (family) · pest pressure · intensive cropland (anthropogenic habitat)
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“predators show steeper declines under intensive land use”
- Authors
- Outhwaite C.L., McCann P., Newbold T.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Nature
- Page
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Predator guild disproportionate decline under intensification is documented (trophic-level vulnerability hypothesis). Inferred tier appropriate.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Higher trophic-level arthropods (predators, parasitoids) show steeper declines under intensification (Tscharntke, Bianchi). Mechanism sound.”
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