Claim · #6495993
Secale cereale · provides refuge · predatory and parasitoid insects
provides refuge · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“their presence protects beneficials”
- Source
- Managing Cover Crops Profitably (Third Edition)
- Authors
- Clark A. (editor)
- Year
- 2007
- Publication
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Handbook Series Book 9
- Page
- 27
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Rye residue maintaining beneficial populations into cash crop is consistent with conservation-biocontrol literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cereal rye residue provides ground-dwelling predator habitat (carabids, spiders); refuge mechanism is biologically supported.”
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