ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Phylogenetic escape from pests reduces pesticides on some crop plants.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Combined phylogenetic and geographic data can predict plant-pest interactions with high accuracy.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- One landscape does not fit all: Diverse arthropod responses to land use.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Identifying the generalizable controls on insect associations of native and non-native trees.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Pest pressure relates to similarity of crops and native plants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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Abstract
Pesticides are a ubiquitous component of conventional crop production but come with considerable economic and ecological costs. We tested the hypothesis that variation in pesticide use among crop species is a function of crop economics and the phylogenetic relationship of a crop to native plants because unrelated crops accrue fewer herbivores and pathogens. Comparative analyses of a dataset of 93 Californian crops showed that more valuable crops and crops with close relatives in the native plant flora received greater pesticide use, explaining roughly half of the variance in pesticide use among crops against pathogens and herbivores. Phylogenetic escape from arthropod and pathogen pests results in lower pesticides, suggesting that the introduced status of some crops can be leveraged to reduce pesticides.
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