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Semiochemical experiment data, 2005-2009 - RELU Re-bugging the system: promoting adoption of alternative pest management strategies in field crop systems
The semiochemical experiment data were collected from novel laboratory, semi-field- and field-scale bioassay experiments taking behavioural observations and counts of pest insects and their natural enemies in the field. Crop yields were taken. Chemical analyses were also done using air entrainment. The study is part of the NERC Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme. Despite the widespread concerns regarding the use of pesticides in food production and the availability of potentially viable biological pest control strategies in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems, the UK cereal crop production remains a bastion of pesticide use. This project aimed to understand further the reasons for this lack of adoption, using the control of summer cereal aphids as a case study. Reasons for this lack of adoption of biocontrol remain a complex interplay of both technical and economic problems. Economists highlight the potential path dependency of an industry to continue to employ a suboptimal technology, caused by past dynamics of adoption resulting in differential private cost structures of each technique. Further, risk aversion on the part of farmers regarding the perceived efficacy of a new technology may also limit up-take. This may be particularly important when IPM rests on portfolios of technologies and when little scientific understanding exists on the effect of portfolio and scale of adoption on overall efficacy. Faced with this, farmers will not adopt a socially superior IPM technology and there exists a clear need for public policy action. This action may take the form of minimising uncertainty through carefully designed research programs, government funding and dissemination of the results of large-scale research studies or direct public support for farm landscape and farm system changes that can promote biocontrol. This research looked at alternatives to the use of insecticides in arable agriculture and the difficulties facing producers in switching over to them. Two approaches were explored: habitat manipulations, to encourage predators and parasites, and using naturally occurring odours to manipulate predator distribution as model technologies. Scale and portfolio effects on biocontrol efficacy have been investigated in controlled and field scale experiments. Aim is to improve the way research and development of new products and techniques are carried out to help break the dependence on chemical pesticides. Conservation biological control experiments data investigating the effect of wild field margins on pests and predators, from this same research project, are also available. In addition, socio-economic research has been used to help direct natural science research into the development and evaluation of a combination of habitat management and semiochemical push-pull strategies of appropriate scale and complementarity to yield viable, commercially attractive and sustainable alternatives to the use of insecticides in cereal crop agriculture. These socio-economic data are available through the UK Data Archive under study number 6960 (see Supplemental). Further information and documentation for this study may be found through the RELU Knowledge Portal and the project's ESRC funding award web page (see Supplemental).
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- Date (Publication)
- 2013-07-26
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1374854891838
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0ba3a95d-f384-44cd-bc49-481618557ebd
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Rothamsted Research Pickett, J.
Point of contact University of Kent Bailey, A.
Principal investigator University of Kent Bailey, A.
Owner Centre for Sustainable Pest and Disease Management, Biological Chemistry Department, Rothamsted Research
John A. Pickett
Author Centre for Sustainable Pest and Disease Management, Biological Chemistry Department, Rothamsted Research
Pickett, J.A.
Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Human Health and Safety
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Land Use
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Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
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Re-Bugging the System: Promoting Adoption of Alternative Pest Management Strategies in Field Crop Systems
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age
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agricultural land
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agronomy
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cereals
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cropping systems
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crops
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environmental conservation
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environmental degradation
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environmental issues
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environmental management
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farmers
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farms
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gender
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grain crops
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insecticides
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land tenure
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organic farming
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pest control
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pesticides
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pests
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weeds
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- unknown
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- Text, table
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- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Environment
- Farming
- Begin date
- 2005-01-01
- End date
- 2009-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0ba3a95d-f384-44cd-bc49-481618557ebd Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0ba3a95d-f384-44cd-bc49-481618557ebd.zip Supporting information
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Using the natural plant activator cis-jasmone as a model, studies aimed to: - develop effective formulations for field use - determine the response of natural enemies to treated plants - identify suitable crop varieties - investigate effects on pest populations in the field at increasing scales The data were collected from novel laboratory, semi-field- and field-scale bioassay experiments taking behavioural observations and counts of pest insects and their natural enemies in the field. Crop yields were taken. Chemical analyses were also done using air entrainment. Full details of the experiments and the data collection methodologies used can be found in the user guide, which is included in the data download package. Research funded by Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Award Number: RES-224-25-0093
Metadata
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- 0ba3a95d-f384-44cd-bc49-481618557ebd XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-09T12:21:34
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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