Diversidad y control biológico de insectos - CyberTesis UACh ...
Diversidad y control biológico de insectos - CyberTesis UACh ...
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Predators.<br />
Data set I. The principal response curves of the predator guild recor<strong>de</strong>d by pitfall trapping<br />
are shown in Figure 2. The first PRC was significant and explained the 52% of the variance<br />
explained by the treatment regime (Table 1). The second PRC explained an additional 25%<br />
of the variance, but it was not significant (p=0.10). The first PRC showed that small<br />
variations were present in the pre-treatment period and significant <strong>de</strong>viations from the<br />
<strong>control</strong> in insectici<strong>de</strong> plots occurred in the three post-application sampling dates.<br />
More <strong>de</strong>tailed information about the significance of treatment effects was gained by<br />
performing the MC permutation tests individually for each sampling date. The pre-<br />
treatment predator guild did not differ between treatment and <strong>control</strong> plots (Table 2). One<br />
day after the application of the spores or the insectici<strong>de</strong>, the predator guild activity<br />
<strong>de</strong>creased in the insectici<strong>de</strong> plots compared with the <strong>control</strong> plots (p=0.02), while the<br />
response curve for the B. bassiana plots fluctuated close to the zero line of the <strong>control</strong><br />
indicating that no significant (p=0.68) changes in guild activity <strong>de</strong>nsity occurred. The date<br />
by date contrasts indicated that this pattern was present from the day 1 throughout the day<br />
60, thus the predator guild did not recover into the sampling period (Figure 2). Overall<br />
predator guild in the insectici<strong>de</strong> plots was reduced by 49% after application of lambda-<br />
cyhalothrin, while the predator <strong>de</strong>nsity activity was reduced by 19% in the B. bassiana<br />
plots, compared with the <strong>control</strong>. However, only the lambda-cyhalothrin <strong>de</strong>crease was<br />
statistically significant (p