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- Selecting the right biological control agent is crucial to ensure it targets weeds effectively while avoiding negative impacts on non-target species and ecosystems.
- Network ecology can provide insights into complex interactions among plant, herbivore, and biological control agents, enhancing understanding of their relationships in both native and invaded areas.
- This review outlines practical applications of network ecology, focusing on agent selection, risk assessment, structural comparisons, potential for modeling, and challenges in constructing these ecological networks.
Article Abstract
A key element in weed biological control is the selection of a biological control agent that minimizes the risks of non-target attack and indirect effects on the recipient community. Network ecology is a promising approach that could help decipher tritrophic interactions in both the native and the invaded ranges, to complement quarantine-based host-specificity tests and gain insights on potential interactions of biological control agents. This review highlights practical questions addressed by networks, including 1) biological control agent selection, based on specialization indices, 2) risk assessment of biological control agent release into a novel environment, via particular patterns of association such as apparent competition between agent(s) and native herbivore(s), 3) network comparisons through structural metrics, 4) potential of network modelling and 5) limits of network construction methods.
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