@inproceedings{orgprints7509,
           title = {The role of intercropping on insects diversity in dryland field crops in a Mediterranean site

},
          author = {Berta Caballero and Albert Romero and Nicolas Perez and Daniel Ventura and Lourdes Chamorro and Marta Goula and F.Xavier Sans},
            year = {2006},
             url = {http://orgprints.org/7509/},
        abstract = {This work aims to evaluate the effect of crop type and density on insects? community in the Mediterranean re-gion. In winter of 2004, four 35m x 10m blocks (replicates) were delimited and 24 equidistant 2m x 3m plots were marked. Seven crop types (barley, vetch, turnip, barley-vetch, barley-turnip, vetch-turnip and barley-vetch-turnip) at three densities were randomly established within each block. Fifteen crop shoots per plot were randomly collected in May to evaluate insect?s abundance and diversity. Our results suggest that inter-crop has a positive effect on abundance of most exam-ined groups of insects and diversity, specifically when vetch is incorporated in the mixture. Changes in abun-dance of aphids, trips and ants are also discussed connected with vetch presence. }
}