Identifying and quantifying crop stressors interactions in agroecosystems is necessary to guide sustainable crop management strategies. Over the last 50 years, faba bean cropping area has been declining, partly due to yield instabilities associated to uneven insect pollination and herbivory. Yet, the effect of interactions between pollinators and a key pest, the broad bean beetle Bruchus rufimanus (florivorous and seed predating herbivore) on faba bean yield has not been investigated.

Using a factorial cage experiment (2 x 2 m) in the field we investigated how interactions between insect pollination by bumblebees and herbivory by the broad bean beetle, affect faba bean yield.
The data on pest damage , pollinators visitation and behavior and faba bean yield components and biomass used in the paper:
Riggi, L., Raderschall, C., & Lundin, O. (2022). Insect pest damage increases faba bean (Vicia faba) yield components but only in the absence of insect pollination. In Ecology and Evolution (Vol. 12). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8686
is presented.

The data material on pest, pest damage, pollinat

Data contains personal data

Language

English

Method and outcome

Time period(s) investigated

2020-05 – 2020-09

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Text

Data collection

Mode of collection: Experiment
Description of the mode of collection: Cage experiment with observations and counts, harvest of plant material
Time period(s) for data collection: 2020-05 – 2020-09
Data collector: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Source of the data: Biological samples
Temporal resolution: 7 day

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Geographic description: Field scale experiment in a faba bean crop in Uppsala

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Department of Ecology

Funding

Funding agency: FORMAS
Funding agency's reference number: 2016-00626

Topic and keywords

Research area

Ecology (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Agricultural science (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Keywords

Ecosystem services

Publications

Riggi, L., Raderschall, C., & Lundin, O. (2022). Insect pest damage increases faba bean (Vicia faba) yield components but only in the absence of insect pollination. Ecology and Evolution. 12(3), e8686. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8686
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8686

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