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  • Modern agricultural practices like land use intensification and landscape simplification threaten farm biodiversity.
  • Pest outbreaks pose significant challenges to food security, with control measures often incurring socioeconomic and environmental costs.
  • The influence of complex ecological interactions on pest populations in operational farms is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between species diversity, community evenness, and network topology with pest abundance in maize farms.
  • To understand how biological network characteristics influence pest populations within real-world agricultural systems.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted bioinventories on maize farms in the Northern Great Plains.
  • Analyzed abundance correlations across entire biological communities to construct ecological networks.
  • Utilized network analysis to assess species diversity, community evenness, linkage strength, and network centrality.

Main Results:

  • Higher species diversity, community evenness, and stronger, more central network linkages were significantly associated with reduced pest abundance.
  • Demonstrated a correlation between decreased biological complexity in agroecosystems and increased pest populations.
  • Network centrality emerged as a key factor in understanding community function and pest regulation.

Conclusions:

  • Diversification of agroecosystems is crucial for enhancing biodiversity and reducing pest pressure.
  • Findings support the ecological principle that greater biological complexity leads to more stable and resilient agricultural systems.
  • Comprehensive bioinventories and network analyses provide vital baselines for assessing ecosystem function and the impact of agriculture on biodiversity.