氮肥对水稻叶冠层捕食性天敌种群及其自然控制能力的影响

为了公正地评价氮肥对整个稻田生态系统的影响，在国际水稻研究所试验场分别设立0、100和200kg／hm^2三个氮肥水平，测定了水稻主要特性参数和叶冠层捕食性天敌的种群动态，同时以果蝇蛹作为替代猎物的方法在田间模拟评价了叶冠层捕食性天敌对害虫的自然控制能力。结果表明，虽然施用200kg／hm^2氮肥稻田的稻株高度、叶面积和稻草干重显著比施用100kg／hm^2氮肥稻田的高，但每丛分蘖数和稻谷产量则没有明显差异。在水稻叶冠层中，肖蛸、圆蛛、黑肩绿盲蝽、稻红瓢虫和捕食性螅等为稻飞虱主要捕食性天敌。肖蛸在水稻孕穗期的数量最高，圆蛛的种群随水稻的生长而下降，但黑肩绿盲蝽、稻红瓢虫和捕食性螅的数量却均随水稻的生长而增加。施用氮肥后稻田中肖蛸和稻红瓢虫的种群数量显著减少。在水稻孕穗期，叶冠层上蜘蛛网的数量和蜘蛛网总面积均随氮肥施用量的提高而显著减少。在水稻孕穗期和乳熟期，不施用氮肥稻田中的捕食性天敌对替代猎物果蝇蛹的捕食能力显著高于其它两个施用氮肥的稻田中的捕食能力。而在乳熟期施用100kg／hm^2氮肥稻田的捕食能力又显著比施用200kg／hm^2氮肥稻田的高。结果说明过量施用氮肥可削弱天敌对害虫的自然控制作用。     

非稻田生境与稻飞虱卵期主要寄生蜂的关系

研究表明，稻飞虱的重要寄生性天敌缨小蜂Ａｎａｇｒｕｓｆｌａｖｅｏｌｕｓ、Ａ．ｏｐｔａｂｉｌｉｓ和寡索赤眼蜂Ｏｌｉｇｏｓｉｔａｎａｉａｓ及Ｏ．ａｅｓｏｐｉ同时存在于稻田及其周围的非稻田生境中。寄主卵、寄主植物和栖息生境对卵寄生蜂的性比、体形大小和发育历期有着明显的影响。非稻田生境中禾本科杂草的种类和数量首先影响飞虱和叶蝉，从而影响卵寄生蜂的种群数量和质量。植物花对卵寄生蜂成虫的生存和寄生行为非常重要。     

Changing rice farmers' pest management practices through participation in a small-scale experiment

Asian rice farmers commonly spray insecticides in the early stages of the crop to control leaf-feeding insects. The most common leaf feeder during this period is the leaf folder. Research shows that these sprays are usually unnecessary as the damaged crops mostly recover. It appears that farmers spray to control leaf folder because of misperceptions. We explored the use of farmer participation to change these misperceptions by inviting farmers to test a simple rule-of-thumb or 'heuristic': 'Do not spray against leaf folders for the first 30 days after transplanting (or 40 days after sowing)'. About 77% of the 101 participating farmers reported that yields of rice in their test plots were not significantly different from yields in their control plots. Before participating in the evaluation exercise, about 70% of the farmers applied their first insecticide sprays during the first 30 days after transplanting. In the first year after participation, 20% applied insecticides in the first 30 days and this was further reduced to 11% in the second year. The mean number of insecticide sprays was reduced from 3.2 to 2.0. Farmers' attitudes towards leaf-feeding insects has also changed. Before participation, farmers believed these insects cause yield loss (87%), severe damage (77%) and had to be sprayed early in the season (62%). After participation, these were reduced to 9%, 28% and 10%, respectively. Through information from research distilled into a 'high science-low tech' decision rule, farmers can readily derive a test hypothesis from it, evaluate itusing a simple experiment, learn its results and change perceptions and practices.     

Doing what with whom? Stakeholder analysis in a large transdisciplinary research project in South-East Asia

The transdisciplinary research project LEGATO analysed the combined generation of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services in wet rice agriculture in South-East Asia and applied ecological engineering to future-proof it against global change and environmental pollution challenges. Due to its transdisciplinary character and the sheer size, a systematic stakeholder involvement was inevitable. Starting with stakeholder identification by snowballing from a limited number of contacts, we derived a multi-level stakeholder analysis and tried to involve those identified as relevant. Applying different means and aiming at different depth of involvement, the effort can be judged successful. The paper describes the methods used to identify and classify stakeholders, and key elements of the stakeholder management, guided by the BiodivERsA Stakeholder Activation Handbook. While on the local level, farmers and extension workers turned out to be influential and interested stakeholders in both countries, as well as local (PH) or provincial authorities (VN), differences were manifest on higher levels due to the divergent institutional setting. National-level agents were hard to get interested in both countries, and influential agents along the production chain, including middle men, were not really interested in collaboration.     

水稻病虫害治理中新的范例和研究机会

病虫害治理研究目前已经到了需要改革的十字路口。现行的研究已经被流行的概念框架和严格的学科分类（如昆虫学、植物病理学、线虫学等）所限制。本文着重论述病虫害治理研究中的范例转换（ｐａｒａｄｉｇｍ ｓｈｉｆｔ）以探索研究新机会的必需性,尤其是如何与其它学科结合的问题。这些学科包括决策科学、信息科学、植物科学、保护生物学、天敌防治和品种抗性。为了促进有关研究真正集中到解决作物病虫害治理的实际问题上,本文提     

Effects of herbicides on rice resistance and on multiplication and feeding of brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (StÅl) (Homoptera: Delphacidae)

Two-way effects of herbicide on rice resistance and multiplication and feeding of the rice brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) were studied. Four of 11 herbicides tested, butachlor, metolachlor, oxadiazon and bentazone, had significantly stimulating effects on multiplication and feeding of BPH. Multiplication times (N ₁/N ₀) of BPH on the rice treated with the four herbicides were 674, 367, 322 and 311, respectively, while that of N. lugens on the untreated plants was 159. The results of measurements of honeydew production by BPH indicated that the feeding rates of the brown planthoppers increased when the insects fed on the plants treated with bentazone, quinclorac, oxadiazon and quinclorac. Survival rates of N. lugens first to third-instars rose on the rice plants treated with butachlor, bentazone, but that of the fourth and fifth instars were not affected. Furthermore, all of those herbicides tested led to a decline of rice resistance, i.e. the injury scales of the treated plants were larger than that of the control under the same pest stress. Based on their effects on rice resistance and on BPH, the herbicides tested can be divided into two categories, one affecting rice resistance and BPH multiplication, the other affecting rice resistance only.     

黑肩绿盲蝽在寄主植物、飞虱和叶蝉卵上的生长和发育

 系统地测定了不同寄主卵和寄主植物对稻飞虱重要天敌黑肩绿盲蝽Cyrtorhinus lividipennis Reuter生长和发育的影响。结果表明，在实验室条件下黑肩绿盲蝽能在水稻以及禾本科杂草如稗草Echinochloa glabrescens、千金子Leptochloa chinensis、马唐Digitaria ciliaris和狗牙根Cynodon dactylon上生长和繁殖。大田连续采样证实该盲蝽在稻田周围杂草地只能作短暂停留。黑肩绿盲蝽的若虫龄数随寄主卵和寄主植物的变化而变化，表现为5龄、6龄和4龄。水稻和禾本科花穗与飞虱蜜露或蜂蜜的结合可为黑肩绿盲蝽的生长和发育提供重要的营养源。该研究将为黑肩绿盲蝽的自然保护利用提供重要的理论依据。