A partnership to address key economic and ecological concerns in BC Berries: Pest management, pollination services, and alternative cropping systems

该提案为BC浆果产业在景观改造、生物监测和精确管理方面提供了新的经济机会。具体而言，我们建议使用协作网络的方法，在害虫管理，授粉生物学，生态系统服务和景观生态学的研究专业知识，再加上在土地保护和经济作物生产的管理专业知识，以确定生态和经济的可持续性实施栖息地的农场修正案。这将包括对与项目小组成员目前的研究伙伴关系有关的参与农场的现有实验性生境修正进行长期评估。重要的是，这些长期评估将为种植者和浆果行业提供关键信息，支持景观改造以实现生产目标，因为单季测量无法解决年际变化，包括极端天气事件。此外，通过与下弗雷泽山谷的多个浆果生产者团体合作，并与三角洲农田和野生动物信托基金合作，我们将在生产通道内设计和试点新的覆盖作物混合物，提供多种生态系统服务（即，害虫管理、传粉者生境、养分和杂草管理），并有可能支持碳固存和温室气体排放目标。最后，在与加拿大农业和农业食品和BC蓝莓和树莓理事会和草莓协会合作，我们建议部署一个数字检测网络，使用定制设计和开源昆虫相机陷阱与配对标本测序。这些工具将用于检测和监测紧急和入侵性害虫，并支持种植者的短期和长期需求，以了解和预测与季节和气候相关的害虫丰度变化，并评估和快速调整管理措施。

This proposal addresses new economic opportunities for the BC Berry industry in landscape transformation, bio-surveillance, and precision management. Specifically, we propose to use a collaborative network approach, with research expertise in pest management, pollination biology, ecosystem services, and landscape ecology, coupled with management expertise in land conservation and commercial crop production, to determine the ecological and economic sustainability of implementing habitat amendments on farm. This will include longer-term evaluation of existing experimental habitat amendments on participating farms involved in current research partnerships with project team members. Importantly, these longer-term evaluations will provide critical information for growers and the berry industry in supporting landscape transformation to achieve production goals, as single season measurements fail to address interannual variation, including extreme weather events. Additionally, through partnership with multiple berry producer groups in the Lower Fraser Valley and in collaboration with Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust, we will design and pilot new cover crop blends within production alleyways that provide multiple ecosystem services (i.e., pest management, pollinator habitat, nutrient and weed management) and with the potential to support carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission targets. Finally, in collaboration with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the BC Blueberry and Raspberry Councils and Strawberry Association, we propose to deploy a digital detection web using custom designed and open-source insect camera traps with paired specimen sequencing. These tools will be used to detect and monitor emergent and invasive insect pest and support the short- and long-term needs of growers to understand and predict seasonal and climate related changes in pest abundances, and evaluate and quickly adapt management practices.