Research activity
I work on the pest of bananas and plantains. My main actual focus is the study of the arthropod communities and their relationships between the vegetal diversity in tropical agroecosystems. However, I try to work on the different biological agents of these agroecosytems and used modelling tools to integreate ecological processes observed in the field to improve my understanding of ecosystem functionning.
Research topics
- Agroecology
- Pest management
- Ant community in tropical agroecosystems
- Ecological modelling
- Food web ecology
Ant communities in tropical agroecosystems
When you are working on tropical agroecosystems, you are rapidly facing a particluar and very interesting group of arthropods, the ants.
Ants are preponderant in tropical agroecosystems and their influence on the functionning of arthropod communities cannot be ignored. By their ubiquity and abundance, ants represent an important group of potential agents of biological control.
I conduct field studies in Martinique, Costa Rica and Cameroun to assess such potential in a context of ecological diversification of agroecosystems.
Ants in Martinique
I started to interest in antsby working in banana fields in Martinique. Here is a list of ant species that are encountered in Martinique agroecosystems. With 46 identified species, this list is very likely incomplete and should be regularly updated. Please contact me if you have specimens of ants of Martinique.
Behavioural ecology and population dynamics of the banana weevil Cosmoplites sordidus
Population dynamics of the banana rind trhips Elixothrips brevisetis
Nematode communities in tropical agroecosystems
PhD student supervision
PhD Thesis of Charlotte Poeydebat: Régulations écologiques d’un complexe
de bio-agresseurs dans un gradient de complexité spatiale et de
biodiversité, cas des systèmes de culture bananiers (2014-2016)
(Co-directed with Philippe Tixier and Luc de Lapeyre de Bellaire)
PhD Thesis of Blanche Collard: Multiscale modelling of the effect of
spatial organisation of plant diversity on pest regulation
(2016-2018) (Co-directed with Claire Lavigne, Thomas Delattre & Philippe Tixier)
Publications
Articles
Dassou A., Tixier P., Dépigny S., Carval D.
2017. Vegetation structure of plantain-based agrosystems determines numerical dominance in community of ground-dwelling ants. PeerJ, 5: e3917. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3917
Poeydebat C., Tixier P., de Lapeyre de Bellaire L., Carval D.
2017. Dataset on the regulation of banana weevil abundance
and corm damage associated with plant richness and the ground-dwelling arthropods'
food web. Data in Brief, 15: 208-212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.09.003
Poeydebat C., Tixier P., de Lapeyre de Bellaire L., Carval D.
2017. Plant richness enhances banana weevil regulation in a tropical agroecosystem by affecting a multitrophic food web. Biological Control, 114: 125-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2017.08.009
Poeydebat C., Tixier P., Chabrier C., de Lapeyre de Bellaire L., Daribo M.O., Vargas R., Carval D.
2017. Does plant richness alter multitrophic soil food web and promote plant-parasitic nematode regulation in banana agroecosystems? Applied Soil Ecology, 117-118: 137-146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.04.017
Carval D., Cotté V., Resmond R., Perrin B., Tixier P. 2016.
Dominance in a ground-dwelling ant community of banana agroecosystem. Ecology and Evolution, 6: 8617-8631.
Poeydebat C., Carval
D., de Lapeyre de Bellaire L., Tixier P. 2016. Balancing competition for resources with
multiple pest regulation in diversified agroecosystems: a process-based
approach to reconcile diversification and productivity. Ecology and Evolution, 6: 8607-8616.
Carval D., Resmond R., Achard R., Tixier P.
2016. Cover cropping reduces the abundance of the banana weevil
Cosmopolites sordidus but does not reduce its damage to the banana plants. Biological control, 99 : 14-18.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.04.004
Carval D., Resmond R., Achard R., Tixier P. 2016.
Data on the abundance of the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus and
of the earwig Euborellia caraibea in bare soil and cover crop
plots. Data in Brief, 7: 1565-1569.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.056
Gbèblonoudo Dassou A., Carval D., Dépigny S., Fansi G.,
Tixier P. 2016. Dataset on the abundance of ants and Cosmopolites
sordidus damage in plantain fields with intercropped plants. Data in Brief, 9: 17-23.
Gbèblonoudo Dassou A., Dépigny S, Canard E., Vinatier F., Carval D.,
Tixier P. 2016. Contrasting effects of plant diversity across
arthropod trophic groups in plantain-based agroecosystems. Basic and Applied Ecology, 17: 11-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2015.09.003
Carval D., Perrin B., Duyck P.F., Tixier P.
2015. Local and neighboring patch conditions alter sex-specific movement in
banana weevils. Ecology and Evolution,
23: 5735-5753. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1818
Gbèblonoudo Dassou A., Carval D., Dépigny S., Fansi G.,
Tixier P. 2015. Ant abundance and Cosmopolites
sordidus damage in plantain fields as affected by intercropping. Biological Control, 81: 51-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2014.11.008
Carval D., Cotté V., Notaro M., Ryckewaert P., Tixier
P. 2015. Spatiotemporal population
dynamics of the banana rind thrips, Elixothrips
brevisetis (Bagnall) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of Applied Entomology,
139: 510-518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12190
Duyck P.F., Dortel
E., Vinatier F., Gaujoux E., Carval D., Tixier P. 2012. Effect of environment
and fallow period on Cosmopolites sordidus population dynamics at the
landscape scale. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 102 (5)
: 583-588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485312000089
Carval D. & Ferrière R. 2010. A unified model for the
coevolution of resistance, tolerance, and virulence. Evolution, 64: 2988-3009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01035.x
Lizé A., Carval D., Cortesero A.M., Fournet S.,
Poinsot. D. 2006. Kin discrimination
and altruism in the larvae of a solitary insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 273 :
2381-2386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3598
Chapitres d'ouvrage
Agroecological pest
control and landscape organization in the French West Indies. Tixier Philippe, Carval Dominique, Chabrier Christian, De
Lapeyre de Bellaire Luc, Dorel Marc, Guillermet Claire, Risède Jean-Michel. 2017. In : Living
territories to transform the world. Caron Patrick (ed.), Valette Elodie (ed.),
Wassenaar Tom (ed.), Coppens D'Eeckenbrugge Geo (ed.), Papazian Hermine (ed.). 2017. Versailles : Ed. Quae-AFD, 272 p. (Agricultures et
défis du monde) ISBN 978-2-7592-2731-0
Lutte
agro-écologique contre les bioagresseurs et organisation paysagère aux Antilles
françaises. Tixier Philippe, Carval Dominique, Chabrier Christian, De Lapeyre
de Bellaire Luc, Dorel Marc, Guillermet Claire, Risède Jean-Michel. 2017. In :
Des territoires vivants pour transformer le monde. Caron Patrick (ed.), Valette
Elodie (ed.), Wassenaar Tom (ed.), Coppens D'Eeckenbrugge Géo (ed.), Papazian
Vatché (ed.). Versailles : Ed. Quae, 99-102. (Agricultures et défis du monde)
ISBN 978-2-7592-2654-2
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