Diversidad de plantas e insectos asociados a cultivos ecológicos de solanum quitoense lam. y solanum betaceum cav, en invernaderos del iser, Pamplona-Norte de Santander.

Abstract

Biological interactions between organisms or individuals are vital to the environment, allowing a constant flow of energy and matter, since there are no organisms totally isolated from their environment. Said associations can occur between plants and other plant species or between plants and groups of organisms from other kingdoms such as fungi, bacteria, animals, among which interactions with insects stand out, generating advantages or disadvantages in crops depending on the context. in the occur. These interactions are motivated mainly from the need to obtain food resources or simply to survive in an environment. At the national and regional level, there is no record of studies carried out in controlled spaces such as greenhouses, in which there is a presence of Solanum quitoense Lam crops. and Solanum betaceum Cav., for this reason, it is necessary to characterize the plant and insect richness, and thus understand the patterns of coexistence, diversity and distribution of the species found in the ISER greenhouse. For this, a collection, identification and preservation of plant material and entomofauna present in the crops under study were carried out. Through correlation analysis and floristic and fauna comparisons (regression models, richness indices, Simpson diversity, Morisita and Jaccard similarity, as well as interpolation-extrapolation curves) it was obtained that these greenhouses present in the ISER, Pamplona exhibit a high level of richness of plants and insects and likewise, they present a positive association (obtained by Pearson's correlation) that maintains the ecological balance of these places. In addition, a preliminary characterization of both plants and insects was obtained that could be used for future research.