TY - JOUR AU - Ali, Nadine AU - Tavoillot, Johannes AU - Besnard, Guillaume AU - Khadari, Bouchaib AU - Dmowska, Ewa AU - Winiszewska, Grażyna AU - Fossati-Gaschignard, Odile AU - Ater, Mohammed AU - Aït Hamza, Mohamed AU - El Mousadik, Abdelhamid AU - El Oualkadi, Aïcha AU - Moukhli, Abdelmajid AU - Essalouh, Laila AU - El Bakkali, Ahmed AU - Chapuis, Elodie AU - Mateille, Thierry PY - 2017 DA - 2017/02/06 TI - How anthropogenic changes may affect soil-borne parasite diversity? Plant-parasitic nematode communities associated with olive trees in Morocco as a case study JO - BMC Ecology SP - 4 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are major crop pests. On olive (Olea europaea), they significantly contribute to economic losses in the top-ten olive producing countries in the world especially in nurseries and under cropping intensification. The diversity and the structure of PPN communities respond to environmental and anthropogenic forces. The olive tree is a good host plant model to understand the impact of such forces on PPN diversity since it grows according to different modalities (wild, feral and cultivated olives). A wide soil survey was conducted in several olive-growing regions in Morocco. The taxonomical and the functional diversity as well as the structures of PPN communities were described and then compared between non-cultivated (wild and feral forms) and cultivated (traditional and high-density olive cultivation) olives. SN - 1472-6785 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-016-0113-9 DO - 10.1186/s12898-016-0113-9 ID - Ali2017 ER -