“…Notable shifts in the relative abundance of rice stemborer species over time suggest that their assemblages are ultimately structured through interspecific competition. Large scale changes in agriculture (e.g., crop diversity and distribution, crop rotations, pesticide and fertilizer inputs, irrigation regimes, land clearing) [48,[213][214][215][216][217][218][219][220] and rice cropping practices (e.g., extent of rice production, production intensity, crop duration, synchronization of cropping) affect resource availability, setting the carrying capacity of the environment for stemborers and influencing total stemborer abundance and consequent damage [22,27,30,31,33,40,191,221,222]. Some of these changes apparently favor some species more than others (see Section 3.5).…”