Benamú Pino, Marco Antonio

Research interests

Arachnology, ecology, biodiversity, ecotoxicology, soil fauna

Working area

The lines of research carried out are based on studies of the Biodiversity of spiders as insect predators in Agroecosystems, incorporating ethological and developmental analyses in the different guilds that comprise them, considered as possible natural controllers of agricultural pests; and taking into account various groups of spiders as potential biological indicators of altered or disturbed environments in environmental impact studies. Also corresponds to studies of Ecotoxicology of Soil Arthropods, emphasizing determining the lethal or sublethal effects of various pesticides used in agroecosystems, analyzing the effects of these xenobiotics that can produce at the level of biological and behavioral processes in predatory arthropods (prey capture, copulation, fecundity, fertility, post-embryonic development, etc.) and how it could affect biological control.
The study of Soil Fauna as a line of research contributes to the evaluation of the environmental impact at the biotic, abiotic, and anthropic levels, which can affect the specific composition, abundance, and diversity; causing the destabilization of the functioning of the soil as a system, which leads to the decrease of its fertility, considering some of these organisms as bioindicators of soil quality, this type of studies are focused on the level of agricultural, livestock, forestry and watershed agroecosystems.
Study of the natural control of ticks, through biological control with predatory arthropods and botanical bioinputs.