Data for: Remote sensing reveals the importance of adjacent seminatural habitat and irrigation method on aphid biocontrol in arid agroecosystems

Remote sensing and nuanced spatial analyses are increasingly used to understand the role of seminatural habitats in biocontrol, but knowing how to best leverage these tools is a persistent challenge. Furthermore, these tools are seldom applied to arid and semiarid agroecosystems, where irrigation often exaggerates the differences between crop fields and their interspaces. In arid systems, small weedy areas adjacent to watered fields are often one of the only sources of persistent vegetation; remote sensing and careful spatial analysis may be essential to capture the effect of this fine-scale variation on pest biocontrol.
Using irrigated alfalfa farms in the Great Basin Desert (Nevada, USA), we examined the role of land-cover in determining the degree of aphid pest pressure and biocontrol within alfalfa fields. We used a combination of field surveys, remote sensing, and spatial analysis to permit comparisons between different methods of assessing land-cover and the importance of spatial ..., , , # Data for: \"Remote sensing reveals the importance of adjacent seminatural habitat and irrigation method on aphid biocontrol in arid agroecosystems\"

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.np5hqc00r](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.np5hqc00r)

Raw data, code, and complete model selection tables for the article \"Remote sensing reveals the importance of adjacent seminatural habitat and irrigation method on aphid biocontrol in arid agroecosystems\" submitted to *Journal of Applied Ecology* in October 2023.

## Description of the data and file structure

Raw data from arthropod collections are located in the following CSV files:

* Spring_counts.csv (for data collected in the spring season): 22 columns, with rows representing an individual subplot.

| Column | Description ...