The ability to forecast invasion of harmful and beneficial organisms is becoming increasingly
important in agricultural and horticultural production systems as well as in natural plant …

Using a contact-process model for the spread of crop disease over a regional scale, we
examine the importance of the time scale for control with respect to the cost of the epidemic …

Connectivity and rates of movement have profound effect on the persistence and extinction
of infectious diseases. The emerging disease spread rapidly, due to the movement of …

The fields of epidemiological disease modeling and economics have tended to work
independently of each other despite their common reliance on the language of mathematics …

One hundred years after the 1918 influenza outbreak, are we ready for the next pandemic?
This paper addresses the need to identify and develop collaborative, interdisciplinary and …

Rhizoctonia solani is a complex species that is composed of different anastomosis groups
(AG). Although these different AGs show differences in their host ranges, generally R. solani …

Biofumigation, as originally defined, is the use, in agriculture, of the toxicity of Brassica crop
residues to control soilborne plant pathogens. This toxicity is specifically attributed to the …

A spatially-explicit, stochastic model is developed for Bahia bark scaling, a threat to citrus
production in north-eastern Brazil, and is used to assess epidemiological principles …

In this study we develop a mathematical modelling framework for linking the within-host and
between-host dynamics of infections with free-living pathogens in the environment. The …

Wheat yields in thirteenth century Europe have been estimated at 385 kg ha− 1 (Pretty 1990;
Houghton 1996), more than half a millennium later, by 1939 they had been increased to little …