The consequence of tree pests and diseases for ecosystem services

IL Boyd, PH Freer-Smith, CA Gilligan, HCJ Godfray - Science, 2013 - science.org
Background Trees are major components of many terrestrial ecosystems and are grown in
managed plantations and orchards to provide a variety of economically important products …

[HTML][HTML] Durable resistance: a key to sustainable management of pathogens and pests

CC Mundt - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2014 - Elsevier
This review briefly addresses what has been learned about resistance durability in recent
years, as well as the questions that still remain. Molecular analyses of major gene …

Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling

JT Abatzoglou - International Journal of Climatology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape‐scale ecological modelling has been hindered by suitable high‐resolution
surface meteorological datasets. To overcome these limitations, desirable spatial attributes …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear shifts in infectious rust disease due to climate change

J Dudney, CE Willing, AJ Das, AM Latimer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Range shifts of infectious plant disease are expected under climate change. As plant
diseases move, emergent abiotic-biotic interactions are predicted to modify their …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal data mining: a survey on challenges and open problems

A Hamdi, K Shaban, A Erradi, A Mohamed… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2022 - Springer
Spatiotemporal data mining (STDM) discovers useful patterns from the dynamic interplay
between space and time. Several available surveys capture STDM advances and report a …

Equilibrium or not? Modelling potential distribution of invasive species in different stages of invasion

T Václavík, RK Meentemeyer - Diversity and Distributions, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The assumption of equilibrium between organisms and their environment is a standard
working postulate in species distribution models (SDMs). However, this assumption is …

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

NG McDowell, NC Coops, PSA Beck, JQ Chambers… - Trends in plant …, 2015 - cell.com
Terrestrial disturbances are accelerating globally, but their full impact is not quantified
because we lack an adequate monitoring system. Remote sensing offers a means to …

Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread

CX Cunningham, S Comte, H McCallum… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases are strong drivers of wildlife population dynamics, however, empirical
analyses from the early stages of pathogen emergence are rare. Tasmanian devil facial …

Asymptomatic spread of huanglongbing and implications for disease control

JA Lee, SE Halbert, WO Dawson… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Huanglongbing (HLB) is a bacterial infection of citrus trees transmitted by the Asian citrus
psyllid Diaphorina citri. Mitigation of HLB has focused on spraying of insecticides to reduce …

Landscape epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases in natural and human-altered ecosystems

RK Meentemeyer, SE Haas… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
A central challenge to studying emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is a landscape
dilemma: Our best empirical understanding of disease dynamics occurs at local scales …