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Nematode spatial distribution in the service of biological pest control
Sound nematode sampling techniques and related measures can gain biocontrol merits from determining their spatial (geographic and temporal)...
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Mechanistic microclimate models and plant pest risk modelling
Climatic conditions are key determining factors of whether plant pests flourish. Models of pest response to temperature are integral to pest risk...
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Agroforestry for enhanced arthropod pest management in Vineyards
Modern vineyards, characterized by monoculture and landscape simplicity, face a multitude of pest management issues, including heightened pest and...
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Climate-Smart Strategies for Integrated Pest Management
Climate change is affecting the distribution, biology, and potential for pest outbreaks across various crops and geographical regions. To ensure...
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How can population models contribute to contemporary pest management practices?
Population models provide a logical knowledge base before conducting laborious and expensive field experiments. Historically, two types of population...
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Analyzing Pest Risk in the Context of Climate Change
Pests pose a significant threat to global food security and agricultural productivity. Climate change has exacerbated the impact of pests by...
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Pest science in Pasteur’s Quadrant
More than 25 years ago, Donald Stokes argued that we must move beyond the false dichotomy of basic or applied research and suggested that when...
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A framework for evaluating the value of agricultural pest management decision support systems
Disease management decision support systems (DSS) are typically prediction algorithms that help farmers assess the risk of an epidemic, to guide...
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Pest and Disease Modeling for Operational Agromet Advisory Services
In India, although the productivity of major crops has increased substantially in recent years, a sizable loss occurs annually because of pest and...
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Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS), and Machine Learning in the Pest Status Monitoring
In the chapter titled “Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS), and Machine Learning in Pest Status Monitoring” from the book “Decision...
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The biology and management of the invasive pest spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula White (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae)
The spotted lanternfly (SLF), Lycorma delicatula White, is native to Asia where it is not a pest. However, it has caused serious damage and economic...
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Mixed effects of oak woodlands on biocontrol potential and pest pressure in olive orchards under management intensification
Public health and environmental concerns are increasing the pressure to reduce chemical pesticide usage, thereby requiring management alternatives to...
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The effect of missing data on evolutionary analysis of sequence capture bycatch, with application to an agricultural pest
Sequence capture is a genomic technique that selectively enriches target sequences before high throughput next-generation sequencing, to generate...
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Pest status, molecular evolution, and epigenetic factors derived from the genome assembly of Frankliniella fusca, a thysanopteran phytovirus vector
BackgroundThe tobacco thrips ( Frankliniella fusca Hinds; family Thripidae; order Thysanoptera) is an important pest that can transmit viruses such...
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Apple pest and pathogen reduction in landscapes with large patch size and small area of orchards: a national-scale analysis
ContextThe composition and configuration of habitats in agricultural landscapes may determine crop damage resulting from pests or pathogens either by...
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Paninvasion severity assessment of a U.S. grape pest to disrupt the global wine market
Economic impacts from plant pests are often felt at the regional scale, yet some impacts expand to the global scale through the alignment of a pest’s...
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Pest Control in Coffee: A Tri-trophic Comparison between a Mainland and an Island Agroecosystem
The practical requirement of pest control in agriculture is an evident application of principles of tri-trophic ecological interactions—plant (crop),...
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Map** the risk of quarantine pest Sternochetus mangiferae under different climate change scenarios through species distribution modelling
The maximum entropy (MaxEnt) algorithm was used to predict the potential geographic distribution of the mango stone weevil (MSW), Sternochetus...
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Insect and Pest Management for Sustaining Crop Production Under Changing Climatic Patterns of Drylands
Climate change is alarming, particularly for agriculturists as it severely impacts the development, distribution, and survival of insects and pests,...
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Effects of Physiological Status and Environmental Factors on the Lure Responses of Three Pest Fruit Fly Species (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Biotic and abiotic factors influence how insects respond to stimuli. This can make it challenging to interpret captures in traps used to monitor pest...
