Multiscale approach to pest insect monitoring: random walks, pattern formation, synchronization, and networks

S Petrovskii, N Petrovskaya, D Bearup - Physics of life reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Pest insects pose a significant threat to food production worldwide resulting in annual losses
worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Pest control attempts to prevent pest outbreaks that …

Computational ecology as an emerging science

S Petrovskii, N Petrovskaya - Interface Focus, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has long been recognized that numerical modelling and computer simulations can be
used as a powerful research tool to understand, and sometimes to predict, the tendencies …

[图书][B] Ecological modelling applied to entomology

CP Ferreira, WAC Godoy - 2014 - Springer
In recent decades, entomologists have expanded their analytical tools to improve the
interface between population theory and ways to analyse and interpret results in research …

Evaluation of peak functions on ultra-coarse grids

N Petrovskaya, N Embleton - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Integration of sampled data arises in many practical applications, where the integrand
function is available from experimental measurements only. One extensive field of research …

On numerical uncertainty in evaluation of pest population size

NL Embleton, NB Petrovskaya - Ecological Complexity, 2013 - Elsevier
Obtaining reliable estimates of pest insect species abundance is an essential part of
ecological monitoring programs. It is often the case that data available for obtaining such …

Catching ghosts with a coarse net: use and abuse of spatial sampling data in detecting synchronization

N Petrovskaya, S Petrovskii - Journal of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Synchronization of population dynamics in different habitats is a frequently observed
phenomenon. A common mathematical tool to reveal synchronization is the (cross) …

Computational methods for accurate evaluation of pest insect population size

N Petrovskaya, N Embleton - Ecological modelling applied to entomology, 2014 - Springer
Ecological monitoring aims to provide estimates of pest insect abundance, where the
information obtained as a result of monitoring is then used for making decisions about …

A novel approach to evaluation of pest insect abundance in the presence of noise

N Embleton, N Petrovskaya - Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Evaluation of pest abundance is an important task of integrated pest management.
It has recently been shown that evaluation of pest population size from discrete sampling …

Bridging the gap between theory and data in ecological models

EA Codling, AJ Dumbrell - Ecological Complexity, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract In September 2011, the University of Essex, UK, hosted an interdisciplinary
conference, Mathematical and Theoretical Ecology 2011 (MATE 2011), with the theme of …

On the accuracy of estimating pest insect abundance from data with random error

N Embleton, N Petrovskaya - Ecological Complexity, 2015 - Elsevier
Numerical integration is a popular technique that can be successfully applied to evaluating
the pest insect abundance in an agricultural field. In this paper we apply numerical …