Multigenerational migration of fall armyworm, a pest insect

J Westbrook, S Fleischer, S Jairam, R Meagher… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Multigenerational insect migration commonly expands poleward, but meteorological
influences are not clearly understood. We coupled biological and physical processes for the …

Towards predictions of interaction dynamics between cereal aphids and their natural enemies: A review

E Stell, H Meiss, F Lasserre-Joulin, O Therond - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Understanding how pests and their natural enemies interact dynamically
during the growing season and what drivers act on those interactions will help to develop …

How does the digital transformation of agriculture affect the implementation of Integrated Pest Management?

FH Iost Filho, JB Pazini, TM Alves, RL Koch… - … In Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Integrated pest management (IPM) has greatly influenced farming in the past decades. Even
though it has been effective, its adoption has not been as large as anticipated. Operational …

Natural enemies, mediated by landscape and weather conditions, shape response of the sorghum agroecosystem of North America to the invasive aphid Melanaphis …

MJ Brewer, NC Elliott, IL Esquivel… - Frontiers in Insect …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.]) agroecosystem of North America provided an
opportunity to evaluate agroecosystem response to an invading insect herbivore …

Spatial portability of random forest models to estimate site-specific air temperature for prediction of emergence dates of the Asian Corn Borer in North Korea

BH Yoo, KS Kim, JY Park, KH Moon, JJ Ahn… - … and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The air temperature estimates derived from satellite data products would facilitate site-
specific prediction of pest outbreaks. Here we propose an approach to estimate air …

Suppression of the Sugarcane Aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae), by Resident Natural Enemies on Susceptible and Resistant Sorghum Hybrids

AM Faris, NC Elliott, MJ Brewer - Environmental Entomology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner)(Hemiptera: Aphididae), is an
invasive sorghum pest that has threatened over 90% of North American sorghum …

Reflections of two systems ecologists on modelling coupled human and natural (socio-ecological, socio-environmental) systems

HH Wang, WE Grant - Ecological Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Systems ecology emerged as a discipline in the 1960's as ecologists identified the
“systems approach” as a useful method for addressing problems dealing with complex …

Integrating models of atmospheric dispersion and crop-pest dynamics: linking detection of local aphid infestations to forecasts of region-wide invasion of cereal crops

TE Koralewski, HH Wang, WE Grant… - Annals of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Invasive airborne insects pose major challenges in natural resource and agriculture
management, as they can rapidly spread over large distances and cross physical …

Parasitoids and Predators of the Invasive Aphid Melanaphis sorghi Found in Sorghum and Non-Crop Vegetation of the Sorghum Agroecosystem

AM Faris, MJ Brewer, NC Elliott - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The sorghum aphid is an invasive pest of grain sorghum in North America;
their infestations when in high numbers can reduce grain sorghum yield. Fortunately, there …

Coupling general physical environmental process models with specific question-driven ecological simulation models

TE Koralewski, JK Westbrook, WE Grant, HH Wang - Ecological modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
The mechanistic basis for problem-specific, question-driven ecological simulation models
often includes general physical phenomena. Although linking general physical …