Search Results - "C A Gilligan"

The Consequence of Tree Pests and Diseases for Ecosystem Services by Boyd, I. L., Freer-Smith, P. H., Gilligan, C. A., Godfray, H. C. J.

“…Trees and forests provide a wide variety of ecosystem services in addition to timber, food, and other provisioning services. New approaches to pest and disease…”
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Wheat rust epidemics damage Ethiopian wheat production: A decade of field disease surveillance reveals national-scale trends in past outbreaks by Meyer, M, Bacha, N, Tesfaye, T, Alemayehu, Y, Abera, E, Hundie, B, Woldeab, G, Girma, B, Gemechu, A, Negash, T, Mideksa, T, Smith, J, Jaleta, M, Hodson, D, Gilligan, C A

“…Wheat rusts are the key biological constraint to wheat production in Ethiopia-one of Africa's largest wheat producing countries. The fungal diseases cause…”
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Rational design of a survey protocol for avocado sunblotch viroid in commercial orchards to demonstrate pest freedom by Bonnéry, D B, Pretorius, L-S, Jooste, A E C, Geering, A D W, Gilligan, C A

“…Avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBVd) is a subcellular pathogen of avocado that reduces yield from a tree, diminishes the appearance of the fruit by causing…”
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Quantifying airborne dispersal routes of pathogens over continents to safeguard global wheat supply by Meyer, M., Cox, J. A., Hitchings, M. D. T., Burgin, L., Hort, M. C., Hodson, D. P., Gilligan, C. A.

“…Infectious crop diseases spreading over large agricultural areas pose a threat to food security. Aggressive strains of the obligate pathogenic fungus Puccinia…”
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Time-Dependent Infectivity and Flexible Latent and Infectious Periods in Compartmental Models of Plant Disease by CUNNIFFE, N. J, STUTT, R. O. J. H, DEN BOSCH, F. Van, GILLIGAN, C. A

“…Compartmental models have become the dominant theoretical paradigm in mechanistic modeling of plant disease and offer well-known advantages in terms of…”
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Metapopulation dynamics of bubonic plague by Keeling, M. J, Gilligan, C. A

“…Bubonic plague is widely regarded as a disease of mainly historical importance; however, with increasing reports of incidence and the discovery of…”
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Prominent effect of soil network heterogeneity on microbial invasion by Pérez-Reche, F J, Taraskin, S N, Otten, W, Viana, M P, Costa, L da F, Gilligan, C A

“…Using a network representation for real soil samples and mathematical models for microbial spread, we show that the structural heterogeneity of the soil…”
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Optimal Strategies for the Eradication of Asiatic Citrus Canker in Heterogeneous Host Landscapes by Parnell, S, Gottwald, T.R, van den Bosch, F, Gilligan, C.A

“…The eradication of nonnative plant pathogens is a key challenge in plant disease epidemiology. Asiatic citrus canker is an economically significant disease of…”
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Bubonic plague: a metapopulation model of a zoonosis by Keeling, M. J, Gilligan, C. A

“…) is generally thought of as a historical disease; however, it is still responsible for around 1000–3000 deaths each year worldwide. This paper expands the…”
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Effect of Landscape Pattern on the Optimal Eradication Zone of an Invading Epidemic by Parnell, S, Gottwald, T.R, Gilligan, C.A, Cunniffe, N.J, Bosch, van den F

“…A number of high profile eradication attempts on plant pathogens have recently been attempted in response to the increasing number of introductions of…”
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Soil by Fitter, A. H., Gilligan, C. A., Hollingworth, K., Kleczkowski, A., Twyman, R. M., Pitchford, J. W., The Members of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme

“…1. Soils are one of the last great frontiers for biodiversity research and are home to an extraordinary range of microbial and animal groups. Biological…”
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Response of a Deterministic Epidemiological System to a Stochastically Varying Environment by Truscott, J. E., Gilligan, C. A.

“…Fluctuations in the natural environment introduce variability into the biological systems that exist within them. In this paper, we develop a model for the…”
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Percolation-Based Risk Index for Pathogen Invasion: Application to Soilborne Disease in Propagation Systems by POGGI, S, NERI, F. M, DEYTIEUX, V, BATES, A, OTTEN, W, GILLIGAN, C. A, BAILEY, D. J

“…Propagation systems for seedling growth play a major role in agriculture, and in notable cases (such as organic systems), are under constant threat from soil…”
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Epidemiological analysis of the effects of biofumigation for biological control of root rot in sugar beet by Motisi, N., Poggi, S., Filipe, J. A. N., Lucas, P., Doré, T., Montfort, F., Gilligan, C. A., Bailey, D. J.

“…The effects of biofumigation using a Brassica juncea (mustard) cover crop on the dynamics of rhizoctonia root rot of sugar beet were recorded in two field…”
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Spatial Sampling to Detect an Invasive Pathogen Outside of an Eradication Zone by Demon, I, Cunniffe, N.J, Marchant, B.P, Gilligan, C.A, Bosch, F. van den

“…Invasive pathogens are known to cause major damage to the environments they invade. Effective control of such invasive pathogens depends on early detection. In…”
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Applying optimal control theory to complex epidemiological models to inform real-world disease management by Bussell, E H, Dangerfield, C E, Gilligan, C A, Cunniffe, N J

“…Mathematical models provide a rational basis to inform how, where and when to control disease. Assuming an accurate spatially explicit simulation model can be…”
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High levels of auto-infection in plant pathogens favour short latent periods: a theoretical approach by van den Berg, F., Gaucel, S., Lannou, C., Gilligan, C. A., van den Bosch, F.

“…Auto-infection (infection arising from inoculum produced on the same host unit) is common in polycyclic plant pathogens, but often neglected in experimental…”
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Disease control and its selection for damaging plant virus strains in vegetatively propagated staple food crops; a theoretical assessment by van den Bosch, F, Jeger, M.J, Gilligan, C.A

“…propagation, diagnostics and breeding methods carry a risk of failure due to the selection for virus strains that build up a high within-plant virus titre. For…”
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Will an outbreak exceed available resources for control? Estimating the risk from invading pathogens using practical definitions of a severe epidemic by Thompson, R N, Gilligan, C A, Cunniffe, N J

“…Forecasting whether or not initial reports of disease will be followed by a severe epidemic is an important component of disease management. Standard epidemic…”
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new model for the pathozone of the take‐all pathogen, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici by Gosme, M, Lebreton, L, Sarniguet, A, Lucas, P, Gilligan, C.A, Bailey, D.J

“…The pathozone (volume of soil surrounding subterranean plant organs within which a propagule must occur if it is to have any chance of infecting the organ) is…”
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