Search Results - "Douma, J.C."
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Pathway models for analysing and managing the introduction of alien plant pestsan overview and categorization
Published in Ecological modelling (10-11-2016)“…Invasive alien plant pests and diseases pose a threat to agriculture and biodiversity worldwide.Pathway models are an emerging tool for assessing…”
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Early-season crop colonization by parasitoids is associated with native vegetation, but is spatially and temporally erratic
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-09-2015)“…•The rate of crop colonization from remnant vegetation exceeds 125m in three days.•There is on average a clear effect of landscape variables on parasitism…”
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fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-09-2014)“…Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) are indispensable for our understanding of climate change impacts. The application of traits in DGVMs is increasingly…”
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Global patterns of plant root colonization intensity by mycorrhizal fungi explained by climate and soil chemistry
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-03-2015)“…Aim: Most vascular plants on Earth form mycorrhizae, a symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi. Despite the broad recognition of the importance of…”
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Low investment in sexual reproduction threatens plants adapted to phosphorus limitation
Published in Nature (London) (02-01-2014)“…Plant life-history traits, notably plant investments in growth versus reproduction, can explain the impact of nitrogen:phosphorus stoichiometry on plant…”
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Development of a pathway model to assess the exposure of European pine trees to pine wood nematode via the trade of wood
Published in Ecological applications (01-04-2017)“…Pine wood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is a threat for pine species (Pinus spp.) throughout the world. The nematode is native to North America,…”
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Bordetella pertussis: an underreported pathogen in pediatric respiratory infections, a prospective cohort study
Published in BMC infectious diseases (30-09-2014)“…The incidence of pertussis has been increasing worldwide. In the Netherlands, the seroprevalence has risen higher than the reported cases, suggesting that…”
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Quantifying the functional responses of vegetation to drought and oxygen stress in temperate ecosystems
Published in Functional ecology (01-12-2012)“…1. Our understanding of the generality of plant functional responses to water availability is limited; current field studies use either very rough…”
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A combination of functionally different plant traits provides a means to quantitatively predict a broad range of species assemblages in NW Europe
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-04-2012)“…Assembly theory predicts that filtering processes will select species by their attributes to build a community. Some filters increase functional similarity…”
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Commodity risk assessment of oak logs with bark from the US for the oak wilt pathogen Bretziella fagacearum under an integrated systems approach
Published in EFSA journal (01-12-2020)“…The European Commission submitted to the EFSA Panel on Plant Health a Dossier by USDA proposing a systems approach to mitigate the risk of entry of Bretziella…”
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The contribution of mosses to the carbon and water exchange of artic ecosystems: quantification and relationships with system properties
Published in Plant, cell and environment (2007)“…Water vapour and CO2 exchange were measured in moss-dominated vegetation using a gas analyser and a 0.3 × 0.3 m chamber at 17 sites near Abisko, Northern…”
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