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Can agricultural practices that mitigate or improve crop resilience to climate change also manage crop pests? by Murrell, Ebony G

“…•Climate change effect-mitigating farming practices may also facilitate pest control.•Practices can be used to control pest abundance and natural enemy…”
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uafR: An R package that automates mass spectrometry data processing by Stratton, Chase A, Thompson, Yvonne, Zio, Konilo, Morrison, 3rd, William R, Murrell, Ebony G

“…Chemical information has become increasingly ubiquitous and has outstripped the pace of analysis and interpretation. We have developed an R package, uafR, that…”
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Fungal community shifts in soils with varied cover crop treatments and edaphic properties by Cloutier, Mara L., Murrell, Ebony, Barbercheck, Mary, Kaye, Jason, Finney, Denise, García-González, Irene, Bruns, Mary Ann

“…Cover cropping is proposed to enhance soil microbial diversity and activity, with cover crop type affecting microbial groups in different ways. We compared…”
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Cover crop mixture expression is influenced by nitrogen availability and growing degree days by Baraibar, Barbara, Murrell, Ebony G, Bradley, Brosi A, Barbercheck, Mary E, Mortensen, David A, Kaye, Jason P, White, Charles M

“…Cover crop mixtures can provide multiple ecosystem services but provisioning of these services is contingent upon the expression of component species in the…”
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Nutrition vs association: plant defenses are altered by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi association not by nutritional provisioning alone by Stratton, Chase A, Ray, Swayamjit, Bradley, Brosi A, Kaye, Jason P, Ali, Jared G, Murrell, Ebony G

“…While it is known that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can improve nutrient acquisition and herbivore resistance in crops, the mechanisms by which AMF…”
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Detritus Type Alters the Outcome of Interspecific Competition Between Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) by Murrell, Ebony G., Juliano, Steven A.

“…Many studies of interspecific competition between Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) larvae show that Ae. albopictus are…”
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Warming Alters Prey Density and Biological Control in Conventional and Organic Agricultural Systems by Murrell, Ebony G., Barton, Brandon T.

“…Studies have shown that organically farmed fields promote natural predator populations and often have lower pest populations than conventional fields, due to a…”
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Predation resistance does not trade off with competitive ability in early-colonizing mosquitoes by Murrell, Ebony G., Juliano, Steven A.

“…The tradeoff between colonization and competitive ability has been proposed as a mechanism for ecological succession, and this tradeoff has been demonstrated…”
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Attracted to the enemy: Aedes aegypti prefers oviposition sites with predator-killed conspecifics by Albeny-Simões, Daniel, Murrell, Ebony G, Elliot, Simon L, Andrade, Mateus R, Lima, Eraldo, Juliano, Steven A, Vilela, Evaldo F

“…Oviposition habitat choices of species with aquatic larvae are expected to be influenced by both offspring risk of mortality due to predation, and offspring…”
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Effect of two commercial herbicides on life history traits of a human disease vector, Aedes aegypti, in the laboratory setting by Morris, Alexandra, Murrell, Ebony G., Klein, Talan, Noden, Bruce H.

“…Some mosquito species utilize the small niches of water that are abundant in farmland habitats. These niches are susceptible to effects from agricultural…”
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Competitive abilities in experimental microcosms are accurately predicted by a demographic index for R by Murrell, Ebony G, Juliano, Steven A

“…Resource competition theory predicts that R*, the equilibrium resource amount yielding zero growth of a consumer population, should predict species'…”
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Assessing effective mechanical and chemical strategies for managing Eucosma giganteana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the perennial oilseed crop, Silphium integrifolium (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) by Murrell, Ebony G, Zio, Konilo R, Chérémond, Nervah E, Van Tassel, David L

“…Eucosma giganteana (Riley) is a native specialist pest of silflower, Silphium integrifolium Michx., which is currently being domesticated as a perennial…”
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Field Trapping and Flight Capacity of Eucosma giganteana (Riley) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Response to Behaviorally Active Congeneric Semiochemicals in Novel Silflower Agroecosystems by Ruiz, Kaitlyn P, Bruce, Alexander, Chérémond, Nervah E, Stratton, Chase A, Murrell, Ebony G, Gillette, Samantha, Morrison, 3rd, William R

“…is a novel perennial crop being developed for oilseed and biofuel in the midwestern US. One of the primary pests in this system is (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)…”
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Correction: Competitive Abilities in Experimental Microcosms Are Accurately Predicted by a Demographic Index for R by Murrell, Ebony G., Juliano, Steven A.

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Shared phytochemicals predict efficacy of essential oils against western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) in the greenhouse by Durr, Tiffany D., Stratton, Chase A., Dosoky, Noura S., Satyal, Prabodh, Murrell, Ebony G.

“…Western flower thrips ( Frankliniella occidentalis ; Thysanoptera: Thripidae), or WFT, are a global pest of commercial crops, particularly those grown in…”
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Contributions of temporal segregation, oviposition choice, and non-additive effects of competitors to invasion success of Aedes japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) in North America by Murrell, Ebony G., Noden, Bruce H., Juliano, Steven A.

“…The mosquito Aedes japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) has spread rapidly through North America since its introduction in the 1990s. The mechanisms underlying its…”
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Conventional and Organic Soil Fertility Management Practices Affect Corn Plant Nutrition and Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Larval Performance by Murrell, Ebony G, Cullen, Eileen M

“…Few studies compare how different soil fertilization practices affect plant mineral content and insect performance in organic systems. This study examined: 1)…”
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Phylogeography of Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito) in South Florida: mtDNA evidence for human-aided dispersal by Damal, Kavitha, Murrell, Ebony G, Juliano, Steven A, Conn, Jan E, Loew, Sabine S

“…The invasive dengue vector Aedes aegypti has persisted for > 200 years in South Florida in the United States. We tested the hypotheses that Florida's landscape…”
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Balancing Forage Production, Seed Yield, and Pest Management in the Perennial Sunflower Silphium integrifolium (Asteraceae) by Vilela, Alejandra E., González-Paleo, Luciana, Ravetta, Damián A., Murrell, Ebony G., Van Tassel, David L.

“…The perennial sunflower Silphium integrifolium Michx. (Asteraceae), also known as silflower, is a prospective dual-purpose forage plus grain crop…”
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Balancing multiple objectives in organic feed and forage cropping systems by Schipanski, Meagan E., Barbercheck, Mary E., Murrell, Ebony G., Harper, Jayson, Finney, Denise M., Kaye, Jason P., Mortensen, David A., Smith, Richard G.

“…•Multiple management tools are required to manage for multiple agronomic objectives.•Organic cropping systems differing in tillage, inputs, and rotations were…”
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