Recent publications

resevol: an R package for spatially explicit models of pesticide resistance given evolving pest genomes

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Comprehensive R Archive Network

resevol: Simulate Agricultural Production and Evolution of Pesticide Resistance

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Simulates individual-based models of agricultural pest management and the evolution of pesticide resistance. Management occurs on a spatially explicit landscape that is divided into an arbitrary number of farms that can grow one of up to 10 crops and apply one of up to 10 pesticides. Pest genomes are modelled in a way that allows for any number of pest traits with an arbitrary covariance structure that is constructed using an evolutionary algorithm in the mine_gmatrix() function. Simulations are then run using the run_farm_sim() function. This package thereby allows for highly mechanistic social-ecological models of the evolution of pesticide resistance under different types of crop rotation and pesticide application regimes.

Population genetics of invasive and native Nymphaea mexicana Zuccarini: Taking the first steps to initiate a biological control programme in South Africa

Objective and subjective components of resource value in lethal fights between male entomopathogenic nematodes

Risk assessment to interpret the physiological host range of Hydrellia egeriae, a biocontrol agent for Egeria densa