The effect of farmers’ decisions on pest control with Bt crops : a billion dollar game of strategy (2015)
Journal Article
Milne, A., Bell, J., Hutchinson, W., van den bosch, F., Mitchell, P., Crowder, D., …Whitmore, A. (2015). The effect of farmers’ decisions on pest control with Bt crops : a billion dollar game of strategy. PLoS Computational Biology, 11(12), e1004483. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004483

A farmer’s decision on whether to control a pest is usually based on the perceived threat of the pest locally and the guidance of commercial advisors. Therefore farmers in a region are often influenced by similar circumstances, and this can create a... Read More about The effect of farmers’ decisions on pest control with Bt crops : a billion dollar game of strategy.

Analysis of the mitochondrial maxicircle of Trypanosoma lewisi, a neglected human pathogen (2015)
Journal Article
Lin, R., Lai, D., Zheng, L., Wu, J., Lukeš, J., Hide, G., & Lun, Z. (2015). Analysis of the mitochondrial maxicircle of Trypanosoma lewisi, a neglected human pathogen. Parasites and Vectors, 8(1), 665. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1281-8

BACKGROUND The haemoflagellate Trypanosoma lewisi is a kinetoplastid parasite which, as it has been recently reported to cause human disease, deserves increased attention. Characteristic features of all kinetoplastid flagellates are a uniquely st... Read More about Analysis of the mitochondrial maxicircle of Trypanosoma lewisi, a neglected human pathogen.

The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon (2015)
Journal Article
Kamilar, J., Rocha, J., Pinto, M., Boubli, J., & Grelle, C. (2015). The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon. PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0145699. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145699

The factors responsible for the formation of Amazonian primate communities are not well understood. Here we investigated the influence of interspecific competition in the assembly of these communities, specifically whether they follow an assembly r... Read More about The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon.

Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation (2015)
Book Chapter
Meyer, C. F., Struebig, M., & Willig, M. (2016). Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation. In C. C. Voigt, & T. Kingston (Eds.), Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World (63-103). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_4

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation, logging, and conversion of forested habitat to other land uses... Read More about Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation.

Challenges and benefits in the design of coastal walking and cycling amenities : toward a more integrated coastal management approach (2015)
Journal Article
Farrel, M., Cooper, J., & Yates, K. (2015). Challenges and benefits in the design of coastal walking and cycling amenities : toward a more integrated coastal management approach. Coastal Management, 43(6), 628-650. https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2015.1086950

The planning and development of pedestrian and cycling amenities in coastal urban environments is a challenging process because a wide range of policies and considerations must be taken into account. Among these, the concepts of sustainability and mo... Read More about Challenges and benefits in the design of coastal walking and cycling amenities : toward a more integrated coastal management approach.

Connectivity and dispersal patterns of protected biogenic reefs : implications for the conservation of Modiolus modiolus (L.) in the Irish Sea (2015)
Journal Article
Gormley, K., Mackenzie, C., Robins, P., Coscia, I., Cassidy, A., James, J., …Porter, J. (2015). Connectivity and dispersal patterns of protected biogenic reefs : implications for the conservation of Modiolus modiolus (L.) in the Irish Sea. PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0143337. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143337

Biogenic reefs created by Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) (horse mussel reefs) are marine habitats which support high levels of species biodiversity and provide valuable ecosystem services. Currently, M. modiolus reefs are listed as a threatened a... Read More about Connectivity and dispersal patterns of protected biogenic reefs : implications for the conservation of Modiolus modiolus (L.) in the Irish Sea.

User participation in urban green commons : exploring the links between access, voluntarism, biodiversity and well being (2015)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., & James, P. (2016). User participation in urban green commons : exploring the links between access, voluntarism, biodiversity and well being. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 15, 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2015.11.009

Polycentric governance and stakeholder participation in natural resource management have potential benefits for both human and environmental well-being. Researchers and decision-makers have attempted to conceptualise the ecological, social and politi... Read More about User participation in urban green commons : exploring the links between access, voluntarism, biodiversity and well being.

Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery : the case of ash dieback in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Alonso-Chavez, V., Parnell, S., & Bosch, F. (2015). Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery : the case of ash dieback in the UK. Forests, 6(11), 4135-4145. https://doi.org/10.3390/f6114135

Ash dieback is a fungal disease (causal agent Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) infecting Common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) throughout temperate Europe. The disease was first discovered in the UK in 2012 in a nursery in Southern England, in plants which had bee... Read More about Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery : the case of ash dieback in the UK.

Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies (2015)
Journal Article
Mordecai, G. J., Wilfert, L., Martin, S. J., Jones, I. M., & Schroeder, D. C. (2016). Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies. ISME Journal, 10(5), 1264-1273. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.178

Treatment of emerging RNA viruses is hampered by the high mutation and replication rates that enable these viruses to operate as a quasispecies. Declining honey bee populations have been attributed to the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor and its... Read More about Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies.

Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies (2015)
Journal Article
Mordecai, G. J., Brettell, L., Martin, S. J., Dixon, D., Jones, I. M., & Schroeder, D. C. (2016). Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies. ISME Journal, 10(5), 1182-1191. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.186

Over the past 50 years, many millions of European honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies have died as the ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, has spread around the world. Subsequent studies have indicated that the mite’s association with a group of R... Read More about Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies.

The role of fire in landscape dynamics : an example of two sediment records from the Rodna Mountains, northern Romanian Carpathians (2015)
Journal Article
Carpathians. CATENA, 137(2), 432-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.10.021

Fire is an important disturbance agent worldwide and one of the major causes of geomorphological change. Dependent on its characteristics (size, duration, temperature), fire induces changes in soil stability, modifying infiltration and promoting soi... Read More about The role of fire in landscape dynamics : an example of two sediment records from the Rodna Mountains, northern Romanian Carpathians.

Investigation of risk factors for Echinococcus coproantigen positivity in dogs in the Alay valley, Kyrgyzstan (2015)
Journal Article
Mastin, A., van Kesteren, F., Torgerson, P., Zaidanov, I., Rogan, M., & Craig, P. (2015). Investigation of risk factors for Echinococcus coproantigen positivity in dogs in the Alay valley, Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Helminthology, 89, 655-663. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X15000590

Echinococcosis caused by the zoonotic cestodes Echinococcus granulosus (sensu lato) and Echinococcus multilocularis is highly endemic in the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan, and is increasingly being identified as public health problem especiall... Read More about Investigation of risk factors for Echinococcus coproantigen positivity in dogs in the Alay valley, Kyrgyzstan.

Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Estrada-Villegas, S., Meyer, C., McGill, B., & Kalko, E. (2015). Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 138(3), 1905. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933991

Determining the structure and composition of tropical communities is challenging because some species are rare or hard to detect. Within Neotropical bats, aerial insectivores have been systematically undersampled because they avoid mist nets, the tra... Read More about Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques.

Using errors by guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) to gain new insights into nestmate recognition signals (2015)
Journal Article
gain new insights into nestmate recognition signals. Chemical Senses, 40(9), 649-653. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjv053

Although the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is one of the world most studied insects, the chemical compounds used in nestmate recognition, remains an open question. By exploiting the error prone recognition system of the honeybee, coupled with genotypin... Read More about Using errors by guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) to gain new insights into nestmate recognition signals.

Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery (2015)
Journal Article
Parnell, S., Gottwald, T., Cunniffe, N., Alonso Chavez, V., & van den Bosch, F. (2015). Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1814), 20151478. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1478

Emerging plant pathogens are a significant problem for conservation and food security. Surveillance is often instigated in an attempt to detect an invading epidemic before it gets out of control. Yet in practice many epidemics are not discovered unti... Read More about Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen : a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery.

The importance of soil quality in the safe practice of urban agriculture in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa (2015)
Book Chapter
Chipungu, L., Magidimisha, H., Hardman, M., & Beesley, L. (2015). The importance of soil quality in the safe practice of urban agriculture in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa. In F. Brearley, & A. Thomas (Eds.), Land-Use Change Impacts on Soil Processes : Tropical and Savannah Ecosystems. CAB International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780642109.0072

Rodentolepis straminea in an urban population of Apodemus sylvaticus in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Apodemus sylvaticus in the UK. Journal of Helminthology, 90(4), 476-482. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X15000632

The presence of the cyclophyllidean cestode Rodentolepis straminea (Cestoda, Hymenolepididae), was confirmed by molecular DNA analysis from a wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) population inhabiting urban woodland in Salford, Greater Manchester (UK)... Read More about Rodentolepis straminea in an urban population of Apodemus sylvaticus in the UK.

Transmission of Echinococcus species in pastoral communities in southern Kyrgyzstan (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Rogan, M., van Kesteren, F., Mastin, A., Craig, P., Torgerson, P., Mytova, B., …Raoul, F. (2015, August). Transmission of Echinococcus species in pastoral communities in southern Kyrgyzstan. Presented at 80. 25th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP), Liverpool, UK

Echinococcus granulosus and human cystic echinococcosis (CE) are highly endemic in Central Asia and western China. Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is an emergent public health problem in Kyrgyzstan and in the Region. Community, veterinary and ecol... Read More about Transmission of Echinococcus species in pastoral communities in southern Kyrgyzstan.

Assessing growth scenarios for their landscape ecological security impact, using the SLEUTH urban growth model (2015)
Journal Article
Yin, H., Kong, F., Hu, Y., James, P., Xu, F., & Yu, L. (2016). Assessing growth scenarios for their landscape ecological security impact, using the SLEUTH urban growth model. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 142(2), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29UP.1943-5444.0000297

Rapid urban population growth and the associated expansion of urban areas in China (as elsewhere) present significant environmental challenges, and threaten urban and regional ecological security. Modeling land use changes is one way to aid the manag... Read More about Assessing growth scenarios for their landscape ecological security impact, using the SLEUTH urban growth model.

ApiAP2 factors as candidate regulators of stochastic commitment to merozoite production in Theileria annulata (2015)
Journal Article
Pieszko, M., Weir, W., Goodhead, I., Kinnaird, J., & Shiels, B. (2015). ApiAP2 factors as candidate regulators of stochastic commitment to merozoite production in Theileria annulata. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(8), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003933

The ability of vector-borne Apicomplexan parasites (Babesia, Plasmodium and Theileria) to change from one life-cycle stage to the next is critical for establishment of infection and transmission to new hosts. Stage differentiation steps of both Plasm... Read More about ApiAP2 factors as candidate regulators of stochastic commitment to merozoite production in Theileria annulata.