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Wildlife populations may be the subject of management interventions for disease control that can have unintended, counterproductive effects. Social st...

Zoonotic pathogens can harm human health and well-being directly or by impacting livestock. Pathogens that spillover from wildlife can also impair con...

Predicting where crop pests and diseases can occur, both now and in the future under different climate change scenarios, is a major challenge for crop...

Organic farming is a promising way to reduce pesticide use but increasing the area under organic farming at the landscape scale could increase pest in...

There is growing awareness that biological control carries risks as well as benefits, but there are few data on below-ground effects of inundative ins...

The global trade of species promotes diverse human activities but also facilitates the introduction of potentially invasive species into new environme...

Several devastating forest pathogens are suspected or known to have entered the UK through imported planting material. The nursery industry is a key b...

Acute outbreaks of pests and disease are increasingly affecting tree populations around the world, causing widespread ecological effects. In Britain, ...

Root and butt rot caused by pathogenic fungi in the genera Heterobasidion and Armillaria is a pressing issue in managed Norway spruce forests. The dis...

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), an aquatic pathogenic fungus, is responsible for the decline of hundreds of amphibian species worldwide and negat...