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Modelling the effect of landscape heterogeneity on the efficacy of vaccination for wildlife infectious disease control.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Rees, E. E. & Pond, B. A. & Tinline, R. R. & Bélanger, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Zoonotic disease control presents significant costs and challenges in human and wildlife populations. Although spatial variability and temporal variab...

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Aedes aegypti control: the concomitant role of competition, space and transgenic technologies.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Yakob, L. & Alphey, L. & Bonsall, M. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Over 2 billion people are currently at risk of infection with dengue fever. Use of the sterile insect technique (SIT) in controlling the vector, Aedes...

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Influence of mechanical cutting and pathogen application on the performance and nutrient storage of Cirsium arvense.

Published online: 21 May 2003

Authors: Kluth, S. & Kruess, A. & Tscharntke, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In order to develop an effective biological control technique, the influence of mechanical and pathogen treatments on performance and nutrient storage...

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Deforestation changes the effectiveness of bed nets for malaria control.

Published online: 27 Jan 2025

Authors: Estifanos, T. K. & Fisher, B. & Ricketts, T. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Land use changes such as deforestation and the degradation of tropical forests can be key drivers of infectious disease, including malaria. However, p...

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Back and forth Wolbachia transfers reveal efficient strains to control spotted wing Drosophila populations.

Published online: 07 Nov 2018

Authors: Cattel, J. & Nikolouli, K. & Andrieux, T. & Martinez, J. & Jiggins, F. & Charlat, S. & Vavre, F. & Lejon, D. & Gibert, P. & Mouton, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Since its recent invasion of the European and American continents, the spotted wing Drosophila Drosophila suzukii has become a burden of the fruit ind...

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The persistence of a SIS disease in a metapopulation.

Published online: 18 Nov 1999

Authors: Foley, J. E. & Foley, P. & Pedersen, N. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Deterministic models predict that susceptible-infective-susceptible (SIS) disease, where there is no immunity to reinfection following recovery, will ...

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A model of the dynamics and control of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in feral pigs in Australia.

Published online: 17 May 1988

Authors: Pech, R. P. & Hone, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A model of the progress of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in a single population of feral pigs, is described. The population was divided into c...

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Mycorrhizal infection in Pennine grassland. 2. Effects of mycorrhizal infection on the growth of some upland grasses on gamma -irradiated soils.

Published online: 01 Jan 1979

Authors: Sparling, G. P. & Tinker, P. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of mycorrhizal infection on the growth of 5 upland grass spp. (Anthoxanthum odoratum, Cynosurus cristatus, Festuca rubra, Nardus stricta a...

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Environmentally dependent host-pathogen and vector-pathogen interactions in the Barley yellow dwarf virus pathosystem.

Published online: 23 Sep 2015

Authors: Davis, T. S. & Bosque-Pérez, N. A. & Foote, N. E. & Magney, T. & Eigenbrode, S. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding environmentally dependent variation in interspecific interactions is needed for evaluating how agroecosystems respond to abiotic stresso...

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Phylodynamic analysis of an emergent Mycobacterium bovis outbreak in an area with no previously known wildlife infections.

Published online: 20 Apr 2022

Authors: Rossi, G. & Crispell, J. & Brough, T. & Lycett, S. J. & White, P. C. L. & Allen, A. & Ellis, R. J. & Gordon, S. V. & Harwood, R. & Palkopoulou, E. & Presho, E. L. & Skuce, R. & Smith, G. C. & Kao, R. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding how emergent pathogens successfully establish themselves and persist in previously unaffected populations is a crucial problem in diseas...

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