Hastings seminar: Forest Pest Outbreaks
Prof Dave Rizzo
- Reviews major pest outbreaks (Major Forest Insect & Disease Conditions in the United States 2009 Update)
- Mentions weekend’s NY Times piece, (and see author’s commentary), reviews major pest outrbreak trends.
David Kling
Allee effects & Management (Gypsy moth). * Review review (Taylor & Hastings, 2005). * Simulation exploration: pmid: 19831081, * Also discuss (Tobin et. al. 2011). * (Epanchin-Niell & Hastings, 2010).
PMC
- Peter/Graham edits.
Picked up some LaTeX tricks (problems) in final edits: * Got pdf 1.5 version error on including cairo_pdf figures. adding \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=5 before the documentclass declaration solves this. * Using the fixed width paragraph option from the multirow package provides some flexible table formating. See this example.
Teary (Theory Tea)
Discussed this article onhiring statistics in Ecology & Evolution, and the reactions of our various faculty to it. Rather interesting, might be worth a post sometime.
Nick Fabina’s seminar
Excellent presentation on his corals work in CPB.
References
Taylor C and Hastings A (2005). “Allee Effects in Biological Invasions.” Ecology Letters, 8. ISSN 1461023X, https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00787.x.
Tobin P, Berec L and Liebhold A (2011). “Exploiting Allee Effects For Managing Biological Invasions.” Ecology Letters, 14. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01614.x.
Epanchin-Niell R and Hastings A (2010). “Controlling Established Invaders: Integrating Economics And Spread Dynamics to Determine Optimal Management.” Ecology Letters, 13. ISSN 1461023X, https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01440.x.