Safeguard Workshop Tool
We developed a workshop tool designed to spark discussion among stakeholders regarding the intersection of policy and evidence surrounding the pressures facing pollinators.…
Resistance Evolution in Parasitoid Biocontrol: Understanding the Rule, managing the exceptions.
In review: In contrast to chemical pest control, biological control (biocontrol) is generally considered evolutionarily stable, with pests rarely evolving resistance to agents such as parasitoid wasps.…
A practical approach to developing and using online games for transdisciplinary research into complex social-ecological systems
Research games provide a promising avenue for studying social-ecological systems because they can capture complexity and reflect multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. However...…
resevol: An R package for spatially explicit models of pesticide resistance given evolving pest genomes
The evolution of pesticide resistance is a widespread problem with potentially severe consequences for global food security. We introduce the resevol R package...…
Fungal pathogen resistance can be a highly complex and variable trait
We investigated the genetic complexity of fungal pathogen resistance in a major crop pest and compared resistance to two distinct species of fungal pathogen...…
When rare gametes meet
Genome-doubling readily occurs in flowering plants (angiosperms) and is linked with speciation as well as major innovations (seeds and flowers). Beneficial traits (increased flower size and number) are often expressed by the resulting polyploid species...…
Population and Community Ecology Teaching Tools
Using Shiny to create interactive R models for teaching population and community ecology.…