Causality and Explainability for Trustworthy Integrated Pest Management [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Pesticides serve as a common tool in agricultural pest control but significantly contribute to the climate crisis. To combat this, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) stands as a climate-smart alternative. Despite its potential, IPM faces low adoption rates due to farmers' skepticism about its effectiveness.
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Mathematical model for pest-insect control using mating disruption and trapping [PDF]
Applied Mathematical Modelling 52 (2017), 437-457, 2016 Controlling pest insects is a challenge of main importance to preserve crop production. In the context of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs, we develop a generic model to study the impact of mating disruption control using an artificial female pheromone to confuse males and adversely affect their mating opportunities.
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Novel Dynamics in an Additional Food provided Predator-Prey System with mutual interference [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The provision of additional food (AF) sources to an introduced predator has been identified as a mechanism to improve pest control. However, AF models with prey dependent functional responses can cause unbounded growth of the predator \cite{S27}. To avoid such dynamics, an AF model with mutual interference effect has been proposed \cite{S02}.
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Resistance Management for Cancer: Lessons from Farmers [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 One of the main reasons we have not been able to cure cancers is that drugs select for drug-resistant cancer cells. Pest managers face similar challenges with pesticides selecting for pesticide-resistant organisms. Lessons in pest management have led to four heuristics that can be translated to controlling cancers 1.
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Improving Pest Monitoring Networks in order to reduce pesticide use in agriculture [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Disease and pest control largely rely on pesticides use and progress still remains to be made towards more sustainable practices. Pest Monitoring Networks (PMNs) can provide useful information for improving crop protection by restricting pesticide use to the situations that best require it.
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Pareto-efficient biological pest control enable high efficacy at small costs [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Biological pest control is increasingly used in agriculture as a an alternative to traditional chemical pest control. In many cases, this involves a one-off or periodic release of naturally occurring and/or genetically modified enemies such as predators, parasitoids, or pathogens. As the interaction between these enemies and the pest is complex and the
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Investigation to answer three key questions concerning plant pest identification and development of a practical identification framework [PDF]
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 222, July 2024,
109021The development of practical and robust automated diagnostic systems for identifying plant pests is crucial for efficient agricultural production. In this paper, we first investigate three key research questions (RQs) that have not been addressed thus far in the field of image-based plant pest identification.
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Mathematical modeling for sustainable aphid control in agriculture via intercropping [PDF]
, 2019 Agricultural losses to pest represent an important challenge in a global warming scenario. Intercropping is an alternative farming practice that promotes pest control without the use of chemical pesticides. Here we develop a mathematical model to study epidemic spreading and control in intercropped agricultural fields as a sustainable pest management ...
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A Proposed IoT Smart Trap using Computer Vision for Sustainable Pest Control in Coffee Culture [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a multi-purpose technology with enormous potential for improving the quality of life in several areas. In particular, IoT has been applied in agriculture to make it more sustainable ecologically. For instance, electronic traps have the potential to perform pest control without any pesticide.
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A Constant Introduction of Additional Food Does Not Yield Pest Eradication in Finite Time [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Biological control, the use of predators and pathogens to control target pests, is a promising alternative to chemical control. It is hypothesized that the introduced predators efficacy can be boosted by providing them with an additional food source.
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