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Climate change in pest risk assessment: Interpretation and communication of uncertainties

EPPO Bulletin
The prevailing climatic conditions found in a region are the primary determinant of the suitability of that area to support pests and diseases. Pest risk assessment is the primary biosecurity tool used to assess that suitability, but the changing ...
C. Bradshaw, Dominic Eyre, Anastasia Korycinska, Christine Li, A. Steynor, Darren Kriticos   +5 more
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Including climate change in pest risk assessment: Current practices and perspectives for future implementation

EPPO Bulletin
The evaluation of the potential for newly arrived species to survive and the determination whether a founder population can become established and subsequently spread and cause negative impacts are crucial considerations when performing a pest risk ...
M. C. Rosace, N. Björklund, J. Boberg, C. Bradshaw, J. Camac, M. Damus, T. Kompas, C. Li, A. MacLeod, R. Maggini, E. Rossi, A. Szyniszewska, J. Tuomola, C. Gardi   +13 more
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Competition: A Missing Component of Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Risk Assessment and Planning

Insects, 2022
Simple Summary Tephritid fruit flies are highly invasive, globally important insect pests of horticulture. Significant effort goes into assessing and managing the risks posed by fruit flies, while substantial investments are made into their control.
A. Clarke, P. Measham
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Commodity risk assessment of bonsai plants from China consisting of Pinus parviflora grafted on Pinus thunbergii

EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority, 2022
The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to prepare and deliver a scientific opinion on the risk posed by bonsai plants from China consisting of Pinus parviflora grafted on Pinus thunbergii taking into account the available ...
C. Bragard, P. Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, J. A. Jaques Miret, A. Justesen, A. MacLeod, C. Magnusson, Panagiotis G. Milonas, J. Navas‐Cortés, S. Parnell, R. Potting, Philippe Reignault, E. Stefani, H. Thulke, W. van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, J. Yuen, L. Zappalà, A. Battisti, H. Mas, D. Rigling, M. Faccoli, G. Iacopetti, Alžběta Mikulová, Olaf Mosbach‐Schulz, F. Stergulc, P. Gonthier   +27 more
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Harmonia axyridis: an environmental risk assessment for Northwest Europe [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper, we summarize the international situation with respect to environmental risk assessment for biological control agents. Next, we apply a recently designed, comprehensive risk evaluation method consisting of a stepwise procedure to evaluate ...
Babendreier, D., Bigler, F., Lenteren, J.C., van, Loomans, A.J.M.   +3 more
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Degradation of four pesticides in five urban landscape soils: human and environmental health risk assessment

Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2022
Pesticides are the most cost-effective means of pest control; however, the serious concern is about the non-target effects due to their extensive and intensive use in both agricultural and non-agricultural settings.
I. M. Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Prasath Annamalai, A. Parven, M. Megharaj   +4 more
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Comparación de técnicas de clasificación deductivas para estimar la distribución potencial de insectos cuarentenarios [PDF]

, 2019
El objetivo de este trabajo fue comparar el desempeño de los criterios de clasificación nítidos y difusos en la construcción de modelos deductivos de la distribución potencial de insectos exóticos. Considerando criterios de clasificación binaria nítida y
Aceñolaza, Pablo Gilberto, Claps, Lucia Elena, Heit, Guillermo Eugenio, Sione, Walter Fabian   +3 more
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Risk assessment and forest pest management

The Forestry Chronicle, 1991
Prediction of potential harm, or risk assessment, is essential to planning for any vegetation management method, but the concepts and process are often not understood. This discussion is a highly simplistic description of the basic elements of toxicology and estimation of risk in excess of the high normal background.
openaire   +1 more source

Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
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Prioritising non-native pest species to inform plant health biosecurity policy decisions and to safeguard agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, and livelihoods in Uganda

Frontiers in Agronomy
In recent years, various invasive species have been introduced to sub-Saharan Africa, partly due to insufficient information about potential invasions, which has led countries to respond reactively rather than proactively.
Joseph Mulema, Caroline Nankinga, John Patrick Kanahe Kagorora, Geoffrey Tusiime, Robert Amayo, Martin Chemonges, Costa Gumisiriya, Fred Kato, Boniface Mulindwa Kigongo, David Kutunga, Barnabas Mudde, John Bosco Muhumuza, Yosia Mukasa, Herbert Musiimenta, Fred Muzira, Emmanuel John Namasa, Idd Ramathan, Gilbert Sebutare, Alexander Ssamula, Benius Tukahirwa, Samuel Morris Opio, Ivan Juma Obare, Caroline Aliamo, Christine Alokit, Venansio Tumuhaise, Daniel Karanja, Paul Mwambu, MaryLucy Oronje, Shahasi Yusuf Athman, Morris Akiri, Ivan Rwomushana, Joab Tugume, Herbert Talwana, Edward Onkendi, Mildred Ochwo   +34 more
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