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Biological control as an ecological process
Keasar, T., Wajnberg, E. Heimpel, G., Hardy, Ian C.W., Shaltiel, L., Gottlieb, D., van Nouhuys, S. 2023
Dynamic economic thresholds for agricultural pests and the importance of migration between field and off-field locations.
Forum article in Economic Entomology. 116(2), 2023, 321–330 DOI: 10.1093/jee/toad019
van Nouhuys, S., Harris, D. C., Hajek, A. E. 2023
Population level interactions between an invasive woodwasp, an invasive nematode and a community of native parasitoids.
Neobiota, 82: 67-88. 10.3897/neobiota.82.96599
van Nouhuys, S., Harris, D. C., Stephen, F. M., Galligan, L. D., Hajek, A. E. 2022
Association of the native parasitic nematode Deladenus proximus with individuals and populations of the native woodwasp Sirex nigricornis. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 24: 237-246. DOI: 10.1111/afe.12487
Hajek, A. E. and van Nouhuys, S. 2016
Fatal diseases and parasitoids: from competition to facilitation in a shared host
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283, 10.1098/rspb.2016.0154
Tscharntke, T., R. Bommarco, Y. Clough, T. Crist, D. Kleijn, T. Rand, J. Tylianakis, S. van Nouhuys, S.Vidal 2007
Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale
Biological Control, 43: 294-309
The evolutionary consequences of domestication
Poppy
Poppy is an ancient domesticated plant. Humans have selected it for medicinal use, food and flowers. PhD Student Pranoy is studying the how suites of plant traits have changed in response to this domestication.
Parasitoids
Plants and livestock have necessarily evolved due to domestication. However, insects with which they interact have also evolved. Long ago, Saskya studied the evolution of parasitoid wasp foraging behavior where its host is found on cultivated cabbage vs where it is found on wild mustard.
van Nouhuys, S. and S. Via 1999 Natural selection and genetic differentiation of behavior between parasitoids from wild and cultivated habitats Heredity, 83: 127-137