Inferring stratified parasitoid dispersal mechanisms and parameters from coarse data using mathematical and Bayesian methods.

ABSTRACT: Biological invasions have movement at the core of their success. However, due to difficulties in collecting data, medium- and long-distance dispersal of small insects has long been poorly understood and likely to be underestimated. The agricultural release of parasitic hymenoptera, a group of wasps that are critical for biological pest control, represents a rare opportunity to study the spread of insects on multiple spatial scales. As these insects are typically less than 1 mm in size and are challenging to track individually, a first-time biocontrol release will provide a known spatial position and time of initial release for all individuals that are subsequently collected. In this paper, we develop and validate a new mathematical model for parasitoid wasp dispersal from point release, as

SUBMITTER: Strickland C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5454288 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature