Anders uses geospatial analytics to understand how crop production patterns affect insect pest populations. He applies spatio-temporal models to understand how agricultural pests respond to agroecosystem structure and whether this knowledge can be leveraged to reduce pesticide use. Results of his research defines crop infestation risk and damage mitigation strategies for crops in North Carolina. Other interests include pesticide resistance evolution, predator-prey interactions within managed landscapes and remote sensing for agriculture.
Roles
Publications
- Determining Frankliniella fusca (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Egg Distribution in Neonicotinoid Seed-Treated Cotton (2019)
- Seasonal dispersal of Lygus lineolaris (Hemiptera: Miridae) from weedy hosts into differently fragmented cotton landscapes in North Carolina (2019)
- Stability of neonicotinoid sensitivity in Frankliniella fusca populations found in agroecosystems of the southeastern USA (2019)
- Agricultural fungicides inadvertently influence the fitness of Colorado potato beetles, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, and their susceptibility to insecticides (2018)
- Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition (2018)
- Insecticide resistance signals negative consequences of widespread neonicotinoid use on multiple field crops in the US cotton belt (2018)
- Temporal efficacy of neonicotinoid seed treatments against Frankliniella fusca on cotton (2018)
- Widespread detections of neonicotinoid contaminants in central Wisconsin groundwater (2018)
- Responses of neonicotinoid resistant and susceptible Frankliniella fusca life stages to multiple insecticide groups in cotton (2017)
- Rna interference of three up-regulated transcripts associated with insecticide resistance in an imidacloprid resistant population of leptinotarsa decemlineata (2017)