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
- Insecticide resistance signals negative consequences of widespread neonicotinoid use on multiple field crops in the US cotton belt (2018)
- Responses of neonicotinoid resistant and susceptible Frankliniella fusca life stages to multiple insecticide groups in cotton (2017)
- 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)
- Estimating e-race European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) adult activity in snap bean fields based on corn planting intensity and their activity in corn in New York agroecosystems (2016)
- Frankliniella fusca resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides: An emerging challenge for cotton pest management in the eastern United States (2016)
- Evaluating an action threshold-based insecticide program on onion cultivars varying in resistance to onion thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) (2016)