Using a cellular model to explore human-facilitated spread of risk of EAB in Minnesota

Anantha M. Prasad; Louis Iverson; Matthew Peters; Stephen Matthews

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Using a cellular model to explore human-facilitated spread of risk of EAB in Minnesota

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Authors:

Anantha M. Prasad, Louis Iverson, Matthew Peters, Stephen Matthews

Year:

2011

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Parra, Gregory; Lance, David; Mastro, Victor; Reardon, Richard; Benedict, Chuck, comps. 2011 emerald ash borer national research and technology development meeting; 2011 October 12-13; Wooster, OH. FHTET-2011-06. Morgantown, WV; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team: 127-128.

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Abstract

The Emerald Ash Borer has made inroads to Minnesota in the past two years, killing ash trees. We use our spatially explicit cell based model called EAB-SHIFT to calculate the risk of infestation owing to flight characteristics and short distance movement of the insect (insect flight model, IFM), and the human facilitated agents like roads, campgrounds etc. (insect ride model, IRM). We combine the IFM and IRM to realize the potential risk of infestation in the near term.

Citation

Prasad, Anantha; Iverson, Louis; Peters, Matthew; Matthews, Steve. 2011. Using a cellular model to explore human-facilitated spread of risk of EAB in Minnesota. In: Parra, Gregory; Lance, David; Mastro, Victor; Reardon, Richard; Benedict, Chuck, comps. 2011 emerald ash borer national research and technology development meeting; 2011 October 12-13; Wooster, OH. FHTET-2011-06. Morgantown, WV; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team: 127-128.