Many unreported crop pests and pathogens are probably already present
D. P. Bebber, E. M. Field, H. Gui, P. Mortimer, T. Holmes, S. J. Gurr
The paper develops predictive models to estimate the presence of crop pests using global data and tests them in China, finding many unreported pests likely present.
bioRxiv · Apr 19, 2019Ecology