Research Topics
Ecology, Biological Control, and evolution in agricultural systemsBIOLOGICAL CONTROL AS AN ECOLOGICAL PROCESS
Impact of insecticides on biological control
Keasar, T., Wajnberg, E. Heimpel, G., Hardy, Ian C.W., Shaltiel, L., Gottlieb, D., van Nouhuys, S. 2023
Dynamic economic thresholds for agricultural pests and the importance of migration between field and off-field locations. Forum article in Economic Entomology. 116(2), 2023, 321–330 DOI: 10.1093/jee/toad019
Keasar, C., Keasar, T, van Nouhuys, S. (2024) Plant protection- ‘red lines’ and AI. in IsraelAgri.
The effects of interacting natural enemies in biological control systems
van Nouhuys, S., Harris, D. C., Hajek, A. E. 2023
Population level interactions between an invasive woodwasp, an invasive nematode and a community of native parasitoids.
Neobiota, 82: 67-88. 10.3897/neobiota.82.96599
van Nouhuy s, S., Harris, D. C., Stephen, F. M., Galligan, L. D., Hajek, A. E. 2022
Association of the native parasitic nematode Deladenus proximus with individuals and populations of the native woodwasp Sirex nigricornis . Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 24: 237-246. DOI: 10.1111/afe.12487
Hajek, A. E. and van Nouhuys, S. 2016
Fatal diseases and parasitoids: from competition to facilitation in a shared host
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283, 10.1098/rspb.2016.0154
The evolutionary consequences of domestication
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Parasitoids
Plants and their pest herbivores have of course evolved due to domestication. Parasitoids that reply on herbivores in agricultural systems have also evolved. Long ago, for her PhD, Saskya studied the evolution of parasitoid wasp foraging behavior where its host is found on cultivated cabbage vs where it is found on wild mustard. van Nouhuys, S. and S. Via 1999 Natural selection and genetic differentiation of behavior between parasitoids from wild and cultivated habitats Heredity, 83: 127-137