@article{chappell_beaudoin_kennedy_2013, title={Interacting Virus Abundance and Transmission Intensity Underlie Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Incidence: An Example Weather-Based Model for Cultivated Tobacco}, volume={8}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073321}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0073321}, abstractNote={Through a modeling approach, we investigated weather factors that affect the summer incidence of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), a virus vectored exclusively by thrips, in cultivated tobacco. Aspects of thrips and plant biology that affect disease spread were treated as functions of weather, leading to a model of disease incidence informed by thrips and plant biology, and dependent on weather input variables. We found that disease incidence during the summer was influenced by weather affecting thrips activity during the preceding year, especially during a time when thrips transmit TSWV to and from the plant hosts that constitute the virus’ natural reservoir. We identified an interaction between spring precipitation and earlier weather affecting thrips, relating this to virus abundance and transmission intensity as interacting factors affecting disease incidence. Throughout, weather is the basic driver of epidemiology in the system, and our findings allowed us to detect associations between atypically high- or low-incidence years and the local climatic deviations from normal weather patterns, brought about by El Niño Southern Oscillation transitions.}, number={8}, journal={PLoS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Chappell, Thomas M. and Beaudoin, Amanda L. P. and Kennedy, George G.}, editor={Bond-Lamberty, BenEditor}, year={2013}, month={Aug}, pages={e73321} }
 @article{beaudoin_kennedy_2012, title={Management of Winter Weeds Affects Frankliniella fusca (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Dispersal}, volume={41}, ISSN={["1938-2936"]}, DOI={10.1603/en10308}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT 
 Frankliniella fusca (Hinds) naturally disperses from winter weeds to crops in spring, causing direct and indirect damage. Field preparation before planting includes use of herbicides or cultivation to kill unwanted vegetation, which adversely affects F. fusca host plants and potentially influences F. fusca dispersal. Common chickweed, Stellaria media (L.), infested with F. fusca, was used as a model to study effects of timing and type of vegetation management on adult dispersal. Infested weeds were caged and F. fusca weekly dispersal was monitored using sticky traps. Weed management treatments performed at an early (14 April–11 May) or late (2 wk after early treatment) date consisted of glyphosate, paraquat, disking, hoeing, or untreated control. Late glyphosate and hoeing treatments resulted in cumulative dispersal statistically similar to or greater than from control plots. Compared with the control, significantly more F. fusca dispersed from the glyphosate and hoeing plots during the 3 wk after treatment. More thrips dispersed from the late paraquat treatment 1 wk post-application than from the control. Dispersal from the disked treatment and early paraquat treatment was similar to that of the control 1- to 3-wk post-treatment. Early treatments resulted in significantly smaller cumulative dispersal than the control in all but one instance. Late disking and paraquat treatments resulted in cumulative F. fusca captures that were statistically similar or less than that in the control. Winter weed management type and timing affect F. fusca dispersal magnitude and duration.}, number={2}, journal={ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY}, author={Beaudoin, A. L. P. and Kennedy, G. G.}, year={2012}, month={Apr}, pages={362–369} }
 @article{morsello_beaudoin_groves_nault_kennedy_2010, title={The influence of temperature and precipitation on spring dispersal of Frankliniella fusca changes as the season progresses}, volume={134}, ISSN={["1570-7458"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00959.x}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={3}, journal={ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA}, author={Morsello, Shannon C. and Beaudoin, Amanda L. P. and Groves, Russell L. and Nault, Brian A. and Kennedy, George G.}, year={2010}, month={Mar}, pages={260–271} }