Publications by authors named "Daniel W Gladish"

Article Synopsis
  • International trade in horticultural products requires strict phytosanitary inspections to certify that the levels of infestation in exported fruit are below certain thresholds.
  • The study introduces a hierarchical Bayesian model that combines data from in-field monitoring and consignment inspections to determine the overall prevalence of infested fruit in a production system.
  • Results show that effective inspection practices, combined with pre-harvest monitoring, can improve confidence in identifying low infestation rates, highlighting the importance of both methods in managing pest prevalence.
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Pest insect surveillance using lures is widely used to support market access requirements for traded articles that are hosts or carriers of quarantine pests. Modeling has been used extensively to guide the design of surveillance to support pest free area claims but is less commonly applied to provide confidence in pest freedom or low pest prevalence within sites registered for trade. Site-based surveillance typically needs to detect pests that are already present in the site or that may be entering the site from surrounding areas.

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The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for urgent actions to reduce global biodiversity loss. Here, we synthesize >44,000 articles published in the past decade to assess the research focus on global drivers of loss. Relative research efforts on different drivers are not well aligned with their assessed impact, and multiple driver interactions are hardly considered.

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