Modelling Insect Populations in Agricultural Landscapes

Dr Rafael de Andrade Moral is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Maynooth University. With a background in Biology and a PhD in Statistics from the University of São Paulo, he has a deep passion for teaching and conducting research in statistical modelling applied to Ecology, Wildlife Management, Agriculture, and Environmental Science. As director of the Theoretical and Statistical Ecology Group, Rafael brings together a community of researchers who use mathematical and statistical tools to better understand the natural world. As an alternative teaching strategy, he produces music videos to promote Statistics in social media and in the classroom.Dr Wesley Augusto Conde Godoy is an Associate Professor of Entomology at the University of São Paulo. With a passion for insect ecology and population dynamics, he leads the Laboratory of Ecology and Forest Entomology. His research encompasses a wide range of applications in ecology, including trophic interactions, and the development and application of mathematical, computational and statistical modelling. Wesley’s interests include the practical implementation of ecological modelling to advance the fields of entomology and pest science.

• Introduction.- Introducing different modelling scenarios to entomologists.- Monte Carlo simulations to model the behaviour of agricultural pests and their natural enemies.- Movement Ecology.- Transition models applied to interactions involving agricultural pests.- Spatial Agent-Based Model With Rules Inspired In Game-Theory: Cases In Insect Resistance Management.- Pest biocontrol and Allee effects acting on the control agent population: Insights from predator-prey models.- On Matrix Stability and Ecological Models.- Machine Vision Applied to Entomology.- Bayesian N-Mixture Models Applied to Estimating Insect Abundance.- Tools for Assessing Goodness-of-fit of GLMs: Case Studies in Entomology.