Ecological modeling

Relevant Publications

In review. M. R. Cheatham, M. N. Rouse, P. D. Esker, S. Ignacio, W. Pradel, R. Raymundo, A. H. Sparks, G. A. Forbes, T. R. Gordon, and K. A. Garrett. Beyond yield: Plant disease in the context of ecosystem services.

In review. G. L. Gadbury, K. A. Garrett, and D. B. Allison. Challenges and approaches to statistical design and inference in high dimensional investigations.

In review. K. A. Garrett, L. N. Zúñiga, E. Roncal, G. A. Forbes, C. C. Mundt, Z. Su, and R. J. Nelson. The effects of host biodiversity on disease across a climatic gradient.

In review. M. L. Margosian, K. A. Garrett, J. M. S. Hutchinson, and K. A. With. Connectivity of the American agricultural landscape: Assessing the national risk of crop pest and disease spread.

K. A. Garrett. 2008. Climate change and plant disease risk. In Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Potential Contributions to the Emergence, Reemergence and Spread of Infectious Disease. National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine. In revision.

K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, and A. H. Sparks. 2007. An introduction to the R programming environment. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-02.
Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc0

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, Z. Guo, V. Segovia, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease progress over time. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-02. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc1

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, G. Antony, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, V. Segovia, and K. A. Garrett. 2007. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Modeling dispersal gradients. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc2

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, G. Antony, L. Campbell, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, M. N. Rouse, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Spatial pattern analysis. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc3

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, L. Campbell, Z. Guo, M. N. Rouse, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease forecasting and validation. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-01. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc4

G. A. Milliken, K. A. Garrett, and S. E. Travers. 2007. Experimental design for two-color microarrays applied in a pre-existing split-plot experiment. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6, Article 20. Available at http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol6/iss1/art20 [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, S. P. Dendy, E. E. Frank, M. N. Rouse, and S. E. Travers. 2006. Climate change effects on plant disease: Genomes to ecosystems. Annual Review of Phytopathology 44:489-509. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, and S. E. Travers. 2006. Ecological genomics and epidemiology. European Journal of Plant Pathology 115:35-51. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, M. Kabbage, and W. W. Bockus. 2004. Managing for fine-scale differences in inoculum load: Seeding patterns to minimize loss to wheat take-all. Precision Agriculture 5:291-301. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, L. V. Madden, G. Hughes, and W. F. Pfender. 2004. New applications of statistical tools in plant pathology. Phytopathology 94:999-1003. [PDF]

M. S. Rosenberg, K. A. Garrett, Z. Su, and R. L. Bowden. 2004. Meta-analysis in plant pathology: Methods for research synthesis. Phytopathology 94:1013-1017. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and R. L. Bowden. 2002. An Allee effect reduces the invasive potential of Tilletia indica. Phytopathology 92:1152-1159. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 1999. Epidemiology in diverse host populations. Phytopathology 89:984-990. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and P. M. Dixon. 1998. When does the spatial pattern of weeds matter? Predictions from neighborhood models. Ecological Applications 8:1250-1259. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and P. M. Dixon. 1997. Environmental pseudointeraction: The effects of ignoring the scale of environmental heterogeneity in competition studies. Theoretical Population Biology 51:37-48.

K. A. Garrett. 1997. Use of statistical tests of equivalence (bioequivalence tests) in plant pathology. Phytopathology 87:372-374. [PDF]

P. M. Dixon and K. A. Garrett. 1994. Statistical Issues for Field Experimenters. Pages 439-450 in Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems. R. J. Kendall and T. E. Lacher, Jr., editors. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.

P. M. Dixon and K. A. Garrett. 1993. Sampling ecological information: Choice of sample size, reconsidered. Ecological Modelling 68:67-73.

Kansas State University

Department of Plant Pathology

Ecological Genomics Institute

PI: Karen A. Garrett