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Plant Disease Ecology
Ecological Genomics
Biodiversity Resource Science

Teaching

2007
PLPTH 920
Special Topic

Biodiversity, conservation, and ecosystem services in managed landscapes


Distributed Graduate Seminar on 'Biodiversity, conservation, and ecosystem services in managed landscapes' sponsored by National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Taught jointly with Tom Gordon, UC Davis, through a videoconference link

Two manuscripts from class projects:

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. 2009. Beyond yield: Plant disease in the context of ecosystem services. Phytopathology 99:1228-1236. [PDF]
(Designated by APS as one of the top nine papers of 2009 in Phytopathology)

In preparation. Ecosystem services in landscapes dominated by vineyards.


2006
PLPTH 905

Ecology and epidemiology of plant pathogens


Five teaching modules and a teaching article were developed from class projects

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/edcenter/advanced/topics/EcologyAndEpidemiologyInR/IntroductionToR/Pages/default.aspx NOTE CHANGED ADDRESS!

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/edcenter/advanced/topics/EcologyAndEpidemiologyInR/DiseaseProgress/Pages/default.aspx NOTE CHANGED ADDRESS!

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/edcenter/advanced/topics/EcologyAndEpidemiologyInR/ModelingDispersalGradients/Pages/default.aspx NOTE CHANGED ADDRESS!

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/edcenter/advanced/topics/EcologyAndEpidemiologyInR/SpatialAnalysis/Pages/default.aspx NOTE CHANGED ADDRESS!

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/edcenter/advanced/topics/EcologyAndEpidemiologyInR/DiseaseForecasting/Pages/default.aspx NOTE CHANGED ADDRESS!

K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, and L. Scharmann. 2007. Writing teaching documents as a class project. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: 10.1094/PHI-T-2007-1226-01. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/InstructorCommunication/TeachingArticles/Garrett


2005
PLPTH 920
Special Topic

Climate change and plant disease


Paper from class projects:
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]


Kansas State University

Department of Plant Pathology

Ecological Genomics Institute


PI: Karen A. Garrett