The 2024 annual meeting of the International Pest Risk Research Group will be held in the beautiful city of Malaga, Spain, in association with the Spanish National Research Council and University of Malaga . The meeting will take place at the Institute for Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), from 17th to 20th September 2024. We'd love for you to join us! Online abstract submission is open and has been extended to 31 July 2024.
The IPRRG webinar series continues! Anyone can attend one of our webinars by following the webcast link on the "IPRRG Webinar Series" page. Recordings are also available afterward via IPRRG's YouTube channel. ** Interested in presenting? contact one of the Executive Committee officers! **
A new Group project, known by the nickname "Project X", emerged from the IPRRG 2018 meeting in Taichung, Taiwan. The project is intended to focus the skills and talents of IPRRG on a pressing global issue. A full prospectus for the project is available on the Project X page.
IPRRG members Tania Yonow and Darren Kriticos had an article published recently in the Journal PLOS One: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220601 Who doesn’t like a nice banana? In this paper we were able to demonstrate a robust relationship between Disease Pressure assessments from a group of experts in Black Sigatoka pathology and climate suitability modelled using CLIMEX. This […]
Introduction to CLIMEX Version 4 This course is timed to coincide with the upcoming meeting in Poznań, allowing you to make the most of your travel. We have included CLIMEX is one of the most powerful computer-based tools available to pest risk assessors and ecologists to explore the geographical effects of climate on organisms. Using […]
The French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and Forest Zoology Research Unit, Orléans, France (URZF) are pleased to offer a post-doctoral position in pest risk modelling. (Click here for a PDF version of this announcement — please share widely!) Context: The post-doctoral researcher will participate to the European project HOMED (HOlistic Management of Emerging […]
Hey Everyone, Check out the following new article by IPRRG members Senait Senay (also our current Secretary-Treasurer) and Sue Worner: Senay, S.D.; Worner, S.P. 2019. Multi-scenario species distribution modeling. Insects 10(3): 65, https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10030065 The article is in the Special Issue “Invasive Insect Species Modelling and Control”. It’s open access, so full text and PDF versions […]
IPRRG members Kylie Ireland and Darren Kriticos had an article published recently in the International Journal of Pest Management. Here’s more from Kylie: Why are plant pathogens under-represented in eco-climatic niche modelling? Check this out – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670874.2018.1543910 Plenty of opportunity exists to model plant pathogens into the future and push the concept of the niche […]