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Overview

Andrew White is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Infectious Diseases, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research addresses various topics such as Geological formations and processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Zoonotic diseases and public health.

Recent scholarly contributions include:

  • Exploring Ecological, Morphological, and Environmental Controls on Coastal Foredune Evolution at Annual Scales Using a Process-Based Model (2024) published in Sustainability
  • The impact of an African swine fever outbreak on endemic tuberculosis in wild boar populations: A model analysis (2021) published in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Immune interactions and heterogeneity in transmission drives the pathogen-mediated invasion of grey squirrels in the UK (2024) published in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • North Carolina Outer Banks, USA Coastal Foredune Sediment Cores - Grain Size Data & Core Log Descriptions (2020) published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • North Carolina Outer Banks, USA Coastal Foredune Sediment Cores - Grain Size Data & Core Log Descriptions (2020) published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Andrew White frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors including:

  • Nicholas Cohn
  • Elizabeth Davis
  • Christopher J. Hein
  • Julie C. Zinnert
  • Selwyn Heminway

Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Sustainability
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Ecological replacement of native red squirrels by invasive greys driven by disease

    D. M. Tompkins;A. R. White;M. Boots

  • The evolution of parasites in response to tolerance in their hosts: The good, the bad, and apparent commensalism

    Martin R. Miller;Andrew White;Michael Boots

  • The role of ecological feedbacks in the evolution of host defence: what does theory tell us?

    Michael Boots;Alex Best;Martin R Miller;Andrew White

  • Climate change impacts on ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink: a new assessment

    Andrew White;Melvin G.R. Cannell;Andrew D. Friend

  • Invading with biological weapons: the importance of disease-mediated invasions

    Alexander Strauss;Andy White;Mike Boots

  • The consequences of CO2 stabilisation for the impacts of climate change

    N.W. Arnell;M.G.R. Cannell;M. Hulme;R.S. Kovats

  • The evolution of host resistance: tolerance and control as distinct strategies.

    M.R. Miller;A. White;M. Boots

  • Maintenance of host variation in tolerance to pathogens and parasites.

    A. Best;A. White;M. Boots

  • The high‐latitude terrestrial carbon sink: a model analysis

    A. White;M. G. R. Cannell;A. D. Friend

  • An analysis of some diverse approaches to modelling terrestrial net primary productivity

    B. Adams;A. White;T.M. Lenton

  • HOST LIFE SPAN AND THE EVOLUTION OF RESISTANCE CHARACTERISTICS

    Martin R. Miller;Andrew White;Michael Boots

  • CO2 stabilization, climate change and the terrestrial carbon sink

    Andrew White;Melvin G. R. Cannell;Andrew D. Friend

  • The implications of coevolutionary dynamics to host-parasite interactions.

    Alex Best;Andy White;Mike Boots

  • Host-parasite population dynamics under combined frequency-and density-dependent transmission

    Jonathan J. Ryder;Martin R. Miller;Andy White;Robert J. Knell

  • Parasite-grass-forb interactions and rock-paper- scissor dynamics: predicting the effects of the parasitic plant Rhinanthus minor on host plant communities

    Duncan D. Cameron;Andy White;Janis Antonovics

  • The influence of land use change on global-scale fluxes of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems

    P. E. Levy;A. D. Friend;A. White;M. G. R. Cannell

  • The geometric theory of adaptive evolution: trade-off and invasion plots.

    Roger G. Bowers;Andrew Hoyle;Andrew White;Michael Boots

  • The Limitations of Model-Based Experimental Design and Parameter Estimation in Sloppy Systems.

    Andrew White;Malachi Tolman;Howard D. Thames;Hubert Rodney Withers

  • The coevolutionary implications of host tolerance.

    Alex Best;Alex Best;Andrew White;Mike Boots

  • Host resistance and coevolution in spatially structured populations

    Alex Best;Steve Webb;Andrew White;Mike Boots

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Boots
Mike Boots University of California, Berkeley
Michael Begon
Michael Begon University of Liverpool
Peter W. W. Lurz
Peter W. W. Lurz University of Edinburgh
Andrew D. Friend
Andrew D. Friend University of Cambridge
Christian Gortázar
Christian Gortázar University of Castilla-La Mancha
Xavier Lambin
Xavier Lambin University of Aberdeen
Francisco Ruiz-Fons
Francisco Ruiz-Fons University of Castilla-La Mancha
Andrew J. Lowe
Andrew J. Lowe University of Adelaide
Susan E. Hartley
Susan E. Hartley University of Sheffield
Timothy M. Lenton
Timothy M. Lenton University of Exeter

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