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Nancy A. Schellhorn is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Insect Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers various main topics within these fields, notably:

  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect Pest Control Strategies

Recent publications by Nancy A. Schellhorn include:

  • Better outcomes for pest pressure, insecticide use, and yield in less intensive agricultural landscapes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Landscape factors and how they influence whitefly pests in cassava fields across East Africa, 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • Fresh, frozen or fake: A comparison of predation rates measured by various types of sentinel prey, 2020, Journal of Applied Entomology
  • Simulating an invasion: unsealed water storage (rainwater tanks) and urban block design facilitate the spread of the dengue fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, in Brisbane, Australia, 2021, Biological Invasions
  • Evaluation of cultural control and resistance-breeding strategies for suppression of whitefly infestation of cassava at the landscape scale: a simulation modeling approach, 2020, Pest Management Science

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Myron P. Zalucki
  • Hazel Parry
  • Vesna Gagić
  • Andrew Hulthen
  • Rebecca K. Nagy

The scientist has published across various venues with consistent presence in:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Applied Entomology
  • Biological Invasions
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Pest Management Science

Best Publications

  • Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

    Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer;Timothy D. Meehan;Emily A. Martin

  • When natural habitat fails to enhance biological pest control – Five hypotheses ☆

    Teja Tscharntke;Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer;Péter Batáry

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Movement of entomophagous arthropods in agricultural landscapes: links to pest suppression.

    N.A. Schellhorn;F.J.J.A. Bianchi;C.L. Hsu

  • Time will tell: resource continuity bolsters ecosystem services

    Nancy A Schellhorn;Vesna Gagic;Vesna Gagic;Riccardo Bommarco

  • Forest Biodiversity and the Delivery of Ecosystem Goods and Services: Translating Science into Policy

    Ian D. Thompson;Kimiko Okabe;Jason M. Tylianakis;Pushpam Kumar

  • A perspective on management of Helicoverpa armigera: transgenic Bt cotton, IPM, and landscapes.

    Sharon Downes;Darren Kriticos;Hazel Parry;Cate Paull

  • Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes : Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

    Adriana De Palma;Adriana De Palma;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • The impact of weed diversity on insect population dynamics and crop yield in collards, Brassica oleraceae (Brassicaceae)

    Nancy A. Schellhorn;Victoria L. Sork

  • Cannibalism and interspecific predation: Role of oviposition behavior

    N. A. Schellhorn;David Andow

  • Managing ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: are the solutions the same?

    Sarina Macfadyen;Saul A. Cunningham;Alejandro C. Costamagna;Nancy A. Schellhorn

  • Response of coccinellids to their aphid prey at different spatial scales

    Nancy A. Schellhorn;Nancy A. Schellhorn;David A. Andow

  • Mortality of coccinellid (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) larvae and pupae when prey become scarce

    Nancy A. Schellhorn;David A. Andow

  • Connecting scales: Achieving in-field pest control from areawide and landscape ecology studies

    Nancy A. Schellhorn;Hazel R. Parry;Sarina Macfadyen;Yongmo Wang

  • Managing ecosystem services in broadacre landscapes: what are the appropriate spatial scales?

    Nancy A. Schellhorn;Sarina Macfadyen;Felix J. J. A. Bianchi;David G. Williams

  • Spatial variability in ecosystem services: simple rules for predator-mediated pest suppression.

    F. J. J. A. Bianchi;F. J. J. A. Bianchi;N. A. Schellhorn;Y. M. Buckley;Y. M. Buckley;H. P. Possingham

  • Early-season movement dynamics of phytophagous pest and natural enemies across a native vegetation-crop ecotone

    S. Macfadyen;J. Hopkinson;H. Parry;M.J. Neave

  • Habitat functionality for the ecosystem service of pest control: reproduction and feeding sites of pests and natural enemies

    Felix J. J. A. Bianchi;Nancy A. Schellhorn;Saul A. Cunningham

  • Interactions between conventional and organic farming for biocontrol services across the landscape

    F. J. J. A Bianchi;A. R. Ives;N. A. Schellhorn

  • COMPETITION BETWEEN NATIVE AND INTRODUCED PARASITOIDS OF APHIDS: NONTARGET EFFECTS AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

    Nancy A. Schellhorn;Timothy R. Kuhman;Anders C. Olson;Anthony R. Ives

  • Parasitoid and moth movement from refuge to crop

    N.A. Schellhorn;J. Bellati;C.A. Paull;L. Maratos

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix J.J.A. Bianchi
Felix J.J.A. Bianchi Wageningen University & Research
Myron P. Zalucki
Myron P. Zalucki University of Queensland
Saul A. Cunningham
Saul A. Cunningham Australian National University
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Katja Poveda
Katja Poveda Cornell University
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim

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