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Overview

Tatyana A. Rand is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with specific attention to insect science, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, soil science, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work spans several key topics including:

  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Biological Control of Invasive Species
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Several recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their research:

  • "Effect of Previous Crop Roots on Soil Compaction in 2 Yr Rotations under a No-Tillage System" (2021), published in Land
  • "Aphid Honeydew Enhances Parasitoid Longevity to the Same Extent as a High-Quality Floral Resource: Implications for Conservation Biological Control of the Wheat Stem Sawfly (Hymenoptera: Cephidae)" (2020), published in Journal of Economic Entomology
  • "Modeling the combined impacts of host plant resistance and biological control on the population dynamics of a major pest of wheat" (2020), published in Pest Management Science
  • "Effects of Landscape Composition on Wheat Stem Sawfly (Hymenoptera: Cephidae) and Its Associated Braconid Parasitoids" (2020), published in Journal of Economic Entomology
  • "Post-dispersal factors influence recruitment patterns but do not override the importance of seed limitation in populations of a native thistle" (2020), published in Oecologia

Tatyana A. Rand frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • Joshua W. Campbell
  • Natalie M. West
  • J. D. Jabro
  • Brett L. Allen
  • Sadikshya R. Dangi

Their research has appeared in several publication venues, with notable contributions in:

  • Journal of Economic Entomology
  • The Canadian Entomologist
  • Environmental Entomology
  • Land
  • Pest Management Science

Best Publications

  • Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

    Teja Tscharntke;Jason M. Tylianakis;Tatyana A. Rand;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham

  • Interactive effects of habitat modification and species invasion on native species decline.

    Raphael K. Didham;Jason M. Tylianakis;Neil J. Gemmell;Tatyana A. Rand

  • Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale

    Teja Tscharntke;Riccardo Bommarco;Yann Clough;Thomas O. Crist

  • Reprint of “Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale” [Biol. Control 43 (2007) 294–309]

    Teja Tscharntke;Riccardo Bommarco;Yann Clough;Thomas O. Crist

  • Spillover edge effects: the dispersal of agriculturally subsidized insect natural enemies into adjacent natural habitats.

    Tatyana A. Rand;Jason M. Tylianakis;Teja Tscharntke

  • Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats

    Eleanor J. Blitzer;Carsten F. Dormann;Andrea Holzschuh;Alexandra-Maria Klein

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

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

  • Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications

    Teja Tscharntke;Michael E. Hochberg;Tatyana A. Rand;Vincent H. Resh

  • The landscape context of trophic interactions : insect spillover across the crop-noncrop interface

    Teja Tscharntke;Tatyana A. Rand;Felix J. J. A. Bianchi

  • Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems

    Jason M Tylianakis;Jason M Tylianakis;Tatyana A Rand;Tatyana A Rand;Ansgar Kahmen;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Alexandra-Maria Klein

  • Seed dispersal, habitat suitability and the distribution of halophytes across a salt marsh tidal gradient

    Tatyana A. Rand

  • Invasiveness of Some Biological Control Insects and Adequacy of Their Ecological Risk Assessment and Regulation

    Svata M. Louda;Amy E. Arnett;Tatyana A. Rand;F. L. Russell

  • Contrasting effects of natural habitat loss on generalist and specialist aphid natural enemies

    Tatyana A. Rand;Teja Tscharntke

  • Spillover of agriculturally subsidized predators as a potential threat to native insect herbivores in fragmented landscapes.

    Tatyana A. Rand;Svata M. Louda

  • Complementarity and redundancy of interactions enhance attack rates and spatial stability in host-parasitoid food webs.

    Guadalupe Peralta;Carol M. Frost;Tatyana A. Rand;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham

  • EXOTIC WEED INVASION INCREASES THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF NATIVE PLANTS TO ATTACK BY A BIOCONTROL HERBIVORE

    Tatyana A. Rand;Svata M. Louda

  • Apparent competition drives community-wide parasitism rates and changes in host abundance across ecosystem boundaries.

    Carol M. Frost;Guadalupe Peralta;Tatyana A. Rand;Raphael K. Didham

  • Variation in insect herbivory across a salt marsh tidal gradient influences plant survival and distribution

    Tatyana A. Rand

  • HERBIVORE‐MEDIATED APPARENT COMPETITION BETWEEN TWO SALT MARSH FORBS

    Tatyana A. Rand

  • Community-level net spillover of natural enemies from managed to natural forest

    Carol M. Frost;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Tatyana A. Rand;Guadalupe Peralta

  • Evaluation of ecological risk to populations of a threatened plant from an invasive biocontrol insect

    S. M. Louda;T. A. Rand;A. E. Arnett;A. S. McClay

  • Landscape-scale patterns of biological invasions in shoreline plant communities

    John F. Bruno;Coleman W. Kennedy;Tatyana A. Rand;Mary Bestor Grant

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Raphael K. Didham
Raphael K. Didham University of Western Australia
Svata M. Louda
Svata M. Louda University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Thomas O. Crist
Thomas O. Crist Miami University
Yann Clough
Yann Clough Lund University
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
David Kleijn
David Kleijn Wageningen University & Research
Péter Batáry
Péter Batáry Centre for Ecological Research
Robert M. Ewers
Robert M. Ewers Imperial College London

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