Peter Skelsey
Information and Computational Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Peter Skelsey works at Scottish Crop Research Institute
Research Interest
Developing new epidemic theory regarding the relationship between population heterogeneity, scale of heterogeneity, and spread of pests and diseases. Building spatially explicit, multi-scale decision support tools (disease forecasting systems). Performing climate change risk assessments for numerous pests and pathogens of importance to the Scottish economy.
Publications
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Skelsey, P., Cooke, D.E.L., Lynott, J.S., Lees, A.K. 2016. Crop connectivity under climate change: future environmental and geographic risks of potato late blight in Scotland. Global Change Biology
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kelsey, P., Kettle, H., MacKenzie, K., Blok, V. 2017. Potential impacts of climate change on the threat of potato cyst nematode species in Great Britain. Plant Pathology, in press.
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Skelsey, P., Dancey, S.R., Preedy, K., Lees, A.K., Cooke, D.E.L. 2017. Forecasting the spread of aerially transmitted crop diseases with a binary classifier for inoculum survival. Plant Pathology, in press.
