David Cook

TL;DR: Overall, the biggest agricultural producers (China and the United States) could experience the greatest absolute cost from further species invasions, however, developing countries, in particular, Sub-Saharan African countries, appear most vulnerable in relative terms.

TL;DR: Gene silencing showed that genes in a 31-kilobase segment at rhg1-b, encoding an amino acid transporter, an α-SNAP protein, and a WI12 (wound-inducible domain) protein, each contribute to resistance against soybean cyst nematode.

TL;DR: An alternative view of plant innate immunity as a system that evolves to detect invasion is discussed, which accommodates the range from mutualistic to parasitic symbioses that plants form with diverse organisms, as well as the spectrum of ligands that the plant immune system perceives.

TL;DR: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) mechanisms leverage economic and social incentives to shape how people influence natural processes and achieve conservation and sustainability goals as mentioned in this paper. But many projects are based on weak scientific foundations, and effectiveness is rarely evaluated with the rigor necessary for scaling up and understanding the importance of these approaches as policy instruments and conservation tools.

TL;DR: A stochastic bioeconomic model is developed that enables the economic impact of an invasive pest to be estimated before its arrival, based on relatively poorly specified ecological and economic parameters, and suggests that current invasion response funding arrangements in Australia require amendment.