Items where Author is "Cheke, Robert A."

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Cheke, Robert A. and Garms, Rolf (2013) Indices of onchocerciasis transmission by different members of the Simulium damnosum complex conflict with the paradigm of forest and savanna parasite strains. Acta Tropica, 125 (1). pp. 43-52. ISSN 0001-706X (doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.09.002)

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. (2013) Threshold conditions for integrated pest management models with pesticides that have residual effects. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 66 (1-2). pp. 1-35. ISSN 0303-6812 (doi:10.1007/s00285-011-0501-x)

Cheke, Robert A., McWilliam, Andrew N., Mbereki, Collen, van der Walt, Etienne, Mtobesya, Boaz, Magoma, Richard N., Young, Stephen and Eberly, J. Patrick (2012) Effects of the organophosphate fenthion for control of the red-billed quelea Quelea quelea on cholinesterase and haemoglobin concentrations in the blood of target and non-target birds. Ecotoxicology, 21 (7). pp. 1761-1770. ISSN 0963-9292 (doi:10.1007/s10646-012-0911-6)

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. (2012) An integrated pest management model with delayed responses to pesticide applications and its threshold dynamics. Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 13 (5). pp. 2352-2374. ISSN 1468-1218 (doi:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2012.02.003)

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. (2012) An integrated pest management model with delayed responses to pesticide applications and its threshold dynamics. Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications. ISSN 1468-1218 (In Press) (doi:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2012.02.003)

Tan, Ronghua, Liu, Zhijun and Cheke, Robert A. (2012) Periodicity and stability in a single-species model governed by impulsive differential equation. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 36 (3). pp. 1085-1094. ISSN 0307-904X (doi:10.1016/j.apm.2011.07.056)

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. and Wu, Jianhong (2012) Campus quarantine (Fengxiao) for curbing emergent infectious diseases: Lessons from mitigating A/H1N1 in Xi'an, China. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 295. pp. 47-58. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. and Wu, Jianhong (2012) Campus quarantine (Fengxiao) for curbing emergent infectious diseases: lessons from mitigating A/H1N1 in Xi’an, China. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 295. pp. 47-58. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. (2012) Sliding bifurcations of Filippov two stage pest control models with economic thresholds. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 72 (4). pp. 1061-1080. ISSN 0036-1399 (print), 1095-712X (online) (doi:10.1137/110847020)

Cheke, Robert A., Adranyi, Enoch, Cox, John R., Farman, Dudley I., Magoma, Richard N., Mbereki, Collen, McWilliam, Andrew N., Mtobesya, Boaz N. and van der Walt, Etienne (2012) Soil contamination and persistence of pollutants following organophosphate sprays and explosions to control red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea). Pest Management Science. ISSN 1526-498X (In Press) (doi:10.1002/ps.3311)

Borello, Wendy D. and Cheke, Robert A. (2011) Fidelity to non-breeding grounds by migrant Red-billed Quelea quelea lathamii in Botswana. The Babbler, 56. pp. 11-14. (In Press)

Cheke, Robert A. (2011) British Ornithologists’ Union: Union medal. Peter Jones. Ibis, 153 (2). pp. 438-439. ISSN 1474-919X (online) (doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01113.x)

Liu, Zhijun, Wu, Jianhua and Cheke, Robert A. (2010) Coexistence and partial extinction in a delay competitive system subject to impulsive harvesting and stocking. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 75 (5). pp. 777-795. ISSN 0272-4960 (print), 1464-3634 (online) (doi:10.1093/imamat/hxq033)

Adler, Peter H., Cheke, Robert A. and Post, Rory J. (2010) Evolution, epidemiology, and population genetics of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 10 (7). pp. 846-865. ISSN 1567-1348 (doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2010.07.003)

Tang, Sanyi, Tang, Guangyao and Cheke, Robert A. (2010) Optimum timing for integrated pest management: modelling rates of pesticide application and natural enemy releases. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 264 (2). pp. 623-638. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.02.034)

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. (2010) Dynamical analysis of plant disease models with cultural control strategies and economic thresholds. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 80 (5). pp. 894-921. ISSN 0378-4754 (doi:10.1016/j.matcom.2009.10.004)

Tratalos, Jamie A., Cheke, Robert A., Healey, Richard G. and Stenseth , Nils Chr. (2010) Desert locust populations, rainfall and climate change: insights from phenomenological models using gridded monthly data. Climate Research, 43 (3). pp. 229-239. ISSN 0936-577X (print), 1616-1572 (online) (doi:10.3354/cr00930)

Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. and Xiao, Yanni (2009) Effects of predator and prey dispersal on success or failure of biological control. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 71 (8). pp. 2025-2047. ISSN 0092-8240 (Print), 1522-9602 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s11538-009-9438-2)

King, Tony and Cheke, Robert A. (2009) Cooperative breeding in the Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantium. Malimbus, 31 (1). pp. 20-27. ISSN 0331-3689

Cheke, Robert A. (2009) Book review: Spatial analysis in epidemiology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103 (12). p. 1295. ISSN 0035-9203 (doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.10.028)

Oluwole, Oluwafemi and Cheke, Robert A. (2009) Health and environmental impacts of pesticide use practices: a case study of farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 7 (3). pp. 153-163. ISSN 1473-5903 (Print), 1747-762X (Online) (doi:10.3763/ijas.2009.0431)

Cheke, Robert A., Meyer, Rolf R.F., Barro, Tele, Mas, Jordi, Sima, Anacleto Nsue, Abaga, Simon Ekwa, Noma, Mounkaila, Sékétéli, Azo V. and Wilson, Michael D. (2009) Towards the elimination of the Bioko form of Simulium yahense from Bioko: planning and insecticide trials. Acta Zoologica Lituanica, 19 (2). pp. 132-141. ISSN 1648-6919 (doi:10.2478/v10043-009-0013-8)

Cheke, Robert A. (2008) African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense new to Togo. Malimbus, 30 (2). pp. 168-169. ISSN 0331-3689

Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. (2008) Models for integrated pest control and their biological implications. Mathematical Biosciences, 215 (1). pp. 115-125. ISSN 0025-5564 (doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2008.06.008)

Cheke, Robert A., Fiasorgbor, G.K., Walsh, J.F. and Yaméogo, L. (2008) Elimination of the Djodji form of the blackfly Simulium sanctipauli sensu stricto as a result of larviciding by the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 22 (2). pp. 172-174. ISSN 0269-283X (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00725.x)

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. (2008) Multiple attractors of host-parasitoid models with integrated pest management strategies: eradication, persistence and outbreak. Theoretical Population Biology, 73 (2). pp. 181-197. ISSN 0040-5809 (doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2007.12.001)

Durrant, Kate L., Reed, Jennifer L., Jones, Peter J., Dallimer, Martin, Cheke, Robert A., McWilliam, Andrew N. and Fleischer, Robert C. (2007) Variation in haematozoan parasitism at local and landscape levels in the red-billed quelea Quelea quelea. Journal of Avian Biology, 38 (6). pp. 662-671. ISSN 0908-8857 (doi:10.1111/j.0908-8857.2007.04034.x)

Morales-Hojas, R., Cheke, Robert A. and Post, R.J. (2007) A preliminary analysis of the population genetics and molecular phylogenetics of Onchocerca volvulus (Nematoda: Filarioidea) using nuclear ribosomal second internal transcribed spacer sequences. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 102 (7). pp. 879-882. ISSN 0074-0276 (doi:10.1590/S0074-02762007005000114)

Jones, Peter J., Cheke, Robert A. and Bousfield, Nicky (2007) Flexibility in the timing of post-nuptial moult among Red-billed Queleas Quelea quelea in Botswana in relation to the timing of breeding. Ostrich - Journal of African Ornithology, 78 (3). pp. 555-559. ISSN 0030-6525 (doi:10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.3.1.312)

Cheke, Robert A. (2007) Thinking long term. Science, 318 (5850). pp. 577-578. ISSN 0036-8075 (doi:10.1126/science.1150636)

Cheke, Robert A., Venn, Jon F. and Jones, Peter J. (2007) Forecasting suitable breeding conditions for the red-billed quelea Quelea quelea in southern Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology, 44 (3). pp. 523-533. ISSN 0021-8901 (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01295.x)

Cheke, Robert A. and Tratalos, Jamie A. (2007) Migration, patchiness and population processes illustrated by two migrant pests. BiosScience, 57 (2). pp. 145-154. ISSN 0006-3568 (doi:10.1641/B570209)

Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. and Xiao, Yanni (2006) Optimal impulsive harvesting on non-autonomous Beverton-Holt difference equations. Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications , 65 (12). pp. 2311-2341. ISSN 0362-546X (doi:10.1016/j.na.2006.02.049)

Mustapha, M., McCall, P.J., Cheke, Robert A. and Post, R.J. (2006) The blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Bioko (Republic of Equatorial Guinea) and the Gulf of Guinea with a description of the larvae of the 'Pomeroy' form of Simulium cervicornutum. Systematic Entomology, 31 (4). pp. 611-620. ISSN 0307-6970 (doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00330.x)

Morales-Hojas, R., Cheke, Robert A. and Post, R.J. (2006) Molecular systematics of five Onchocerca species (Nematoda: Filarioidea) including the human parasite, O. volvulus, suggest sympatric speciation. Journal of Helminthology, 80 (3). pp. 281-290. ISSN 0022-149X (doi:10.1079/JOH2006331)

Iddi, K.N., Cheke, Robert A. and Kenyon, Lawrence (2006) Phylogenies of the sunbirds (Nectariniidae) and flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) based on analyses of vocalizations. Journal of Ornithology, 147 (Supplement 1). p. 185. ISSN 0021-8375 (Print) 1439-0361 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10336-006-0093-1)

Cheke, Robert A., Venn, Jon F. and Jones, Peter J. (2006) A spatio-temporal model for predicting when and where Red-billed Quelea will breed in southern Africa. Journal of Ornithology, 147 (Supplement 1). p. 147. ISSN 0021-8375 (Print) 1439-0361 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10336-006-0093-1)

Cheke, Robert A. (2006) Responding to early warnings. ID21 Insights, 61. p. 8. ISSN 1460-4205

Cheke, Robert A., Tirados, Iñaki, Mas, Jordi, Geenan, Petra, Adjaru, Jose Manuel Mba, Bouaha, Juan Luis Alfonso, Sima, Anacleto Nsue, Meyer, Rolf R.F. and Wilson, Michael D. (2006) Onchocerciasis transmission by the Bioko form of Simulium yahense Vajime & Dunbar 1975 (Diptera: Simuliidae). Studia dipterologica supplement, 14. pp. 26-30. ISSN 1433-4968 (doi:3-932795-23-7 )

Tratalos, Jamie A. and Cheke, Robert A. (2006) Can NDVI GAC imagery be used to monitor desert locust breeding areas? Journal of Arid Environments, 64 (2). pp. 342-356. ISSN 0140-1963 (doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.05.004)

Cheke, Robert A. and Mann, Clive (2006) The validity of the sunbird genus Hedydipna. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 126 (3). pp. 199-200. ISSN 0007-1595

Book Section

Cheke, Robert A. (2009) Editor's foreword. In: The Birds of Barbados: An annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist Series (24). British Ornithologists' Union / British Ornithologists' Club, Peterborough, UK, ix-x. ISBN 978-0907446293

Cheke, Robert A. (2008) Editor's foreword. In: The Birds of Borneo: An annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist Series (23). British Ornithologists' Union / British Ornithologists' Club, Peterborough, UK, vii-viii. ISBN 978-0907446286

Cheke, Robert A. and Mann, Clive (2008) Family Dicaeidae (Flowerpeckers). In: Handbook of the birds of the world: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 13 . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, pp. 350-367. ISBN 9788496553453

Cheke, Robert A. and Mann, Clive (2008) Family Nectariniidae (Sunbirds). In: Handbook of the birds of the world: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 13 . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 196-243. ISBN 9788496553453

Cheke, Robert A. (2006) Editor's foreward [foreword]. In: The Birds of São Tomé & Príncipe with Annobón islands of the Gulf of Guinea: An annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist Series (22). British Ornithologists' Union / British Ornithologists' Club, Oxford, UK, ix-ix. ISBN 978-0907446279

Cheke, Robert A., Getti, Giulia T., Poole, P., George, J. and Humber, D.P. (2006) Leishmania and its host cell: a complex relationship. In: ICOPA XI: proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Parasitology. Medimond SRL, Bologna, Italy, pp. 397-401. ISBN 8875872724

Conference or Workshop Item

Cheke, Robert A., Mullie, W.C. and Ibrahim, A.B. (2006) Synergy between bird predation and locust control with Metarhizium. In: ANCAP/SETAC International Conference on pesticide use in developing countries: environmental fate, effects and public health implications, 16-20 Oct 2006, Arusha, Tanzania. (Unpublished)