African Barred Owlet

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2008) African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense new to Togo. Malimbus, 30 (2). pp. 168-169. ISSN 0331-3689

Air pollution · Stochastic differential equation · Change point · Respiratory infection · Intervention measures

He, Sha, Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2018) Stochastic modelling of air pollution impacts on respiratory infection risk. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 80 (12). pp. 3127-3153. ISSN 0092-8240 (Print), 1522-9602 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-018-0512-5)

Backward bifurcation, Fitness effects, Augmentation order, Augmentation quantity, Augmentation times

Zhang, X, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2015) Models to assess how best to replace dengue virus vectors with Wolbachia-infected mosquito populations. Mathematical Biosciences, 269. pp. 164-177. ISSN 0025-5564 (Print), 1879-3134 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2015.09.004)

Barbados, ornithology, birds, checklist, British Ornithologists' Union

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2009) Editor's foreword. In: Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , (ed.) The Birds of Barbados: An annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist Series (24). British Ornithologists' Union / British Ornithologists' Club, Peterborough, UK, ix-x. ISBN 978-0907446293

Beverton-Holt equations, seasonal environments, discrete Euler-Lagrange equation, impulsive harvesting, maximum sustainable yield

Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2006.02.049)

Black Kite, Ghana, drop-catching, adaptive behaviour

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Black Kite drop-catching. British Birds, 107. p. 39. ISSN 0007-0335

Borneo, birds

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2008) Editor's foreword. The Birds of Borneo: An annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist Series (23). British Ornithologists' Union / British Ornithologists' Club, Peterborough, UK, vii-viii. ISBN 978-0907446286

British Ornithologists’ Union, Union Medal, Peter Jones

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2011) British Ornithologists’ Union: Union medal. Peter Jones. Ibis, 153 (2). pp. 438-439. ISSN 1474-919X (online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01113.x)

COVID-19 outbreak; effective reproduction number; prevention and control strategy

Xia, Fan, Xiao, Yanni, Liu, Peiyu, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Li, Xuanya (2020) Differences in how interventions coupled with effective reproduction numbers account for marked variations in COVID-19 epidemic outcomes. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 17 (5). pp. 5085-5098. ISSN 1547-1063 (Print), 1551-0018 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2020274)

COVID-19 outbreak; transmission model; hospital beds; effective reproduction number; sensitivity analysis

Zhou, Weike, Wang, Aili, Wang, Xia, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Xiao, Yanni and Tang, Sanyi (2020) Impact of hospital bed shortages on the containment of COVID-19 in Wuhan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (22):8560. ISSN 1661-7827 (Print), 1660-4601 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228560)

COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, competitive advantage, reproduction number

Xia, Fan, Yang, Xinpei, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Xiao, Yanni (2021) Quantifying competitive advantages of mutant strains in a population involving importation and mass vaccination rollout. Infectious Disease Modelling, 6. pp. 988-996. ISSN 2468-0427 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2021.08.001)

COVID-19, step-by-step NPI release strategy, city-based pattern, district-based pattern, optimal control

Wang, Hao, Li, Tangjuan, Gao, Huan, Huang, Chenxi, Tang, Biao, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Zhou, Weike (2023) Lessons drawn from Shanghai for controlling highly transmissible SARS‑CoV‑2 variants: insights from a modelling study. BMC Infectious Diseases, 23:331. ISSN 1471-2334 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08316-7)

COVID-19, stochastic discrete model, secondary outbreak, effective reproduction number, tracking quarantine measures

Yang, Jie, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2021) Impacts of varying strengths of intervention measures on secondary outbreaks of COVID-19 in two different regions. Nonlinear Dynamics, 104 (1). pp. 863-882. ISSN 0924-090X (Print), 1573-269X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-021-06294-6)

COVID-19; age-structured model; vaccination strategy; immunity waning

Wu, YuanYuan, Zhou, Weike, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Wang, Xia (2023) Prediction of the next major outbreak of COVID-19 in Mainland China and a vaccination strategy for it. Royal Society Open Science, 10:230655. pp. 1-14. ISSN 2054-5703 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230655)

COVID-19; home quarantine; centralized quarantine; within-family transmission

Wang, H, Zhu, D, Li, S, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Tang, S and Zhou, W (2022) Home quarantine or centralized quarantine? A mathematical modelling study on the COVID-19 epidemic in Guangzhou in 2021. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 19 (9). pp. 9060-9070. ISSN 1547-1063 (Print), 1551-0018 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2022421)

COVID-19; non-pharmaceutical interventions; mathematical model; epidemic waves; mitigation; China

Tang, Sanyi, Wang, Xia, Tang, Biao, He, Sha, Huang, Chenxi, Shao, Yiming, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Threshold conditions for curbing COVID‑19 with a dynamic zero‑case policy derived from 101 outbreaks in China. BMC Public Health, 23:1084. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1471-2458 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16009-8)

Cameroon, conservation status, Grey Parrot, Psittacus erithacus, population size

Tamungang, Simon A., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Kougoum, Ghislain P. and Ntiri, Eric S. (2013) Linking population size to conservation needs of the Grey Parrot in Cameroon. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, 5 (8). pp. 478-485. ISSN 2141-243X (Print), 2141-243X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.5897/IJBC2013.0569)

Culex modestus, United Kingdom, West Nile virus, Usutu virus, Culicidae, Mosquito, Surveillance

Vaux, A.G.C., Gibson, Gabriella, Hernandez-Triana, L.M., Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , McCracken, F., Jeffries, C.L., Horton, D.L., Springate, Simon, Johnson, N., Fooks, A.R., Leach, S. and Medlock, J.M. (2015) Enhanced West Nile virus surveillance in the North Kent marshes, UK. Parasites & Vectors, 8 (91). ISSN 1756-3305 (Print), 1756-3305 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0705-9)

Dengue fever, Wolbachia, cytoplasmic incompatibility, birth-pulse, strong and weak density dependent death rates

Zhang, Xianghong, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2015) Birth-pulse models of Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes for dengue virus control. Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 22. pp. 236-258. ISSN 1468-1218 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nonrwa.2014.09.004)

Dengue fever; Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes; Bifurcation; Mosquito augmentation

Zhang, Xianghong, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Zhu, Huaiping (2016) Modeling the effects of augmentation strategies on the control of Dengue fever with an impulsive differential equation. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 78 (10). pp. 1968-2010. ISSN 0092-8240 (Print), 1522-9602 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-016-0208-7)

Dengue fever; population replacement; ergodicity; Lyapunov function

Yang, Jin, Chen, Zhou, Tan, Yuanshan, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Threshold dynamics of a stochastic mathematical model for Wolbachia infections. Journal of Biological Dynamics, 17 (1):2231967. pp. 1-16. ISSN 1751-3758 (Print), 1751-3766 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17513758.2023.2231967)

Dengue, Aedes, Precipitation, Temperature, Multi-scale model, Short-term forecast, Effective reproduction number

Wang, Xia, Tang, Sanyi, Wu, Jianhong, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) A combination of climatic conditions determines major within-season dengue outbreaks in Guangdong Province, China. Parasites & Vectors, 12 (45). ISSN 1756-3305 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3295-0)

Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål 1775); Oriental Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria manilensis (Meyen 1835); spectral analysis; Kalman filter; spectral coherence; convergence cross mapping; sunspot groups; ENSO; SOI; IOD; NAO

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Young, Stephen, Wang, Xia, Tratalos, Jamie A., Tang, Sanyi and Cressman, Keith (2020) Evidence for a causal relationship between the solar cycle and locust abundance. Agronomy, 11 (1):69. pp. 1-22. ISSN 2073-4395 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11010069)

Desert Locust; Biocontrol; Metarhizium acridum; avian predation

Mullié, Wim C., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Young, Stephen, Ibrahim, Abdou Baoua and Murk, Albertinka J. (2021) Increased and sex-selective avian predation of desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria treated with Metarhizium acridum. PLoS ONE, 16 (1):e0244733. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1932-6203 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244733)

Diabetes, Glucose-insulin system, Glucose infusion, Insulin injection, Critical glucose threshold

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) The regulatory system for diabetes mellitus: Modeling rates of glucose infusions and insulin injections. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 37. pp. 305-325. ISSN 1007-5704 (Print), 1878-7274 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2016.02.001)

Discrete model; Pest resistance; Pesticide switching; Pesticide application period; Threshold condition; Dynamic complexity

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) Beverton-Holt discrete pest management models with pulsed chemical control and evolution of pesticide resistance. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 36. pp. 327-341. ISSN 1007-5704 (Print), 1878-7274 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2015.12.014)

Discrete switching system; Stable switching transient; Phase change; Random perturbation; Bistability

Xiang, Changcheng, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Qin, Wenjie (2016) A locust phase change model with multiple switching states and random perturbation. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (ijbc), 26 (13):1630037. pp. 1-17. ISSN 0218-1274 (Print), 1793-6551 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127416300378)

Ecological paradox, Ricker equation, Apolygus lucorum, pest control, complex dynamics, stability

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Xiang, Changcheng, Xiao, Yanni, Wang, Xia, Wu, Jianhong, Li, Guoping and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) A general model of hormesis in biological systems and its application to pest management. Journal of the Royal Society - Interface, 16 (157):20190468. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1742-5689 (Print), 1742-5662 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0468)

Effective reproductive number, Intervention timing, COVID-19, Lockdown

Xiao, Yanni, Tang, Biao, Wu, Jianhong, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Tang, Sanyi (2020) Linking key intervention timing to rapid decline of the COVID-19 effective reproductive number to quantify lessons from mainland China. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 97. pp. 296-298. ISSN 1201-9712 (Print), 1878-3511 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.030)

Environmental variables; Cluster analysis; PCA; CCA; Simulium damnosum complex

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Young, Stephen and Garms, Rolf (2016) Ecological characteristics of Simulium breeding sites in West Africa. Acta Tropica, 167. pp. 148-156. ISSN 0001-706X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.12.022)

Filippov system, Refuge, Limit cycle, Canard cycle, Sliding bifurcation

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2013) Global stability and sliding bifurcations of a non-smooth Gause predator–prey system. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 224. pp. 9-20. ISSN 0096-3003 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2013.08.024)

Filippov system, stage structure, sliding bifurcation, sliding homoclinic orbit,economic threshold, pest control

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1137/110847020)

Flowerpeckers

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Mann, Clive (2008) Family Dicaeidae (Flowerpeckers). In: del Hoyo, Josep, Elliot, Andrew and Christie, David A., (eds.) Handbook of the birds of the world: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, pp. 350-367. ISBN 9788496553453

Ghana, Onchocerciasis, Simulium damnosum, Simulium sirbanum, Simulium squamosum, Simulium yahense, Simulium sanctipauli, Simulium soubrense, Cytospecies distribution, Stability, Change

Post, Rory J., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Boakye, Daniel A., Wilson, Michael D., Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y., Tetteh-Kumah, Anthony, Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Crainey, J. Lee, Yameogo, Laurent and Basanez, María-Gloria (2013) Stability and change in the distribution of cytospecies of the Simulium damnosum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in southern Ghana from 1971 to 2011. Parasites & Vectors, 6 (205). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1756-3305 (Print), 1756-3305 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-205)

Grey Parrot, conservation, threats, geographical range, Cameroon

Tamungang, Simon A., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Mofor, Gilbert Z., Tamungang, Richard N. and Oben, Fritz T. (2014) Conservation concern for the deteriorating geographical range of the Grey Parrot in Cameroon. International Journal of Ecology, 2014:753294. ISSN 1687-9708 (Print), 1687-9716 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/753294)

HFMD, contaminated environment, indirect transmission, uniform persistence

Wang, Jinyan, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) Modelling the effects of contaminated environments on HFMD infections in mainland China. BioSystems, 140. pp. 1-7. ISSN 0303-2647 (Print), 1872-8324 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.12.001)

Haematophagous blackflies; traps; Simulium equinum; Simulium lineatum; Simulium ornatum; sweet itch

López-Peña, D., Hawkes, F. M. ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-3702 , Gibson, G. I., Johnston, C., Vaux, A. G. C., Lis-Cantín, Á., Medlock, J. M. and Cheke, R. A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2021) Mosquito Magnet® traps as a potential means of monitoring blackflies of medical and veterinary importance. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 35 (4). pp. 646-651. ISSN 0269-283X (Print), 1365-2915 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12530)

Hedydipna, sunbirds

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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

Holling type II predator-prey model, nonlinear pulse, threshold, complex dynamics, resource limitation, pest-free periodic solution, natural enemies

Qin, Wenjie, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) The effects of resource limitation on a predator-prey model with control measures as nonlinear pulses. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014:450935. ISSN 1024-123X (Print), 1563-5147 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/450935)

Human blood index; Host choice, Simulium damnosum (sensu lato); Host-seeking vectors; Ovipositing vectors; Onchocerca volvulus; Vector abundance

Lamberton, Poppy H. L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Walker, Martin, Winskill, Peter, Crainey, J. Lee, Boakye, Daniel A., Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y., Tirados, Iñaki, Wilson, Michael D., Tetteh-Kumah, Anthony, Otoo, Sampson, Post, Rory J. and Basañez, María-Gloria (2016) Onchocerciasis transmission in Ghana: the human blood index of sibling species of the Simulium damnosum complex. Parasites & Vectors, 9 (1). ISSN 1756-3305 (Print), 1756-3305 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1703-2)

IPM, nonlinear control action, pest free periodic solution, switch-like transition, random perturbation.

Tian, Yuan, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) Dynamic complexity of a predator-prey model for IPM with nonlinear impulsive control incorporating a regulatory factor for predator releases. Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, 24 (1). pp. 134-154. ISSN 1392-6292 (Print), 1648-3510 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3846/mma.2019.010)

IPM, pest resistance, biological control, inoculative releases, dynamic threshold

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Wu, Jianhong (2014) Models for determining how many natural enemies to release inoculatively in combinations of biological and chemical control with pesticide resistance. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 422 (2). pp. 1479-1503. ISSN 0022-247X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.09.048)

IPM, pest resistance, frequency of pesticide applications, biological control, dynamic threshold, cumulative number of deaths

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Wu, Jianhong (2013) Adaptive release of natural enemies in a pest-natural enemy system with pesticide resistance. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 75 (11). pp. 2167-2195. ISSN 0092-8240 (Print), 1522-9602 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-013-9886-6)

IPM; Dispersal; Spatial heterogeneity; Cluster oscillation; Duality; Chaos.

Yuan, Baoyin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2015) Duality in phase space and complex dynamics of an integrated pest management network model. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (ijbc), 25 (8):1550103. pp. 1-17. ISSN 0218-1274 (Print), 1793-6551 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127415501035)

IPM; resistance; host-parasitoid model; biological control; dynamic threshold

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2018) A discrete host-parasitoid model with development of pesticide resistance and IPM strategies. Journal of Biological Dynamics, 12 (1). pp. 1059-1078. ISSN 1751-3758 (Print), 1751-3766 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17513758.2018.1556351)

Leishmania

Cheke, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Getti, G. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-1402-8496 , Poole, P., George, J. and Humber, D. P. (2006) Leishmania and its host cell: a complex relationship. ICOPA XI: proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Parasitology. Medimond SRL, Bologna, Italy, pp. 397-401. ISBN 8875872724

Leishmania aethiopica, L. tropica, L. major, cicerfuran, benzofurans, THP-1 cells, antileishmanial activity

Getti, G. T. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-1402-8496 , Aslam, S.N., Humber, D.P., Stevenson, P. C. ORCID: 0000-0002-0736-3619 and Cheke, R. A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2006) The effect of Cicerfuran, an Arylbenzofuran from Cicer bijugum, and related Benzofurans and Stilbenes on Leishmania aethiopica, L. tropica and L. major. Planta Medica, 72 (10). pp. 907-911. ISSN 0032-0943 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2006-947187)

Leishmania, THP-1, U937, infection, apoptosis

Getti, G. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-1402-8496 , Cheke, R. A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Humber, D. P. (2008) Induction of apoptosis in host cells: a survival mechanism for Leishmania parasites? Parasitology, 135 (12). pp. 1391-1399. ISSN 0031-1820 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182008004915)

Leishmania, sand fly, stomodeal valve, promastigote, secretory gel, parasite plug

Hall, Martin J. R., Ghosh, Debashi, Martin-Vega, Daniel, Clark, Brett, Clatworthy, Innes, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Rogers, Matthew E. (2021) Micro-CT visualization of a promastigote secretory gel (PSG) and parasite plug in the digestive tract of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis infected with Leishmania mexicana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15 (8):e0009682. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1935-2735 (Print), 1935-2727 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009682)

Nicholson-Bailey model, IPM, economic threshold, impulsive difference equations, coexistence, host outbreak

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2007.12.001)

Non-overlapping generation; Multiple pesticide applications; Paradox; Cumulative effect; Beverton–Holt model

Wang, Xia, Xu, Zihui, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2017) Cumulative effects of incorrect use of pesticides can lead to catastrophic outbreaks of pests. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 100. pp. 7-19. ISSN 0960-0779 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2017.04.030)

Nonlinear control · Poincarémap · Order-1 periodic solution · Global stability · Pest control

Tian, Yuan, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2018) Nonlinear state-dependent feedback control of a pest-natural enemy system. Nonlinear Dynamics. ISSN 0924-090X (Print), 1573-269X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-018-4487-4)

Nonlinear impulsive; Threshold condition; Bifurcation; Nontrivial periodic solution; Chaos

Li, Changtong, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2020) Complex dynamics and coexistence of period-doubling and period-halving bifurcations in an integrated pest management model with nonlinear impulsive control. Advances in Difference Equations:514. pp. 1-23. ISSN 1687-1839 (Print), 1687-1847 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-02971-9)

Onchocerca volvulus, Simulium spp. vectors, Wolbachia, diagnosis, pathology, treatment, vector control, history

Brattig, Norbert W., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Garms, Rolf (2020) Onchocerciasis (river blindness) – more than a century of research and control. Acta Tropica, 218:105677. pp. 1-22. ISSN 0001-706X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105677)

Onchocerca volvulus, onchocerciasis, strains, molecular phylogenetics, population differentiation

Morales-Hojas, R., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762007005000114)

Onchocerca volvulus; Simulium damnosum complex; Vector biology; Ivermectin; Doxycycline; Moxidectin

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2017) Factors affecting onchocerciasis transmission: Lessons for infection control. Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 15 (4). pp. 377-386. ISSN 1478-7210 (Print), 1744-8336 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14787210.2017.1286980)

Onchocerciasis vectors; Simulium damnosum complex; transmission; dispersal; parous rates

Walsh, J. Frank, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Young, Stephen (2023) A field investigation of short-range dispersal by female Simulium damnosum s.l. Acta Tropica, 240:106863. pp. 1-6. ISSN 0001-706X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.106863)

Onchocerciasis, Geo-statistics, Bayesian, Map, Validation

O'Hanlon, Simon J., Slater, Hannah C., Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Boatin, Boakye A., Coffeng, Luc E., Pion, Sebastian D.S., Boussinesq, Michel, Zoure, Honorat G.M., Stolk, Wilma A. and Basanez, Maria-Gloria (2016) Model-based geostatistical mapping of the prevalence of onchocerca volvulus in West Africa. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases:10(1): e0004. ISSN 1935-2727 (Print), 1935-2735 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004328)

Onchocerciasis, Ivermectin, Treatment, Biannual, Sub-optimal responses

Frempong, Kwadwo K., Walker, Martin, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Tetevi, Edward J., Gyan, Ernest T., Owusu, Ebenezer O., Wilson, Michael D., Boakye, Daniel A., Taylor, Mark J., Biritwum, Nana-Kwadwo, Osei-Atweneboana, Mike and Basanez, Maria-Gloria (2016) Does increasing treatment frequency address sub-optimal responses to ivermectin for the control and elimination of river blindness? Clinical Infectious Diseases, 62 (11). pp. 1338-1347. ISSN 1058-4838 (Print), 1537-6591 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw144)

Onchocerciasis, Onchocerca volvulus, Simulium damnosum complex, transmission, parasite loads, forest, savanna, blindness, West Africa

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Garms, Rolf (2012) 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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.09.002)

Onchocerciasis, Onchocerca volvulus, transmission, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, Simulium yahense

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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)

Onchocerciasis, Vector control, Vector ecology, Mathematical modelling, Population dynamics, Alternative treatment strategy, Elimination, Simulium damnosum (s.l.), Africa

Routledge, Isobel, Walker, Martin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Bhatt, Samir, Nkot, Pierre Baleguel, Matthews, Grahsm A., Baleguel, Didier, Dobson, Hans M., Wiles, Terry L. and Basañez, Maria-Gloria (2018) Modelling the impact of larviciding on the population dynamics and biting rates of Simulium damnosum (s.l.): implications for vector control as a complementary strategy for onchocerciasis elimination in Africa. Parasites & Vectors, 11:316. ISSN 1756-3305 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2864-y)

Onchocerciasis; Onchocerca volvulus; Savannah strain; Forest strain; Blindness prevalence; Microfilarial prevalence; Simulium damnosum s.l.; Annual transmission potential; West Africa

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Little, Kirsty E., Young, Stephen, Walker, Martin and Basáñez, Maria-Gloria (2021) Taking the strain out of onchocerciasis? A reanalysis of blindness and transmission data does not support the existence of a savannah blinding strain of onchocerciasis in West Africa. Advances in Parasitology, 111. ISSN 0065-308X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.apar.2021.01.002)

Onchocerciasis; Transmission; Simulium damnosum; Subling species; Ghana

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Winskill, Peter, Tirados, Iñaki, Walker, Martin, Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y., Biritwum, Nana-Kwadwo, Tetteh-Kumah, Anthony, Boakye, Daniel A., Wilson, Michael D., Post, Rory J. and Basañez, María-Gloria (2015) Onchocerciasis transmission in Ghana: Persistence under different control strategies and the role of the simuliid vectors. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9 (4):e0003688. pp. 1-27. ISSN 1935-2727 (Print), 1935-2735 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

Pandemic, COVID-19, Model, Runs on medical resources, Inter-country comparisons, Prediction, Epidemiology

Wang, Xia, Li, Qian, He, Sha, Fan, Xia, Song, Pengfei, Shao, Yiming, Wu, Jianhong, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Tang, Sanyi and Xiao, Yanni (2021) Effects of medical resource capacities and intensities of public mitigation measures on outcomes of COVID-19 outbreaks. BMC Public Health, 21:605. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1471-2458 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10657-4)

Parrot trade; Grey parrot; Psittacus erithacus; conservation implications; wildlife, Cameroon

Tamungang, Simon A., Ofeh, Moses A., Tchamba, Martin N., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Kougoum, Ghislane P. (2016) Challenges and conservation implications of the parrot trade in Cameroon. International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 10 (3). pp. 1210-1234. ISSN 1991-8631 (Print), 1997-342X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.4314/ijbcs.v10i3.26)

Pesticide switches, Dynamic threshold, Pesticide application frequency, Evolution, Pulse spraying

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi, Nieto, Juan J. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2013) Analytical methods for detecting pesticide switches with evolution of pesticide resistance. Mathematical Biosciences, 245 (2). pp. 249-257. ISSN 0025-5564 (Print), 1879-3134 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2013.07.008)

Pests, Bt-Cotton, Genetic modification, pesticide

Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2018) New pests for old as GMOs bring on substitute pests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115:33. pp. 8239-8240. ISSN 0027-8424 (Print), 1091-6490 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811261115)

Predator–prey system, Refuge, Interval number, Equilibrium, Stability, Optimal harvesting policy

Wang, Qinglong, Liu, Zhijun, Zhang, Zingan and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2017) Incorporating prey refuge into a predator–prey system with imprecise parameter estimates. Computational & Applied Mathematics, 36 (2). pp. 1067-1084. ISSN 0101-8205 (Print), 1807-0302 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-015-0282-8)

Prostate cancer, Stochastic dynamical model, Threshold dynamics, Stationary distribution

Chen, Lin, Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2021) Threshold dynamics of a stochastic model of intermittent androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 100:105856. ISSN 1007-5704 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.105856)

Red-billed Quelea, crop pests

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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 (Sup 1). p. 147. ISSN 0021-8375 (Print), 1439-0361 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-006-0093-1)

Rolf Garms; obituary; Simulium; onchocerciasis

Brattig, Norbert, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Davies, John B., Lühken, Renke and Krüger, Andreas (2022) Obituary - Professor Rolf Garms 1931 - 2021. Parasitology Research. ISSN 0932-0113 (Print), 1432-1955 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-022-07482-y)

SIR model, Disease free periodic solution, Control reproduction number, Poincare map, Transcritical and pitchfork bifurcations, Backward bifurcation

Cheng, Tianyu, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) Threshold dynamics and bifurcation of a state-dependent feedback nonlinear control SIR model. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 14 (7). ISSN 1555-1415 (Print), 1555-1423 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4043001)

SIR model; media coverage; nonlinear pulse; Bifurcations; Poincaré map

Yang, JIn, Guan, Likun, Chen, Zhou, Tan, Yuanshun, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Bifurcation analysis of a nonlinear pulse SIR model with media coverage. Nonlinear Dynamics. ISSN 0924-090X (Print), 1573-269X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-023-08869-x)

Schistocerca gregaria, time series, population dynamics, endogenous, rainfall

Tratalos, Jamie A., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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:https://doi.org/10.3354/cr00930)

Simuliidae; environmental variables; multivariate analysis; medical and veterinary importance; England

Lopez-Pena, David, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Garcia-Roger, Eduardo Moisés and Jimenez-Peydro, Jiménez-Peydró (2021) Ecological characteristics of pre-imaginal stages of blackflies (diptera: simuliidae) in Southern England. Aquatic Insects. pp. 1-18. ISSN 0165-0424 (Print), 1744-4152 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/01650424.2021.1974486)

Simulium damnosum s.l, S. damnosum s.s, S. sirbanum, S. squamosum form C, S. squamosum form E, Beffa form of S. soubrense, S. yahense, S. sanctipauli, biting rate, parous rate, host-seeking behaviour

Lamberton, Poppy H. L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Walker, Martin, Winskill, Peter, Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y., Tirados, Iñaki, Tetteh-Kumah, Anthony, Boakye, Daniel A., Wilson, Michael D., Post, Rory J. and Basáñez, María-Gloria (2014) Onchocerciasis transmission in Ghana: biting and parous rates of host-seeking sibling species of the Simulium damnosum complex. Parasites & Vectors, 7 (1):511. ISSN 1756-3305 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0511-9)

Simulium damnosum, Biting rates, Granger test, Parity rates, Time series

Cheke, R. A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Young, S. and Garms, R. (2016) Inverse density dependence of parity rates in the onchocerciasis vector Simulium damnosum s.l. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 30 (1). pp. 85-88. ISSN 0269-283X (Print), 1365-2915 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12145)

Simulium damnosum, climate change, control, development rates, onchocerciasis, temperature

Cheke, R.A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2012) The thermal constant of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium damnosum s.l. in West Africa. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 26 (2). pp. 236-238. ISSN 1365-2915 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2011.00980.x)

Simulium sanctipauli, control, Djodji form, elimination, larviciding, onchocerciasis

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00725.x)

Stochastic tumour-immune model, Pulsed therapy, Extinction and persistence, Lyapunov function

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) Thresholds for extinction and proliferation in a stochastic tumour-immune model with pulsed comprehensive therapy. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 73. pp. 363-378. ISSN 1007-5704 (Print), 1878-7274 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.02.025)

Stochastic tumour-immune system, Chemotherapeutic dose response, Eradication and persistence, Lyapunov function

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) Modelling effects of a chemotherapeutic dose response on a stochastic tumour-immune model. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 123. pp. 1-13. ISSN 0960-0779 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2019.03.029)

Sunbird; Fledgling; Juvenile plumage behaviour

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Barlow, Clive R. and Mann, Clive F. (2019) Nesting by dark-bibbed female Beautiful Long-tailed Sunbirds Cinnyris pulchellus and occurrence of dark both sexes of Beautiful Long-tailed and Gorgeous Sunbirds C. melanogastrus. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 139 (4). pp. 328-332. ISSN 0007-1595 (Print), 2513-9894 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v139i4.2019.a5)

Sunbird; Spiderhunter; nest

Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Ornithological Controversies Series: Is the Purple-naped Sunbird really a Spiderhunter? Malaysian Bird Report, 2/2023. pp. 51-52. (doi:https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18907.75045)

Sunbirds

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Mann, Clive (2008) Family Nectariniidae (Sunbirds). In: del Hoyo, Josep, Elliot, Andrew and Christie, David A., (eds.) Handbook of the birds of the world: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 196-243. ISBN 9788496553453

São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón, Gulf of Guinea, birds

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2006) Editor's foreward [foreword]. 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

Togo; Benin; onchocerciasis; Simulium damnosum; Simulium sirbanum; Simulium squamosum; Simulium yahense; Simulium sanctipauli; Simulium soubrense; cytospecies distribution; stability; change

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Post, Rory J. and Boakye, Daniel A. (2023) Seasonal variations and other changes in the geographical distributions of different cytospecies of the Simulium damnosum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Togo and Benin. Acta Tropica, 245:106970. pp. 1-8. ISSN 0001-706X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.106970)

Tumour cell, immunotherapy, Poincare map, state-dependent feedback control, order-k periodic solution

Tang, Biao, Xiao, Yanni, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) A feedback control model of immunogenic tumours with comprehensive therapy. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 26 (3):1650039. pp. 1-22. ISSN 0218-1274 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127416500395)

Tumour-immune model; Drug response; Poincare map; Bifurcation

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshan and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2020) Complexities and bifurcations induced by drug responses in a pulsed tumour-immune model. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (ijbc), 30 (7):2050104. ISSN 0218-1274 (Print), 1793-6551 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127420501047)

Tumour-immune model; nonlinear feedback control; Poincare map; bifurcations.

Guan, Likud, Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2022) Bifurcation analysis of a tumour-immune model with nonlinear killing rate as state-dependent feedback control. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 32 (10):2250155. pp. 1-19. ISSN 0218-1274 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127422501553)

Vector-borne disease; Intervention; Climate factors; Breteau index; Mathematical modeling

Wang, Xia, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) A stage structured mosquito model incorporating effects of precipitation and daily temperature fluctuations. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 411. pp. 27-36. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.09.015)

Violet-tailed sunbird, cooperative breeding

King, Tony and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2009) Cooperative breeding in the Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantium. Malimbus, 31 (1). pp. 20-27. ISSN 0331-3689

WNV; Filippov model; Threshold policy; Global dynamics

Zhou, Weike, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) A threshold policy to interrupt transmission of West Nile Virus to birds. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 40 (19-20). pp. 8794-8809. ISSN 0307-904X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2016.05.040)

West Nile Virus, Culex modestus, mosquitoes, Kent

Medlock, Jolyon M., Vaux, Alexander G.C., Gibson, Gabriella, Hawkes, Frances ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-3702 and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Potential vector for West Nile virus prevalent in Kent. Veterinary Record, 175 (11). pp. 284-285. ISSN 0042-4900 (Print), 2042-7670 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.g5679)

West Nile Virus, impulsive differential equation, backward bifurcation, partial rank correlation coefficient, control measures

Xu, Xiaxia, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2015) Models of impulsive culling of mosquitoes to interrupt transmission of West Nile Virus to birds. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 39 (13). pp. 3549-3568. ISSN 0307-904X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2014.10.072)

Wolbachia dengue fever Aedes mosquitoes

Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) Analyses of density-dependent effects are needed to understand how and when Wolbachia can control dengue vectors. BMC Biology, 14 (99). ISSN 1741-7007 (Print), 1741-7007 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-016-0328-4)

Wolbachia, Dengue disease, Mosquito augmentation, Backward bifurcation

Zhang, Xianghong, Tang, Sanyi, Liu, Qiyong, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Zhu, Huaiping (2018) Models to assess the effects of non-identical sex ratio augmentations of Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes on the control of dengue disease. Mathematical Biosciences, 299. pp. 58-72. ISSN 0025-5564 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2018.03.003)

Wolbachia, Wolbachia phages, Serine recombinase, SpvB protein homolog, Simulium squamosum E, Onchocerciasis

Crainey, James L., Hurst, Jacob, Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Griffin, Claire E., Wilson, Michael D., De Araújo, Cláudia P. Mendes, Basáñez, María-Gloria and Post, Rory J. (2017) The genomic architecture of novel Simulium damnosum Wolbachia prophage sequence elements and implications for onchocerciasis epidemiology. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8:852. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1664-302X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00852)

abundance; agro-ecological zone; common bean; Ootheca spp.; damage

Halerimana, Charles, Kayamanywa, Samuel, Olaboro, Samuel, Paparu, Pamela, Nakalubo, Stanley T., Colvin, John, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Wagner, Thomas, Seal, Susan ORCID: 0000-0002-3952-1562 , Kriticos, Darren J. and Otim, Michael H. (2021) Distribution and relative abundance of bean leaf beetles (Ootheca spp.) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Uganda. Insects (Special Issue Parasite-Insect Interactions), 12 (11):1048. pp. 1-12. ISSN 2075-4450 (Print), 2075-4450 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12111048)

adaptive-decision model; critical coverage rate; influenza-like illness (ILI); SIRV; vaccination

Yan, Quinling, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Tang, Sanyi (2022) Coupling an individual adaptive-decision model with a SIRV model of influenza vaccination reveals new insights for epidemic control. Statistics in Medicine, 42 (5). pp. 716-729. ISSN 0277-6715 (Print), 1097-0258 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.9639)

age-structured model; limited medical resources; global stability; Lyapunov function

Yang, Jin, Chen, Zhou, Tan, Yuanshan, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Threshold dynamics of an age-structured infectious disease model with limited medical resources. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 214. pp. 114-132. ISSN 0378-4754 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2023.07.003)

agriculture, CAAPD, early warning systems, fertilisers, food aid, food security, green revolution, NEPAD, nutrition

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2006) Responding to early warnings. ID21 Insights, 61. p. 8. ISSN 1460-4205

agriculture, environment, health, Nigeria, pesticides, safety

Oluwole, Oluwafemi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.3763/ijas.2009.0431)

air pollution; respiratory disease; optimal control; stochastic model; data validation

He, Sha, Tang, Sanyi, Zhang, Qimin, Rong, Libin and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Modelling optimal control of air pollution to reduce respiratory diseases. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 458:128223. ISSN 0096-3003 (Print), 1873-5649 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2023.128223)

armyworm, attractor, bifurcation, Holling’s disc equation, locust, polyphenism, predation, Schistocerca gregaria, Spodoptera exempta,time-lags.

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Tang, Sanyi and Tratalos, Jamie A. (2014) Predator–prey population models of migrant insects with phase change. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71 (8). pp. 2221-2230. ISSN 1054-3139 (Print), 1095-9289 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst150)

avian malaria parasites, plumage coloration, blood parasites, house finches, prevalence, infection, africa, host, immunocompetence, carotenoids

Durrant, Kate L., Reed, Jennifer L., Jones, Peter J., Dallimer, Martin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0908-8857.2007.04034.x)

avicide, environmentally friendly pest control, non-target species, organophosphate pesticides, Quelea quelea, small-scale farmers, Tanzania

Elliott, Clive C.H., Mtobesya, Boaz N. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Alternative approaches to Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea management: mass-capture for food. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 85 (1). pp. 31-37. ISSN 0030-6525 (Print), 1727-947X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2014.900827)

bird pest control, fenthion, red-billed Quelea, Acetylcholinesterase, Butyrylcholinesterase, haemoglobin, non-target birds and reptiles, Africa

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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 (Print), 1573-3017 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-012-0911-6)

bird pest control, forecast, migration, model, quelea, rainfall, satellite

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01295.x)

bird pest, Red-billed Quelea, migration

Borello, Wendy D. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2011) Fidelity to non-breeding grounds by migrant Red-billed Quelea quelea lathami in Botswana. The Babbler (Journal of Birdlife Botswana), 56. pp. 11-14. (doi:http://www.researchgate.net/publication/235343855_Fidelity_to_non-breeding_grounds_by_migrant_Red-billed_Quelea_Quelea_quelea_lathamii_in_Botswana)

bird predation, locust control, Metarhizium

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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)

bird species; ploughing operations; harvesting operations

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2016) Red Kites and Common Buzzard following the hay harvest. British Birds, 109. pp. 300-302. ISSN 0007-0335

birds, Sahel, habitats, environmental change

Atkinson, Philip W., Adams, William M., Brouwer, Joost, Buchanan, Graham, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Cresswell, Will, Hewson, Chris M., Hulme, Mark F., Manvell, Adam, Sheehan, Danae K., Small, Robert D.S., Sutherland, William J. and Vickery, Juliet A. (2014) Defining the key wintering habitats in the Sahel for declining African-Eurasian migrants using expert assessment. Bird Conservation International, 24 (4). pp. 477-491. ISSN 0959-2709 (Print), 1474-0001 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270913000531)

birds, Togo

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Oliveras, Ignasi (2014) Miscellaneous records of birds in Togo, including four species new to the country’s list. Malimbus, 36 (1). pp. 58-60. ISSN 0331-3689

blackflies, chromosomes,cytogenetics, mansonellosis, molecular genetics, onchocerciasis, Onchocerca volvulus, sibling species, Simulium damnosum complex, vector-borne disease

Adler, Peter H., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2010.07.003)

blackflies, surveillance, onchocerciasis, elimination, Cameroon, host decoy trap

Talom, Blaise Armand Defo, Enyong, Peter, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Djouaka, Rousseau and Hawkes, Frances M. ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-3702 (2021) Capture of high numbers of simulium vectors can be achieved with host decoy traps to support data acquisition in the onchocerciasis elimination endgame. Acta Tropica, 221:106020. ISSN 0001-706X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106020)

blackflies; Simulium; river blindness; onchocerciasis; migration; dispersal; flight distance

Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Hawkes, Frances ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-3702 and Carnaghi, Manuela ORCID: 0000-0003-4595-082X (2024) Short- and long-range dispersal by members of the Simulium damnosum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae), vectors of onchocerciasis: a review. Insects, 15 (8):606. pp. 1-13. ISSN 2075-4450 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15080606)

blackflies; parasites; predators; UK

López-Peña, David and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of the United Kingdom with comments on species of public health and veterinary importance, their parasites and predators. The Simuliid Bulletin, 60. pp. 18-51. ISSN 2397-5067 (Print), 2397-5075 (Online)

brown locust, Locustana pardalina, egg development, synthetic aperture radar, soil moisture, surface roughness, vegetation, water cloud model, integral equation model

Crooks, William T.S. and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Soil moisture assessments for brown locust Locustana pardalina breeding potential using synthetic aperture radar. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS), 8 (1):084898. ISSN 1931-3195 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.8.084898)

cameroon volcanic line, Drosophila-santomea, damnosum, islands, onchocerciasis, evolution, biodiversity, divergence, complexes, forest

Mustapha, M., McCall, P.J., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00330.x)

cancer model; pulsed therapy; extinction and permanence; stationary distribution

Chen, Lin, Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshan, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2022) Stationary distribution and persistence of a stochastic mathematical model for prostate cancer with pulsed therapy. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 114. pp. 162-188. ISSN 0307-904X (Print), 1872-8480 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2022.10.007)

cancer, immunotherapy, periodic solution, combined therapy

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Modelling pulsed immunotherapy of tumour-immune interaction. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 109. pp. 92-112. ISSN 0378-4754 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2014.09.001)

cancer, immunotherapy, periodic solution, combined therapy, threshold

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2015) Modelling pulsed immunotherapy of tumour–immune interaction. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 109. pp. 92-112. ISSN 0378-4754 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2014.09.001)

cholinesterases, explosions, non-target organisms, organophosphate sprays, Quelea quelea L., red-billed quelea, residues

Cheke, R.A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Van der Walt, E., Mbereki, C., Mtobesya, B.N., Magoma, R.N., Farman, D.I. ORCID: 0000-0003-3579-3672 , Adranyi, E. and McWilliam, A. (2011) Environmental impacts of the control with organophosphate pesticides and explosions of the red-billed quelea bird Quelea quelea in Africa. In: Jacob, Jens and Esther, Alexandra, (eds.) 8th European Verteb8th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference, Berlin, Germany, 26-30 September 2011- Book of Abstracts. Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen, Quedlinburg, Germany, pp. 130-131. ISBN 978-3-930037-82-7 (doi:https://doi.org/10.5073/jka.2011.432.072)

climate adaptation strategies, climate change, dynamic species management, extreme weather events, near-term forecasting, Quelea quelea, red-billed quelea, seasonal forecasting, species distribution modelling

Dobson, Rachel, Willis, Stephen G., Jennings, Stewart, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Challinor, Andrew J. and Dallimer, Martin (2024) Near-term forecasting of terrestrial mobile species distributions for adaptive management under extreme weather events. Global Change Biology, 30 (10):e17579. ISSN 1354-1013 (Print), 1365-2486 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17579)

competitive system, almost periodic solution, existence, global asymptotic stability

Wang, Qinglong, Liu, Zhijun, Li, Zuxiong and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Existence and global asymptotic stability of positive almost periodic solutions of a two-species competitive system. International Journal of Biomathematics, 7 (4):1450040. ISSN 1793-5245 (Print), 1793-7159 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793524514500405)

connectivity, rainfall, wind, desert locust, red-billed quelea

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1641/B570209)

dengue; model; aedes albopictus; China; temperature; rainfall

Cheng, Qu, Liu, Yan, Wang, Xia, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) The relative importance of key meteorological factors affecting numbers of mosquito vectors of dengue fever. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17 (4):e0011247. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1935-2727 (Print), 1935-2735 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011247)

dose-response curves, dynamic delayed Ricker difference model (DRDM), curve fitting, data analysis, hormesis

Yang, Linqian, Wang, Jiaying, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Tang, Sanyi (2021) A universal delayed difference model fitting dose-response curves. Dose-Response, 9 (4). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1559-3258 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/15593258211062785)

dynamic ecological niche modelling; dynamic species abundance modelling; dynamic species distribution modelling; R package; spatial ecology; statistics; spatial or time-series

Dobson, Rachel, Challinor, Andy J., Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Jennings, Stewart, Willis, Stephen G. and Dallimer, Martin (2023) DynamicSDM: an R package for species geographical distribution and abundance modelling at high spatiotemporal resolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14 (5):17674644. pp. 1190-1199. ISSN 2041-210X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14101)

ecology, mosquitoes, survey, UK, wetlands, wetlandLIFE

Hawkes, Frances ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-3702 , Medlock, Jolyon M., Vaux, Alexander G. C., Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Gibson, Gabriella (2020) Wetland mosquito survey handbook: assessing suitability of British wetlands for mosquitoes. Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, UK. ISBN 978-0-900822-10-0

ecology; Aedes, Culex; UK; management

Medlock, J.M., Hawkes, Frances ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-3702 , Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Gibson, Gabriella, Abbott, Anthony, Cull, B., Gandy, S., Hardy, Harrison, Acott, Timothy and Vaux, A.G.C. (2024) Mosquito diversity and abundance in English wetlands – empirical evidence to guide predictions for wetland suitability for mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association. pp. 1-27. ISSN 2054-930X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.52004/2054930X-20231002)

effective reproductive number; intervention timing; COVID-19; lockdown

Xiao, Yanni, Tang, Biao, Wu, Jianhong, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Tang, Sanyi (2020) Linking key intervention timings to rapid decline of the COVID-19 effective reproductive number to quantify lessons from mainland China. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 97. pp. 296-298. ISSN 1201-9712 (Print), 1878-3511 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.030)

emerging infectious diseases; structured prevention and control interruptions; multiple peaks; optimal strategy

Zhou, Hao, Sha, He, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Tang, Sanyi (2024) Model analysis and data validation of structured prevention and control interruptions of emerging infectious diseases. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 88:62. pp. 1-34. ISSN 0303-6812 (Print), 1432-1416 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-024-02083-y)

environmental factors; respiratory infection; nonlinear system; causality

Chen, Diapeng, Sun, Xiaodan and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Inferring a causal relationship between environmental factors and respiratory infections using convergent cross-mapping. Entropy, 2023 (25):807. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1099-4300 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/e25050807)

fishing time, maximal biomass expectation, optimal threshold density, pulse perturbation, stochastic logistic equation

Tan, Yi, Ning, Lijuan, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) Optimal threshold density in a stochastic resource management model with pulse intervention. Natural Resource Modeling, 32 (4):e12220. ISSN 0890-8575 (Print), 1939-7445 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/nrm.12220)

global analysis, refuge, limit cycle, uniqueness, nonsmooth predator–prey model

Tang, Guangyao, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Global analysis of a Holling type II predator–prey model with a constant prey refuge. Nonlinear Dynamics, 76 (1). pp. 635-647. ISSN 0924-090X (Print), 1573-269X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-013-1157-4)

glucose-insulin model, insulin therapy, sliding bifurcation, duration, blood glucose level

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2015) Modelling the regulatory system for diabetes mellitus with a threshold window. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 22 (1-3). pp. 478-491. ISSN 1007-5704 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2014.08.012)

grasshopper, locust, NDVI, rainfall, Schistocerca gregaria

Tratalos, Jamie A. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.05.004)

hormetic effects; integro-difference equation; extended Ricker model; spatial heterogeneity; pest management

Song, Liwen, Tang, Sanyi, Xiang, Changcheng, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and He, Sha (2023) Modelling and bifurcation analysis of spatiotemporal hormetic effects on pest control. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 177:114194. pp. 1-16. ISSN 0960-0779 (Print), 1873-2887 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2023.114194)

host–parasitoid model, IPM, economic threshold, host–parasitoid ratio, initial density, outbreak frequency

Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2008) Models for integrated pest control and their biological implications. Mathematical Biosciences, 215 (1). pp. 115-125. ISSN 0025-5564 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2008.06.008)

impulsive chemostat model, Poincar´e map, order-k periodic solution, transcritical bifurcation, stability

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) Complex dynamics of an impulsive chemostat model. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (ijbc), 29 (8):1950101. ISSN 0218-1274 (Print), 1793-6551 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127419501013)

impulsive single-species model, positive periodic solution Brouwer’s fixed point theorem, Lyapunov function

Tan, Ronghua, Liu, Zhijun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2011.07.056)

infection, micro-CT, Onchocerca, peritrophic membrane, simulium

Hall, M.J.R., Martin-Vega, D., Clark, B., Ghosh, D., Rogers, M., Pigoli, D., Veriegh, F.B.D., Tetteh-Kumah, A., Osei-Atweneboana, M.Y. and Cheke, R.A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2021) Micro-CT imaging of onchocerca infection of simulium damnosum s.l. blackflies and comparison of the peritrophic membrane thickness of forest and savannah flies. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 35 (3). pp. 231-238. ISSN 0269-283X (Print), 1365-2915 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12509)

intergrated pest management, host-parasitoid model, economic threshold, mathematical model

He, Mengqi, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2020) A holling type II discrete switching host-parasitoid system with a nonlinear threshold policy for integrated pest management. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2020:9425285. ISSN 1026-0226 (Print), 1607-887X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/9425285)

length difference test, phylogenetic analysis, filarial nematodes, sequence alignment, dna substitution, incongruence, wolbachia, trees, identification, congruence

Morales-Hojas, R., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1079/JOH2006331)

migrant pests, agriculture, South Africa, Africa, crop protection, locust, quelea bird, armyworm, crop damage, crop loss, forecasting

Cheke, R. A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Rosenberg, L. J. and Kieser, M. E. (eds.) (2000) Workshop on research p riorities for migrant pests of agriculture in Southern Africa, Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, 24–26 March 1999. Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, UK. ISBN 0859545229

model, SIR, vaccination, pulse

Qin, Wenjie, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2013) Nonlinear pulse vaccination in an SIR epidemic model with resource limitation. Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2013:670263. ISSN 1085-3375 (Print), 1687-0409 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/670263)

mosquito larvae; West Nile virus; seasonality; vector; United Kingdom

Vaux, AGC, Abbott, Anthony, Johnston, CJ, Hawkes, Frances ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-3702 , Hopkins, Richard ORCID: 0000-0003-4935-5825 , Cull, B, Gibson, Gabriella, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Callaghan, A and Medlock, JM (2024) An update on the ecology, seasonality and distribution of Culex modestus in England. Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 2023. pp. 1-19. ISSN 2054-930X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.52004/JEMCA20231003)

multiscale model, semi-stochastic simulation, outbreaks, threshold policy

Xiao, Yanni, Xiang, Changcheng, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Tang, Sanyi (2020) Coupling the macroscale to the microscale in a spatiotemporal context to examine effects of spatial diffusion on disease transmission. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 82:58. ISSN 0092-8240 (Print), 1522-9602 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-020-00736-9)

natural enemy, pest, biological control, dispersal

Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-009-9438-2)

neural network, machine learning, COVID-19, heterogeneity, model, Shanghai, epidemiology

Tang, Biao, Ma, Kexin, Liu, Yan, Wang, Xia, Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2024) Managing spatio-temporal heterogeneity of susceptibles by embedding it into an homogeneous model: a mechanistic and deep learning study. PLoS Computational Biology, 20 (9):e1012497. ISSN 1553-734X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012497)

onchocerciasis, Simulium damnosum cytospecies, transmission, forest, Savannah, deforestation, remote-sensing, Ghana, Togo

Wilson, M.D., Cheke, R.A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Fiasse, S.P.J., Grist, S., Osei-Ateweneboana, M.Y., Tetteh-Kumah, A., Fiasorgbor, G.K., Jolliffe, F.R., Boakye, D.A., Hougard, J.-M., Yameogo, L. and Post, R.J. (2002) Deforestation and the spatio-temporal distribution of savannah and forest members of the Simulium damnosum complex in southern Ghana and south-western Togo. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 96 (6). pp. 632-639. ISSN 0035-9203 (Print), 1878-3503 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90335-4)

onchocerciasis, filariasis, Simulium damnosum, elimination, APOC, Equatorial Guinea

Traoré, S., Wilson, M.D., Sima, A., Barro, T., Diallo, A., Aké, A., Coulibaly, S., Cheke, R.A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Meyer, R.R.F., Mas, J.i, McCall, P.J., Post, R.J., Zouré, H., Noma, M., Yaméogo, L., Sékétéli, A.V. and Amazigo, U.V. (2009) The elimination of the onchocerciasis vector from the island of Bioko as a result of larviciding by the WHO African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control. Acta Tropica, 111 (3). pp. 211-218. ISSN 0001-706X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.03.007)

onchocerciasis, ivermectin, simulium damnosum s.l., onchocerca volvulus, transmission 55 potentials, transmission persistence, oviposition traps

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Winskill, Peter, Tirados, Iñaki, Walker, Martin, Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y., Biritwum, Nana-Kwadwo, Tetteh-Kumah, Anthony, Boakye, Daniel A., Wilson, Michael D., Post, Rory J. and Basañez, María-Gloria (2015) Onchocerciasis transmission in Ghana: persistence under different control strategies and the role of the simuliid vectors. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9 (4):e0003688. ISSN 1935-2735 (Print), 1935-2735 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

optimum timing, pest control, IPM, economic threshold, augmentation, predator–prey model

Tang, Sanyi, Tang, Guangyao and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.02.034)

outbreaks, plagues

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2007) Thinking long term. Science, 318 (5850). pp. 577-578. ISSN 0036-8075 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1150636)

pandemic A/H1N1 influenza, mathematical modelling, reproduction number, Fengxiao, outbreak peaking times

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

pandemic, A/H1N1influenza,, mathematical modelling, reproduction number, fengxiao, outbreak peaking times

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

patterns, Africa, Red-billed Quelea

Jones, Peter J., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 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:https://doi.org/10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.3.1.312)

persistence and partial extinction, competitive system, impulse, delay

Liu, Zhijun, Wu, Jianhua and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxq033)

piece-wise epidemic model, vaccination, generalized equilibrium, global dynamics, perturbed system, limit cycle

Wang, Aili, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) Global dynamics of a piece-wise epidemic model with switching vaccination strategy. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B), 19 (9). pp. 2915-2940. ISSN 1531-3492 (Print), 1553-524X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.2915)

planar impulsive semi-dynamical system; integrated pest management; Poincaré map; impulsive set; phase set; global stability

Tang, Sanyi, Pang, Wenhong, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Wu, Jianhong (2015) Global dynamics of a state-dependent feedback control system. Advances in Difference Equations:322. pp. 1-70. ISSN 1687-1839 (Print), 1687-1847 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-015-0661-x)

plant disease, epidemiology, cultural control, economic threshold, Bi-threshold value

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2009.10.004)

pulse vaccination, HFMD, contaminated environment, indirect transmission

Wang, Jinyan, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2019) Modelling the effects of contaminated environments in mainland China on seasonal HFMD infections and the potential benefit of a pulse vaccination strategy. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B), 24 (11). pp. 5849-5870. ISSN 1531-3492 (Print), 1553-524X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2019109)

random perturbations; ricker model; hormetic zone; blurred orbit; bifurcation

Yan, Dingding, He, Mengqi, Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Zhang, Qianqian and Tang, Sanyi (2024) A stochastic hormesis Ricker model and its application to multiple fields. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 185:115131. pp. 1-13. ISSN 0960-0779 (Print), 1873-2887 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2024.115131)

red-billed Quelea, migration, sea, Senegal

Sarr, A.S., Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Barlow, C.R. (2024) Frequent long-distance excursions by red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea off the coast of Senegal. Malimbus: Journal of West African Ornithology, 46 (2). pp. 92-94. ISSN 0331-3689

red-billed quelea, Quelea quelea, fenthion, fire-bombs, integrated pest management.

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Sidatt, Mohamed El Hady (2018) A review of alternatives to fenthion for quelea bird control. Crop Protection, 116. pp. 15-23. ISSN 0261-2194 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2018.10.005)

red-billed quelea, Quelea quelea, soil, organophosphate, fenthion, cyanophos, explosions, diesel, petrol, plastics, phthalates, persistence

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Adranyi, Enoch, Cox, John R., Farman, Dudley I. ORCID: 0000-0003-3579-3672 , Magoma, Richard N., Mbereki, Collen, McWilliam, Andrew N., Mtobesya, Boaz N. and van der Walt, Etienne (2013) Soil contamination and persistence of pollutants following organophosphate sprays and explosions to control red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea). Pest Management Science, 69 (3). pp. 386-396. ISSN 1526-498X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.3311)

residual effect of pesticide, delayed response to pesticide application, IPM, threshold condition, economic threshold

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nonrwa.2012.02.003)

residual effects of pesticides, pest control, IPM, Volterra’s principle, pest-natural enemy system

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2011) 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 (Print), 1432-1416 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-011-0501-x)

sacred lakes, crocodiles, fishing, sustainability, indigenous communities, rites, fish, biodiversity

Anwana, E.D., Cheke, R. A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Martin, A. M. ORCID: 0000-0001-9305-7302 , Obireke, L., Asei, M., Otufu, P. and Otobotekere, D. (2010) The crocodile is our brother: sacred lakes of the Niger Delta, implications for conservation management. In: Verschuuren, Bas, Wild, Robert, Mcneely, Jeffrey and Oviedo, Gonzalo, (eds.) Sacred Natural Sites: Conserving Nature and Culture. Earthscan / International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), London / Washington, DC, pp. 129-138. ISBN 9781849711661

simulium damnosum complex, onchocerca volvulus, temperature, rainfall, river discharges, mathematical models

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , Basáñez, Maria-Gloria, Perry, Malorie, White, Michale T., Garms, Rolf, Obuobie, E., Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Young, Stephen, Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y., Intsiful, Joseph, Shen, Mingwang, Boakye, Daniel A. and Wilson, Michael D. (2015) Potential effects of warmer worms and vectors on onchocerciasis transmission in West Africa. Philosophical Transactions B, 370 (1665):20130559. ISSN 0962-8436 (Print), 1471-2970 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0559)

simulium yahense, Bioko, insecticide

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 , 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:https://doi.org/10.2478/v10043-009-0013-8)

smoking; age-structured model; stability; Lyapunov function

Tan, Yuan-Shun, Li, Xiao-Xu, Yang, Jing and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2022) Global stability of an age-structured model of smoking and its treatment. International Journal of Biomathematics. ISSN 1793-5245 (Print), 1793-7159 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793524522500632)

spatial epidemiology

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.10.028)

stochastic difference model; newly reported cases; change point; mean first passage time; data fitting

He, Sha, Yan, Dingding, Shu, Hongying, Tang, Sanyi, Wang, Xia and Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Randomness accelerates the dynamic clearing process of the COVID-19 outbreaks in China. Mathematical Biosciences, 363:109055. ISSN 0025-5564 (Print), 1879-3134 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2023.109055)

structured treatment interruptions, Filippov system, sliding mode, pseudo-equilibrium

Tang, Biao, Xiao, Yanni, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Wang, Ning (2015) Piecewise virus-immune dynamic model with HIV-1 RNA-guided therapy. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 377. pp. 36-46. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.03.040)

sunbird, Anthodiaeta, Hedydipna

Mann, Clive F. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2014) The sunbird genera Anthodiaeta and Hedydipna revisited. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 134 (2). pp. 159-160. ISSN 0007-1595

sunbird, bills, colour

Cheke, Robert ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Barlow, Clive R. (2024) Occurrence of fully grown Western violet-backed sunbirds Anthreptes longuemarei with pink bills. Malimbus: Journal of West African Ornithology, 46 (1). pp. 46-48. ISSN 0331-3689

sunbirds, flowerpeckers

Iddi, K.N., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 and Kenyon, Lawrence (2006) Phylogenies of the sunbirds (Nectariniidae) and flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) based on analyses of vocalizations. Journal of Ornithology, 147 (Sup 1). p. 185. ISSN 0021-8375 (Print), 1439-0361 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-006-0093-1)

tumour; immune response curve; radio-chemotherapy response curve; mixed response curve; hormesis; synergy

Tang, Sanyi, Li, Shuo, Tang, Biao, Wang, Xia, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7437-1934 (2023) Hormetic and synergistic effects of cancer treatments revealed by modelling combinations of radio ‑ or chemotherapy with immunotherapy. BMC Cancer, 23:1040. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1471-2407 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-023-11542-6)