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Host choice host decoy trap host outbreak host-parasitoid model host-seeking behaviour Host-seeking vectors host–parasitoid model host–parasitoid ratio house finches Human blood index identification immune response curve immunocompetence immunotherapy impulse impulsive chemostat model impulsive difference equations impulsive differential equation impulsive harvesting impulsive single-species model incongruence infection initial density inoculative releases insecticide insulin therapy integrated pest management intergrated pest management Intervention timing IOD IPM islands Ivermectin Juvenile plumage behaviour Kalman filter Kent larviciding Leishmania length difference test limit cycle Lockdown locust locust control Lyapunov function mansonellosis mathematical model Mathematical modelling mathematical models maximal biomass expectation maximum sustainable yield Metarhizium Metarhizium acridum Microfilarial prevalence migration mixed response curve model molecular genetics molecular phylogenetics Mosquito augmentation mosquitoes Moxidectin Multi-scale model Multiple pesticide applications multiscale model NAO natural enemies natural enemy NDVI near-term forecasting NEPAD Nicholson-Bailey model Nigeria Non-overlapping generation non-target birds and reptiles non-target species nonlinear control action Nonlinear impulsive nonlinear pulse nonsmooth predator–prey model Nontrivial periodic solution nutrition Onchocerca volvulus onchocerciasis optimal control optimal threshold density optimum timing order-k periodic solution organophosphate organophosphate pesticides Oriental Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria manilensis (Meyen 1835) ornithology outbreak frequency outbreak peaking times outbreaks Ovipositing vectors oviposition traps pandemic pandemic A/H1N1 influenza Paradox parasite loads parasite plug parous rate Parrot trade partial rank correlation coefficient pathology patterns PCA periodic solution persistence persistence and partial extinction perturbed system 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S. squamosum form E S. yahense safety Sahel sand fly SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant satellite savanna Savannah strain Schistocerca gregaria seasonal environments seasonal forecasting secretory gel semi-stochastic simulation sensitivity analysis sequence alignment Serine recombinase Short-term forecast sibling species Simulium damnosum Simulium damnosum (s.l.) Simulium damnosum (sensu lato) Simulium damnosum complex Simulium damnosum s.l Simulium damnosum s.l. Simulium sanctipauli Simulium sirbanum Simulium soubrense Simulium spp. vectors Simulium squamosum Simulium squamosum E Simulium yahense SIR SIR model sliding bifurcation sliding homoclinic orbit sliding mode small-scale farmers SOI soil spatial epidemiology species distribution modelling spectral analysis spectral coherence Spodoptera exempta SpvB protein homolog stability stage structure stationary distribution step-by-step NPI release strategy Stochastic dynamical model stochastic logistic equation Stochastic tumour-immune model Stochastic tumour-immune system stomodeal valve strains strong and weak density dependent death rates structured treatment interruptions Subling species Sunbird Sunbirds sunspot groups surveillance switch-like transition synergy São Tomé and Príncipe Tanzania Temperature threats threshold Threshold condition Threshold dynamics threshold policy time series time-lags Togo Transcritical and pitchfork bifurcations transcritical bifurcation Transmission transmission 55 potentials transmission model transmission persistence treatment trees tumour Tumour-immune model Union Medal uniqueness vaccination Vector abundance Vector biology vector control Vector ecology vector-borne disease Violet-tailed sunbird Volterra’s principle West Africa West Nile Virus wildlife wind WNV Wolbachia Wolbachia phages Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes

Number of items: 615.

A/H1N1influenza

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

Acetylcholinesterase

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s10646-012-0911-6)

adaptive behaviour

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

Aedes

Wang, Xia, Tang, Sanyi, Wu, Jianhong, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/s13071-019-3295-0)

Africa

Routledge, Isobel, Walker, Martin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/s13071-018-2864-y)

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

Jones, Peter J., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.3.1.312)

African Barred Owlet

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

agriculture

Oluwole, Oluwafemi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3763/ijas.2009.0431)

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

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

He, Sha, Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s11538-018-0512-5)

almost periodic solution

Wang, Qinglong, Liu, Zhijun, Li, Zuxiong and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1142/S1793524514500405)

Alternative treatment strategy

Annobón

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

Annual transmission potential

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/bs.apar.2021.01.002)

Anthodiaeta

Mann, Clive F. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

Apolygus lucorum

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Xiang, Changcheng, Xiao, Yanni, Wang, Xia, Wu, Jianhong, Li, Guoping and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1098/rsif.2019.0468)

armyworm

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1093/icesjms/fst150)

attractor

augmentation

Tang, Sanyi, Tang, Guangyao and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.02.034)

avian malaria parasites

avian predation

Mullié, Wim C., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pone.0244733)

avicide

Elliott, Clive C.H., Mtobesya, Boaz N. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.2989/00306525.2014.900827)

backward bifurcation

Xu, Xiaxia, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.apm.2014.10.072)

Backward bifurcation

Cheng, Tianyu, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1115/1.4043001)

Zhang, Xianghong, Tang, Sanyi, Liu, Qiyong, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.mbs.2018.03.003)

Barbados

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-1934 (2009) Editor's foreword. In: Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

Beffa form of S. soubrense

Lamberton, Poppy H. L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/s13071-014-0511-9)

Benin

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.106970)

Beverton-Holt equations

Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.na.2006.02.049)

Beverton–Holt model

Wang, Xia, Xu, Zihui, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.chaos.2017.04.030)

Bi-threshold value

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.matcom.2009.10.004)

Bifurcation

Li, Changtong, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/s13662-020-02971-9)

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshan and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1142/S0218127420501047)

Zhang, Xianghong, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s11538-016-0208-7)

Biocontrol

biodiversity

Mustapha, M., McCall, P.J., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00330.x)

Bioko

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.2478/v10043-009-0013-8)

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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)

biological control

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.09.048)

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s11538-013-9886-6)

Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s11538-009-9438-2)

bird pest

Borello, Wendy D. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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 pest control

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01295.x)

bird predation

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

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

birds

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

Atkinson, Philip W., Adams, William M., Brouwer, Joost, Buchanan, Graham, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1017/S0959270913000531)

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

birth-pulse

Zhang, Xianghong, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2014.09.004)

biting rate

Black Kite

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

blackflies

Talom, Blaise Armand Defo, Enyong, Peter, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-1934, Djouaka, Rousseau and Hawkes, Frances M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106020)

Adler, Peter H., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.meegid.2010.07.003)

blindness

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.09.002)

Blindness prevalence

blood glucose level

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.cnsns.2014.08.012)

blood parasites

Borneo

British Ornithologists' Union

British Ornithologists’ Union

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-1934 (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)

Butyrylcholinesterase

CAAPD

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

Cameroon

Tamungang, Simon A., Ofeh, Moses A., Tchamba, Martin N., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.4314/ijbcs.v10i3.26)

Tamungang, Simon A., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1155/2014/753294)

Tamungang, Simon A., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.5897/IJBC2013.0569)

cameroon volcanic line

Canard cycle

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.amc.2013.08.024)

cancer

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.matcom.2014.09.001)

Yang, Jin, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.matcom.2014.09.001)

cancer model

Chen, Lin, Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshan, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.apm.2022.10.007)

carotenoids

CCA

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.12.022)

change

Post, Rory J., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/1756-3305-6-205)

Chaos

checklist

Chemotherapeutic dose response

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.chaos.2019.03.029)

chromosomes

city-based pattern

Wang, Hao, Li, Tangjuan, Gao, Huan, Huang, Chenxi, Tang, Biao, Tang, Sanyi, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/s12879-023-08316-7)

climate adaptation strategies

Dobson, Rachel, Willis, Stephen G., Jennings, Stewart, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1111/gcb.17579)

climate change

Cluster analysis

coexistence

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.tpb.2007.12.001)

combined therapy

competitive advantage

Xia, Fan, Yang, Xinpei, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.idm.2021.08.001)

competitive system

Liu, Zhijun, Wu, Jianhua and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1093/imamat/hxq033)

complex dynamics

Qin, Wenjie, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1155/2014/450935)

complexes

congruence

Morales-Hojas, R., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1079/JOH2006331)

connectivity

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1641/B570209)

conservation

conservation implications

conservation status

control

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00725.x)

control measures

Control reproduction number

convergence cross mapping

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3390/agronomy11010069)

cooperative breeding

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

COVID-19

Xiao, Yanni, Tang, Biao, Wu, Jianhong, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.030)

COVID-19 outbreak

Zhou, Weike, Wang, Aili, Wang, Xia, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3390/ijerph17228560)

Xia, Fan, Xiao, Yanni, Liu, Peiyu, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3934/mbe.2020274)

crop pests

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s10336-006-0093-1)

Culex modestus

Medlock, Jolyon M., Vaux, Alexander G.C., Gibson, Gabriella, Hawkes, Frances ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0964-3702 and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1136/vr.g5679)

cultural control

Cumulative effect

cumulative number of deaths

cyanophos

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-1934, Adranyi, Enoch, Cox, John R., Farman, Dudley I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1002/ps.3311)

cytogenetics

cytoplasmic incompatibility

cytospecies distribution

damnosum

delay

delayed response to pesticide application

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.nonrwa.2012.02.003)

Dengue

Dengue disease

Dengue fever

Desert Locust

Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål 1775)

diagnosis

Brattig, Norbert W., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105677)

diesel

discrete Euler-Lagrange equation

Disease free periodic solution

dispersal

district-based pattern

divergence

Djodji form

dna substitution

Doxycycline

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1080/14787210.2017.1286980)

drop-catching

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

Drosophila-santomea

Drug response

duration

dynamic species management

dynamic threshold

Liang, Juhua, Tang, Sanyi, Nieto, Juan J. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.mbs.2013.07.008)

early warning systems

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

Ecological paradox

economic threshold

He, Mengqi, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1155/2020/9425285)

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1137/110847020)

Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.mbs.2008.06.008)

effective reproduction number

Effective reproductive number

elimination

endogenous

Tratalos, Jamie A., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3354/cr00930)

ENSO

environment

environmental change

Environmental variables

environmentally friendly pest control

epidemiology

Equatorial Guinea

Eradication and persistence

Evolution

existence

explosions

Extinction and persistence

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.02.025)

extinction and permanence

extreme weather events

fengxiao

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

fenthion

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.cropro.2018.10.005)

fertilisers

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

filarial nematodes

Filippov model

Zhou, Weike, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.apm.2016.05.040)

Filippov system

Tang, Biao, Xiao, Yanni, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.03.040)

fire-bombs

fishing time

Tan, Yi, Ning, Lijuan, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1111/nrm.12220)

Fledgling

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.25226/bboc.v139i4.2019.a5)

Flowerpeckers

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

Iddi, K.N., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s10336-006-0093-1)

food aid

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

food security

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

forecast

forest

Forest strain

frequency of pesticide applications

generalized equilibrium

Wang, Aili, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.2915)

geographical range

Ghana

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

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

global analysis

Tang, Guangyao, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s11071-013-1157-4)

global asymptotic stability

Global dynamics

glucose-insulin model

grasshopper

Tratalos, Jamie A. and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.05.004)

green revolution

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

Grey parrot

Gulf of Guinea

habitats

haemoglobin

harvesting operations

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

health

Hedydipna

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

history

Holling type II predator-prey model

Holling’s disc equation

hormesis

Tang, Sanyi, Li, Shuo, Tang, Biao, Wang, Xia, Xiao, Yanni and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/s12885-023-11542-6)

hospital beds

host

Host choice

Lamberton, Poppy H. L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1186/s13071-016-1703-2)

host decoy trap

host outbreak

host-parasitoid model

host-seeking behaviour

Host-seeking vectors

host–parasitoid model

host–parasitoid ratio

house finches

Human blood index

identification

immune response curve

immunocompetence

immunotherapy

impulse

impulsive chemostat model

Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1142/S0218127419501013)

impulsive difference equations

impulsive differential equation

impulsive harvesting

impulsive single-species model

Tan, Ronghua, Liu, Zhijun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.apm.2011.07.056)

incongruence

infection

initial density

inoculative releases

insecticide

insulin therapy

integrated pest management

intergrated pest management

Intervention timing

IOD

IPM

Tian, Yuan, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3846/mma.2019.010)

Tang, Sanyi, Liang, Juhua, Tan, Yuanshun and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s00285-011-0501-x)

islands

Ivermectin

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

Juvenile plumage behaviour

Kalman filter

Kent

larviciding

Leishmania

Hall, Martin J. R., Ghosh, Debashi, Martin-Vega, Daniel, Clark, Brett, Clatworthy, Innes, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009682)

length difference test

limit cycle

Lockdown

locust

locust control

Lyapunov function

mansonellosis

mathematical model

Mathematical modelling

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

mathematical models

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1098/rstb.2013.0559)

maximal biomass expectation

maximum sustainable yield

Metarhizium

Metarhizium acridum

Microfilarial prevalence

migration

mixed response curve

model

Qin, Wenjie, Tang, Sanyi and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1155/2013/670263)

molecular genetics

molecular phylogenetics

Morales-Hojas, R., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1590/S0074-02762007005000114)

Mosquito augmentation

mosquitoes

Moxidectin

Multi-scale model

Multiple pesticide applications

multiscale model

Xiao, Yanni, Xiang, Changcheng, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1007/s11538-020-00736-9)

NAO

natural enemies

natural enemy

NDVI

near-term forecasting

NEPAD

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

Nicholson-Bailey model

Nigeria

Non-overlapping generation

non-target birds and reptiles

non-target species

nonlinear control action

Nonlinear impulsive

nonlinear pulse

nonsmooth predator–prey model

Nontrivial periodic solution

nutrition

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

Onchocerca volvulus

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

onchocerciasis

Crainey, James L., Hurst, Jacob, Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00852)

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

optimal control

optimal threshold density

optimum timing

order-k periodic solution

organophosphate

organophosphate pesticides

Oriental Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria manilensis (Meyen 1835)

ornithology

outbreak frequency

outbreak peaking times

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

outbreaks

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

Ovipositing vectors

oviposition traps

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

pandemic

pandemic A/H1N1 influenza

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

Paradox

parasite loads

parasite plug

parous rate

Parrot trade

partial rank correlation coefficient

pathology

patterns

PCA

periodic solution

persistence

persistence and partial extinction

perturbed system

pest

pest control

pest free periodic solution

pest resistance

pest-free periodic solution

pest-natural enemy system

Pesticide application frequency

Pesticide switches

pesticides

Peter Jones

petrol

phthalates

phylogenetic analysis

piece-wise epidemic model

plagues

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

plant disease

plastics

ploughing operations

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

plumage coloration

Poincare map

Poincar´e map

polyphenism

population differentiation

Population dynamics

population size

positive periodic solution Brouwer’s fixed point theorem

Precipitation

predation

predator–prey model

prevalence

prevention and control strategy

promastigote

Prostate cancer

Chen, Lin, Yang, Jin, Tan, Yuanshun, Liu, Zijian and Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.105856)

pseudo-equilibrium

Psittacus erithacus

pulse

pulse perturbation

Pulse spraying

pulsed therapy

quelea

Quelea quelea

radio-chemotherapy response curve

rainfall

random perturbation

red-billed quelea

refuge

reproduction number

Tang, Sanyi, Xiao, Yanni, Yuan, Lin, Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.035)

residual effect of pesticide

residual effects of pesticides

resource limitation

Ricker equation

river discharges

S. damnosum s.s

S. sanctipauli

S. sirbanum

S. squamosum form C

S. squamosum form E

S. yahense

safety

Sahel

sand fly

SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

satellite

savanna

Savannah strain

Schistocerca gregaria

seasonal environments

seasonal forecasting

secretory gel

semi-stochastic simulation

sensitivity analysis

sequence alignment

Serine recombinase

Short-term forecast

sibling species

Simulium damnosum

Simulium damnosum (s.l.)

Simulium damnosum (sensu lato)

Simulium damnosum complex

Simulium damnosum s.l

Simulium damnosum s.l.

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

Simulium sanctipauli

Simulium sirbanum

Simulium soubrense

Simulium spp. vectors

Simulium squamosum

Simulium squamosum E

Simulium yahense

SIR

SIR model

sliding bifurcation

sliding homoclinic orbit

sliding mode

small-scale farmers

SOI

soil

spatial epidemiology

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.10.028)

species distribution modelling

spectral analysis

spectral coherence

Spodoptera exempta

SpvB protein homolog

stability

stage structure

stationary distribution

step-by-step NPI release strategy

Stochastic dynamical model

stochastic logistic equation

Stochastic tumour-immune model

Stochastic tumour-immune system

stomodeal valve

strains

strong and weak density dependent death rates

structured treatment interruptions

Subling species

Sunbird

Sunbirds

Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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

sunspot groups

surveillance

switch-like transition

synergy

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tanzania

Temperature

threats

threshold

Threshold condition

Threshold dynamics

threshold policy

time series

time-lags

Togo

Transcritical and pitchfork bifurcations

transcritical bifurcation

Transmission

transmission 55 potentials

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)

transmission model

transmission persistence

Lamberton, Poppy H.L., Cheke, Robert A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/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:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003688)