Laura Burgin
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Insights on Climate Risks to the Central African Forest Ecosystems: An Interdisciplinary Review
Insights on Climate Risks to the Central African Forest Ecosystems: An Interdisciplinary Review Open
The Congo Basin in Central Africa is home to the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon. These forests sequester more carbon than any other tropical forest both in the above‐ground biomass and in the world's largest peat d…
View article: Airborne spread of foot-and-mouth disease - model intercomparison
Airborne spread of foot-and-mouth disease - model intercomparison Open
Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly infectious vesicular disease of cloven-hoofed animals caused by foot-and-mouth disease virus. It spreads by direct contact between animals, by animal products (milk, meat and semen), by mechanical transfe…
View article: Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Change Simulations for Understanding Future Climate and Informing Decision-Making in Africa
Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Change Simulations for Understanding Future Climate and Informing Decision-Making in Africa Open
Pan-Africa convection-permitting regional climate model simulations have been performed to study the impact of high resolution and the explicit representation of atmospheric moist convection on the present and future climate of Africa. The…
View article: Climate risk narratives: An iterative reflective process for co-producing and integrating climate knowledge
Climate risk narratives: An iterative reflective process for co-producing and integrating climate knowledge Open
View article: An early warning system to predict and mitigate wheat rust diseases in Ethiopia
An early warning system to predict and mitigate wheat rust diseases in Ethiopia Open
Wheat rust diseases pose one of the greatest threats to global food security, including subsistence farmers in Ethiopia. The fungal spores transmitting wheat rust are dispersed by wind and can remain infectious after dispersal over long di…
View article: FCFA HyCRISTAL Climate Narrative Rural Infographic and Brief
FCFA HyCRISTAL Climate Narrative Rural Infographic and Brief Open
These stories describe three possible futures for rural East Africa in 2050. How the climate will change in the coming decades is uncertain, so three different plausible futures are included to demonstrate this range. These futures do not …
View article: Long‐term shifts in the seasonal abundance of adult <i>Culicoides</i> biting midges and their impact on potential arbovirus outbreaks
Long‐term shifts in the seasonal abundance of adult <i>Culicoides</i> biting midges and their impact on potential arbovirus outbreaks Open
Surveillance of adult Culicoides biting midge flight activity is used as an applied ecological method to guide the management of arbovirus incursions on livestock production in Europe and Australia. To date the impact of changes in the phe…
View article: Climate process chains: Examples from southern Africa
Climate process chains: Examples from southern Africa Open
The climate system comprises multiple components, primarily the atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere, each incorporating physical processes that interact across scales. To help understand the behaviour of this complex system, and evaluate clim…
View article: Scientific Understanding of East African climate change from the HyCRISTAL project
Scientific Understanding of East African climate change from the HyCRISTAL project Open
Integrating Hydro-Climate Science into Policy Decisions for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure and Livelihoods in East Africa (HyCRISTAL) is a Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) project funded to deliver new understanding of East African clima…
View article: Microsatellite Analysis and Urediniospore Dispersal Simulations Support the Movement of <i>Puccinia graminis</i> f. sp. <i>tritici</i> from Southern Africa to Australia
Microsatellite Analysis and Urediniospore Dispersal Simulations Support the Movement of <i>Puccinia graminis</i> f. sp. <i>tritici</i> from Southern Africa to Australia Open
The Australian wheat stem rust (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) population was shaped by the introduction of four exotic incursions into the country. It was previously hypothesized that at least two of these (races 326-1,2,3,5,6 and 194-…
View article: Dynamical downscaling of GloSea5 over Ethiopia
Dynamical downscaling of GloSea5 over Ethiopia Open
We have implemented dynamical downscaling of the Met Office GloSea5 global seasonal forecasting system and analysed its ability to generate skilful forecasts of characteristics of the June-September rainy season in Ethiopia that are of soc…
View article: Large-Scale Atmospheric Dispersal Simulations Identify Likely Airborne Incursion Routes of Wheat Stem Rust Into Ethiopia
Large-Scale Atmospheric Dispersal Simulations Identify Likely Airborne Incursion Routes of Wheat Stem Rust Into Ethiopia Open
In recent years, severe wheat stem rust epidemics hit Ethiopia, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest wheat-producing country. These were caused by race TKTTF (Digalu race) of the pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, which, in Ethiopia, was f…
View article: Range expansion of the Bluetongue vector, Culicoides imicola, in continental France likely due to rare wind-transport events
Range expansion of the Bluetongue vector, Culicoides imicola, in continental France likely due to rare wind-transport events Open
The role of the northward expansion of Culicoides imicola Kieffer in recent and unprecedented outbreaks of Culicoides -borne arboviruses in southern Europe has been a significant point of contention. We combined entomological surveys, move…
View article: Understanding Spatio-Temporal Variability in the Reproduction Ratio of the Bluetongue (BTV-1) Epidemic in Southern Spain (Andalusia) in 2007 Using Epidemic Trees
Understanding Spatio-Temporal Variability in the Reproduction Ratio of the Bluetongue (BTV-1) Epidemic in Southern Spain (Andalusia) in 2007 Using Epidemic Trees Open
Andalusia (Southern Spain) is considered one of the main routes of introduction of bluetongue virus (BTV) into Europe, evidenced by a devastating epidemic caused by BTV-1 in 2007. Understanding the pattern and the drivers of BTV-1 spread i…
View article: Development and demonstration of a Lagrangian dispersion modeling system for real‐time prediction of smoke haze pollution from biomass burning in Southeast Asia
Development and demonstration of a Lagrangian dispersion modeling system for real‐time prediction of smoke haze pollution from biomass burning in Southeast Asia Open
Transboundary smoke haze caused by biomass burning frequently causes extreme air pollution episodes in maritime and continental Southeast Asia. With millions of people being affected by this type of pollution every year, the task to introd…
View article: Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Race TKTTF of <i>Puccinia graminis</i> f. sp. <i>tritici</i> that Caused a Wheat Stem Rust Epidemic in Southern Ethiopia in 2013–14
Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Race TKTTF of <i>Puccinia graminis</i> f. sp. <i>tritici</i> that Caused a Wheat Stem Rust Epidemic in Southern Ethiopia in 2013–14 Open
A severe stem rust epidemic occurred in southern Ethiopia during November 2013 to January 2014, with yield losses close to 100% on the most widely grown wheat cultivar, ‘Digalu’. Sixty-four stem rust samples collected from the regions were…