Juan Antonio Navas Cortés

DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY, MODELING, RISK ANALYSIS, CLIMATE CHANGE, IPM

My research activities of the “Epidemiology and Integrated Control” Laboratory, focus on:

• Development of quantitative epidemiology models to facilitate disease prediction and the design of efficient control measures.
• Spatial and temporal dynamics of epidemics.
• Impact of climate change on plant pathogens.
• Detection, monitoring and quantification of diseases by remote sensing.
• Risk analysis and species distribution models of quarantine pathogens.

These activities are focused on diseases in Mediterranean crops, particularly Verticillium dahliae (Verticillium dahliae) of the olive tree and diseases caused by Xylella fastidiosa.

Outstanding contributions

• White, S.M.; Navas-Cortés, J.A.; Bullock, J.M.; Boscia, D.; Chapman, D.S. 2020. Estimating the epidemiology of emerging Xylella fastidiosa outbreaks in olives. Plant Pathology, 69:1403- 1413
• Schneider, K.; van der Werf, W.; Cendoya, M.; Mourits, M.; Navas-Cortés, J.A.; Vicent, A.; Lansink, A.O. 2020. Impact of Xylella fastidiosa subspecies pauca in European olives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117: 9250 – 9259
• Archidona-Yuste, A.; Wiegand, T.; Castillo, P.; Navas-Cortés, J.A. 2020. Spatial structure and soil properties shape local community structure of plant-parasitic nematodes in cultivated olive trees in southern Spain. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 287: 106688