Allan Spessa

Allan Spessa
Country	Australia
Organizations:	Australian Plague Locust Commission
Titles:	Research Ecologist/Environmental Modeller
Focal areas:
Agriculture Agroecology Artificial Intelligence Biogeochemistry Biological Control Biology Climate Change Early Warning Ecology Ecosystem Services Forecasting Geographic Information System (GIS) Insect Behavior Integrated Pest Management Landscape Ecology Management Modeling Population Dynamics Remote Sensing Sustainability Science
Focal species:
Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)

Resources by this author

Name	Year published	Resource link	Author
Short-term population forecasting of the Australian Plague Locust (Chortoicetes terminifera) based on machine-learning algorithms	2025	View	Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, Australian Plague Locust Commission, Edward Deveson, Allan Spessa, John Baumgartner, James Camac

Select publications from this author

• Baumgartner, J., Spessa, A., Deveson, E., camac, J.S., 2024. Short-term population forecasting of the Australian Plague Locust (Chortoicetes terminifera). CEBRA project 23A. Technical Report for the Australian Plague Locust Commission. CEBRA project 23A.
• Lawton, D., Scarth, P., Deveson, E.D., Piou, C., Spessa, A., Waters, C., Cease, A.J., 2022. Seeing the locust in the swarm: accounting for spatiotemporal hierarchy improves ecological models of insect populations. Ecography 2022:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05763
• Wang, B., Deveson, E.D., Waters, C., Spessa, A., Lawton, D., Feng, P., Liu, D.L., 2019. Future climate change likely to reduce the Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera) seasonal outbreaks. Science of The Total Environment 668:947–957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.439