Edward Deveson

Edward Deveson
Edward Deveson
Country	Australia
Organizations:	Australian Plague Locust Commission
Titles:	Senior Locust Forecaster
Focal areas:
	Forecasting;

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

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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.
Ries, M.W., Adriaansen, C., Aldobai, S., Berry, K., Bal, A.B., Catenaccio, M.C., Cigliano, M.M., Cullen, D.A., Deveson, E.D., Diongue, A., Foquet, B., Hadrich, J., Hunter, D., Johnson, D.L., Karnatz, J.P., Lange, C.E., Lawton, D., Lazar, M., Latchininsky, A.V., Lecoq, M., Le Gall, M., Lockwood, J., Manneh, B., Overson, R., Peterson, B.F., Piou, C., Poot-Pech, M.A., Robinson, B.E., Rogers, S.M., Song, H., Springate, S., Therville, C., Trumper, E., Waters, C., Woller, D.A., Youngblood, J.P., Zhang, L., Cease, A.J., 2024. Global perspectives and transdisciplinary opportunities for locust and grasshopper pest management and research. Journal of Orthoptera Research 33:169–216. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.112803
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
Deveson, E., Martinez, A., 2017. Locusts in Southern Settler Societies: Argentine and Australian Experience and Responses, 1880–1940. In: Environmental History in the Making: Volume I: Explaining, pp. 259-286. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
Deveson, E.D., 2017. Plagues and Players: an environmental and scientific history of Australia’s southern locusts. degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University.
Adriaansen, C., Woodman, J.D., Deveson, E.D., Drake, V.A., 2016. Chapter 4.1 - The Australian Plague Locust—Risk and Response. In: Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, pp. 67-86. Academic Press, Boston. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-394847-2.00005-x
Veran, S., Simpson, S.J., Sword, G.A., Deveson, E.D., Piry, S., Hines, J.E., Berthier, K., 2015. Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of outbreaking species: influence of environment and migration in a locust. Ecology 96:737–748. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0183.1
Deveson, E.D., Woodman, J.D., 2014. Embryonic diapause in the Australian plague locust relative to parental experience of cumulative photophase decline. Journal of Insect Physiology 70:1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2014.08.004
Deveson, E.D., Woodman, J.D., 2013. Longevity relative to temperature of Scelio fulgidus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) emerging from Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera) eggs. Australian Journal of Entomology 52:277–281. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12019
Deveson, E.D., 2013. Satellite normalized difference vegetation index data used in managing Australian plague locusts. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 7:075096. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jrs.7.075096
Deveson, E.D., 2012. Naturae Amator and the grasshopper infestations of South Australia's early years. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 136:1–15.
Chapuis, M.P., Popple, J.A.M., Berthier, K., Simpson, S.J., Deveson, E., Spurgin, P., Steinbauer, M.J., Sword, G.A., 2011. Challenges to assessing connectivity between massive populations of the Australian plague locust. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278:3152–3160. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2605
Deveson, E.D., 2011. The search for a solution to Australian locust outbreaks: how developments in ecology and government responses influenced scientific research. Historical Records of Australian Science 22:1. https://doi.org/10.1071/hr11003
Story, P., Oliver, D.L., Deveson, E.D., McCulloch, L., Hamilton, G., Baker-Gabb, D., 2007. Estimating and reducing the amount of Plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus Gould) habitat sprayed with pesticides for locust control in the New South Wales Riverina. Emu 107:308–314. https://doi.org/10.1071/mu07055
Deveson, E.D., Drake, V.A., Hunter, D.M., Walker, P.W., Wang, H.K., 2005. Evidence from traditional and new technologies for northward migrations of Australian plague locusts (Chortoicetes terminifera) (Walker) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) to western Queensland. Austral Ecology 30:920–935. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01536.x
Deveson, E.D., Walker, P.W., 2005. Not a one-way trip: historical distribution data for Australian plague locusts support frequent seasonal exchange migrations. Journal of Orthoptera Research 14:91–105. https://doi.org/10.1665/1082-6467(2005)14[91:naothd]2.0.co;2
Ma, J.W., Han, X.Z., Hasibagan, Wang, C.L., Zhang, Y.L., Tang, J.Y., Xie, Z.Y., Deveson, E.D., 2005. Monitoring East Asian migratory locust plagues using remote sensing data and field investigations. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26:629–634. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431160310001595019
Deveson, E.D., Hunter, D., 2002. The operation of a GIS-based decision support system for Australian locust management. Insect Science 9:1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7917.2002.tb00167.x