Combining favorability modeling with collaborative geo‐visual analysis to improve agricultural pest management

Abstract

A pest is an organism that conflicts with human welfare, because it may affect crops, stored products, animals, or people (Rafikov & Balthazar, 2005). It is important to highlight that an organism is considered a pest only when its abundance reaches a level that seriously affects human welfare (Herzfeld & Sargent, 2017). Such pest outbreaks can threaten local flora and fauna (Tepley, Juan Paritis, & Veblen, 2012), and especially some agricultural pests can cause damages with significant economic impact for producers and the food supply chain, possibly threatening