Nigel Bell

Publications

• Relationships of plant traits and soil biota to soil functions change as nitrogen fertiliser rates increase in an intensively managed agricultural system
• Impacts of soil‐borne disease on plant yield and farm profit in dairying soils
• Interception and hot water treatment of mites and nematodes on root crops from the pacific islands
• Effects of climate change on the delivery of soil-mediated ecosystem services within the primary sector in temperate ecosystems: A review and New Zealand case study
• First report of Melodogyne fallax hosted by Trifolium repens (White clover): Implications for pasture and crop rotations in New Zealand
• Botanical survey of perennial ryegrass-based dairy pastures in three regions of New Zealand: Implications for ryegrass persistence
• First record of Helicotylenchus spitsbergensis Loof, 1971 (Nematoda: Tylenchida) in New Zealand with the first description of males
• Effect of the nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) on microbial communities in a pasture soil amended with bovine urine
• Detection of invertebrate suppressive soils, and identification of a possible biological control agent for Meloidogyne nematodes using high resolution rhizosphere microbial community analysis
• Managing biological succession in intensive pastoral ecosystems for improved production and sustainability
• Potential spread of pests in New Zealand through commercial transport of nursery plants
• A computerised identification key for 30 genera of plant parasitic nematodes
• An investigation of non-target impacts of ryegrass endophytes on nematodes and soil microorganisms
• Entomopathogenic nematodes as biocontrol agents in New Zealand agriculture: a case study
• Breeding white clover for tolerance to nematodes: overview of process and progress
• Efficacy of root digestion and maceration in determining abundance of root-inhabiting nematodes
• Best-practice pasture renewal for forage production and sustainability: description of farmer-led study and initial findings
• The impact of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) endophyte (Neotyphodium spp.) on non-target soil nematodes
• Biodiversity of indigenous tussock grassland sites in otago, canterbury and the central north island of new zealand I. The macro‐invertebrate fauna
• Biodiversity of indigenous tussock grassland sites in otago, canterbury and the central north island of New Zealand II. Nematodes
• Plant parasitic nematode survival and detection to inform biosecurity risk assessment
• High perennial ryegrass seeding rates do not negatively impact pasture sward persistence
• Implications of grass-clover interactions in dairy pastures for forage indexing systems. 4. Canterbury
• Defining the biosecurity risk posed by transported soil: Effects of storage time and environmental exposure on survival of soil biota
• First record of the root knot nematode, Meloidogyne minor in New Zealand with description, sequencing information and key to known species of Meloidogyne in New Zealand
• Quantifying the economic cost of invertebrate pests to New Zealand’s pastoral industry
• Implications of grass–clover interactions in dairy pastures for forage value indexing systems. 5. Southland
• Implications of grass–clover interactions in dairy pastures for forage value indexing systems. 2. Waikato
• Implications of grass–clover interactions in dairy pastures for forage indexing systems. 3. Manawatu
• Effects of invertebrate pests on white and annual clovers in dryland soil
• Identification and host range assessment of Paratylenchus nanus (Tylenchida: Tylenchulidae) and Paratrichodorus minor (Triplonchida: Trichodoridae)
• A bioassay technique to assess the molluscicidal effects of microbes
• Biodiversity of indigenous tussock grassland sites in otago, canterbury and the central north island of New Zealand III. Soil microorganisms
• Host range assessment of Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus (Tylenchida: Hoplolaimidae) on pasture species
• Impact of nitrification inhibitor application on the nematode community in dairy pasture soil
• Morphological and molecular confirmation of Xiphinema brevicollum, a nematode from the virus-vectoring X. americanum group, from New Zealand
• A review of the role of predatory mites in the biological control of lucerne flea, sminthurus viridis (l.) (collembola: Sminthuridae) and their potential use in New Zealand
• Development of a tomato/root knot nematode bioassay to screen beneficial microbes
• Biodiversity of indigenous tussock grassland sites in otago, canterbury and the central north island. V. Penicillia and aspergilli
• Impact of clover root weevil Sitona lepidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae on herbage yield and species composition in a ryegrass-white clover sward
• Cylindrocorpus inevectus sp. n. associated with the oil palm weevil, Elaeidobius kamerunicus (Faust) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with a synopsis of the family Cylindrocorporidae and establishment of Longibuccidae n. fam. (Diplogastroidea: Nematoda)
• Dynamics of sympatric Paratylenchus nanus and Paratrichodorus minor populations in soil under pasture
• Plant-parasitic nematodes on pasture in New Zealand
• Elaeolenchus parthenonema n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Sphaerularioidea: Anandranematidae n. fam.) parasitic in the palm-pollinating weevil Elaeidobius kamerunicus Faust, with a phylogenetic synopsis of the Sphaerularioidea Lubbock, 1861
• Non-target effects of a carbamate and the proteins avidin and aprotinin on in vitro development of a bacterial feeding nematode
• Pasture renewal on Bay of Plenty and Waikato dairy farms: Impacts on pasture performance post-establishment
• Microbial and nematode communities associated with potatoes genetically modified to express the antimicrobial peptide magainin and unmodified potato cultivars
• Transportation of nonindigenous species via soil on international aircraft passengers' footwear
• Biodiversity of indigenous tussock grassland sites in Otago, Canterbury and the Central North Island of New Zealand VI. Coleoptera biodiversity, community structure, exotic species invasion, and the effect of disturbance by agricultural development
• Optimising the Whitehead and Hemming tray method to extract plant parasitic and other nematodes from two soils under pasture
• Population dynamics of Paratylenchus nanus in soil under pasture: 2. Biotic factors and population modelling
• Effects of plant-parasitic nematodes and rhizosphere microorganisms on the growth of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)
• Population dynamics of Paratylenchus nanus in soil under pasture: 1. Aggregation and abiotic factors
• Suppression of plant parasitic nematodes in pastoral soils amended with chitin
• The potential of entomopathogenic nematodes as biocontrol agents for clover root weevil (Sitona lepidus)
• Insect pests associated with white and Caucasian clover in a Bay of Plenty dairy pasture
• Seedling growth of nine white clover cultivars after invasion by clover nematodes
• Plant-parasitic nematodes associated with perennial ryegrass and tall fescue with and without Acremonium endophyte
• Caucasian clover as a pasture legume for dryland dairying in the coastal Bay of Plenty
• Caucasian clover for improving summer production in northern regions of New Zealand
• Caucasian clover performance in a year of severe drought
• Pest populations during the first six years in ryegrass pastures containing white or Caucasian clover
• The effects of the endophytic fungus Acremonium starii on feeding and oviposition of the Argentine stem weevil
• Defining the biosecurity risk posed by soil found on sea freight