Autologistic model in the study of spatial patterns in citrus diseases / Modelo autologístico no estudo de padrões espaciais em doenças de citros

AUTOR(ES)

Luziane Franciscon

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The citrus industry is a major agricultural activity in Brazil and the state of Sao Paulo concentrates the largest production area of oranges in the world. The knowledge of incidence patterns of citrus diseases in time and space is relevant to the industry and allows the description of the dynamics of these diseases and may indicate strategies for epidemics control. In this work are considered two diseases that affect the cultivation of citrus, leprosis and citrus sudden death using data from the tracking of stands. An important point when studying diseases such as the citrus leprosis, considered a serious viral disease in the Brazilian citrus industry, is the investigation of the spatial pattern and temporal effects of the disease incidence within a stand. Exploratory methods to determine if the spatial pattern is or not added are frequently used. However it is possible to explore and describe the data adopting an explicit model, allowing to discriminate and quantify the effects through parameters for covariates that represent aspects of interest. To implement this model is necessary to reuse the data in order to extract spatial covariates, which requires extensions in the methodology and algorithms to assess properly the variance of estimates. In this work, the autologistic model is used in the analysis of diseases incidence data in citrus plants collected in points referenced in space and time in a stand. It is shown how the autologistic model is appropriate to investigate such diseases, and there is a description of the model and computational aspects needed to estimate the model. Thus it is possible to achieve objective assessments of the effects of the factors considered on the incidence of the disease through the estimated parameters of the proposed model and quantify the disease presence effects in different neighborhood structures. The modeling of the data has identified a spatial dependence between the plants and the adopted model allowed to quantify the changes in the probability of disease according to the status of the plants in the neighbourhood. The methodology presented here is not restricted to the cultivation of citrus. It can be used in the assessment of spatial-temporal patterns and effects of factors that affect the diseases in plants under similar conditions.

ASSUNTO(S)

verossimilhança doenças de plantas pseudo-likelihood citrus diseases spatial statistics estatísticas espaciais frutas cítricas

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