Coffee leaf rust spread and tipping points

I applied a tipping point indicator from engineering to understand the spatiotemporal dynamics of annual resurgences of the coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix) in a Mexican farm (Li et al. 2022, Sci Rep).

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