Climate change and plant disease management

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue , 1999, Pages 399-426

  Coakley, Stella Melugin ^a   Scherm, Harald ^b   Chakraborty, Sukumar ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Epidemiological models; Global warming; Host pathogen interactions; Risk and impact assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032694665     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.37.1.399     Document Type: Article

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