Precision and accuracy of pest and pathogen damage assessment in young eucalypt plantations

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 111, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 243-256

  Smith, Anna H ^a,b,d   Pinkard, E A ^b,d   Stone, C ^c   Battaglia, M ^a,b   Mohammed, C L ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CRC for Sustainable Production Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^c State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Crown damage index; Defoliation; Discoloration; Disease; Eucalyptus globulus; Foliar necrosis; Forest health; Insect pests; Mycosphaerella

Indexed keywords

DISCOLORATION; DISEASES; FORESTRY; FUNGI; PEST CONTROL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TISSUE;

CROWN DAMAGE INDEX; EUCALYPT PLANTATIONS; FOLIAR NECROSIS; FOREST HEALTH; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; MYCOSPHAERELLA;

HARDWOODS;

CROP DAMAGE; DEFOLIATION; INDEX METHOD; PEST DAMAGE; PLANTATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEFOLIATION; DROUGHT; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGUS; INSECT; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DAMAGE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANTATION; RELIABILITY; TREE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; HUMANS; INSECTS; NECROSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

DEFOLIATION; DISCOLORATION; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FOREST PATHOLOGY; FORESTRY; INSECTS; PATHOGENS; PESTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT TISSUES; PLANTATIONS;

AVES; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MYCOSPHAERELLA;

EID: 29444436337     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.52.4.243     Document Type: Article

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