Eucalypt pests and diseases: Growing threats to plantation productivity

Southern Forests

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-144

  Wingfield, M J ^a   Slippers, B ^a   Hurley, B P ^a   Coutinho, T A ^a   Wingfield, B D ^a   Roux, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Enemy escape; Host jumps; Invasives; Plantation health; Tree diseases; Tree pathogens; Tree pests

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 57149108025     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/SOUTH.FOR.2008.70.2.9.537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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