Apparent competition in canopy trees determined by pathogen transmission rather than susceptibility

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 327-333

  Cobb, Richard C ^a   Meentemeyer, Ross K ^b   Rizzo, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Community epidemiology; Disease ecology; Emerging infectious disease; Forest pathogens; Lithocarpus densiflorus; Phytophthora ramorum; Quercus spp.; Sequoia sempervirens; Sudden oak death; Umbellularia californica

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST CANOPY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; PATH ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY;

ARTICLE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASE; TIME; TREE;

HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

LAURUS NOBILIS; LITHOCARPUS; LITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; QUERCUS; SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS; UMBELLULARIA; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA;

EID: 77949284497     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0680.1     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Alexander, H. M., and R. D. Holt. 1998. The interaction between plant competition and disease. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 1/2:206-220.
2. Anacker, B. L., N. E. Rank, D. Hüberli, M. Garbelotto, S. Gordon, T. Harnik, R. Whitkus, and R. K. Meentemeyer. 2008. Susceptibility to Phytophthora ramorum in a key infectious host: landscape variation in host genotype, host phenotype, and environmental factors. New Phytologist 177: 756-766.
3. Begon, M., R. G. Bowers, N. Kadianakis, and D. E. Hodgkinson. 1992. Disease and community structure: the importance of host self-regulation in a host-host-pathogen model. American Naturalist 139:1131-1150.
4. Bond, W. J., and J. J. Midgley. 2001. Ecology of sprouting in woody plants: the persistence niche. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:45-51.
5. Borer, E. T., P. R. Hosseini, E. W. Seabloom, and A. P. Dobson. 2007. Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104:5473-5478.
6. Brown, D. H., and A. Hastings. 2003. Resistance may be futile: dispersal scales and selection for disease resistance in competing plants. Journal of Theoretical Biology 222:373-388.
7. Burdon, J. J., P. H. Thrall, and L. Ericson. 2006. The current and future dynamics of disease in plant communities. Annual Review of Phytopathology 44:19-39. (Pubitemid 44435696)
8. Davidson, J. M., H. Patterson, and D. M. Rizzo. 2008. Sources of inoculum for Phytophthora ramorum in a redwood forest. Phytopathology 98:860-866.
9. Davidson, J. M., A. C. Wickland, H. A. Patterson, K. R. Falk, and D. M. Rizzo. 2005. Transmission and Phytophthora ramorum in mixed-evergreen forest in California. Phytopathology 95:587-596.
10. DiLio, M. V., R. M. Bostock, and D. M. Rizzo. 2009. Phytophthora ramorum does not cause physiologicallysignificant systemic injury to California bay laurel, its primary reservoir host. Phytopathology 99:1307-1311.
11. Gilbert, G. S. 2002. Evolutionary ecology of plant diseases in natural ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 40:13-43. (Pubitemid 35235574)
12. Gilligan, C. A. 2002. An epidemiological framework for disease management. Advances in Botanical Research 38:1-64.
13. Gilligan, C. A., and F. van den Bosch. 2008. Epidemiological models for invasion and persistence of pathogens. Annual Review of Phytopathology 46:385-418.
14. Gubbins, S., C. A. Gilligan, and A. Kleczkowski. 2000. Population dynamics of plant-parasite interactions: thresholds for invasion. Theoretical Population Biology 57:219-233. (Pubitemid 30369056)
15. Holt, R. D. 1977. Predation, apparent competition, and the structure of prey communities. Theoretical Population Biology 12:197-229.
16. Hunter, J. C., and M. G. Barbour. 2001. Through-growth by Pseudotsuga menziesii: a mechanism for change in forest composition without canopy gaps. Journal of Vegetation Science 12:445-452.
17. Kohyama,T.1993.Size-structuredtreepopulationsingapdynamicforest- theforestarchitecturehypothesisforthestablecoexistenceofspecies. JournalofEcology81:131-143.(Pubitemid23403529)
18. Krebs, C. J. 1999. Ecological methodology. Second edition. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA.
19. LoGiudice, K., R. S. Ostfeld, K. A. Schmidt, and F. Keesing. 2003. The ecology of infectious disease: effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 100: 567-571. (Pubitemid 36126092)
20. Maloney, P. E., S. Lynch, S. Kane, C. E. Jensen, and D. M. Rizzo. 2005. Establishment of an emerging generalist pathogen in redwood forest communities. Journal of Ecology 93:899-905.
21. Mascheretti, S., P. J. P. Croucher, A. Vettraino, S. Prospero, and M. Garbelotto. 2008. Reconstruction of the SOD epidemic in California through microsatellite analysis of the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. Molecular Ecology 17: 2755-2768.
22. Meentemeyer, R. K., B. L. Anacker, W. Mark, and D. M. Rizzo. 2008a. Early detection of emerging forest disease using dispersal estimation and ecological niche modeling. Ecological Applications 18:377-390.
23. Meentemeyer, R. K., N. E. Rank, B. L. Anacker, D. M. Rizzo, and J. H. Cushman. 2008b. Influence of land-cover change on the spread of an invasive forest pathogen. Ecological Applications 18:159-171.
24. Ostfeld, R. S., and F. Keesing. 2000. Biodiversity and disease risk: the case of Lyme disease. Conservation Biology 14:722728.
25. Otten,W.,J.A.N.Filipe,andC.A.Gilligan.2005.Dampingoffepidemics, contactstructure,anddiseasetransmissioninmixed-speciespopulations.Ecology86: 1948-1957.(Pubitemid40938796)
26. Paillet, F. L. 2002. Chestnut: history and ecology of a transformed species. Journal of Biogeography 29:1517-1530.
27. Power, A. G., and C. E. Mitchell. 2004. Pathogen spillover in disease epidemics. American Naturalist 164:S79-S89.
28. R Development Core Team. 2008. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
29. Rizzo, D. M., and M. Garbelotto. 2003. Sudden oak death endangering California and Oregon forest ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:197-204.
30. Rizzo, D. M., M. Garbelotto, and E. M. Hansen. 2005. Phytophthora ramorum: integrative research and management of an emerging pathogen in California and Oregon forests. Annual Review of Phytopathology 43:309-335.
31. SAS Institute. 2007. JMP user's guide. SAS, Cary, North Carolina, USA.
32. Shipley, B. 2009. Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel context. Ecology 90:363-368.
33. Tappeiner, J. C., and P. M. McDonald. 1984. Development of tanoak understories in conifer stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 14:271-277.
34. Thomas, D. W., B. Shipley, J. Blondel, P. Perret, A. Simon, and M. M. Lambrechts. 2007. Common paths link food abundance and ectoparasite loads to physiological performance and recruitment in nestling Blue Tits. Functional Ecology 21:947-955.