Current health issues and management strategies for white pines in the western United States and Canada

Forest Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 226-250

  Schwandt, J W ^a   Lockman, I B ^a   Kliejunas, J T ^a   Muir, J A ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DAMAGE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST HEALTH; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ORCHARD; PEST OUTBREAK; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RUST DISEASE; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SURVIVAL; VIABILITY;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA; HEXAPODA; PINUS LAMBERTIANA; PINUS MONTICOLA; PINUS MUGO; RIBES; RIBES HUDSONIANUM;

EID: 77955596337     PISSN: 14374781     EISSN: 14390329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0329.2010.00656.x     Document Type: Review

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