Fifty Years of Tree Pest and Pathogen Invasions, Increasingly Threatening World Forests

Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 89-99

  Wingfield, Michael J ^a   Slippers, Bernard ^a   Roux, Jolanda ^a   Wingfield, Brenda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Changing systems; Charles Elton's 1958 book The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants first comprehensive treatment of topic; Chestnut blight and gypsy moth recognized as invasive alien species 100 years ago; Fifty years of tree pest and pathogen invasions threatening world forests; Knowledge of pathways of movement of pathogens reducing introduction into new environments; Optimism about our capacity reducing threat, every effort must be made to do so; Problems, associated with identification and detection; Trees, dichotomy in terms of environments in which they occur

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EID: 79961139399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444329988.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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