Common Factors Drive Disease and Coarse Woody Debris Dynamics in Forests Impacted by Sudden Oak Death

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-255

  Cobb, Richard C ^a   Chan, Maggie N ^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

coarse woody debris; decomposition; disease ecology; emerging infectious disease; Phytophthora ramorum; tanoak

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; DICOTYLEDON; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; HOME RANGE; INFECTIVITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; STAND STRUCTURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

LAURUS NOBILIS; LITHOCARPUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA;

EID: 84857790248     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9506-y     Document Type: Article

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