Live plant imports: The major pathway for forest insect and pathogen invasions of the US

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 135-143

  Liebhold, Andrew M ^a   Brockerhoff, Eckehard G ^b   Garrett, Lynn J ^c   Parke, Jennifer L ^d   Britton, Kerry O ^e  

^a NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HOST PLANT; INSECT; MITIGATION; PARASITE INFESTATION; PATHOGEN; PEST DAMAGE; REGULATORY APPROACH;

UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84859308025     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/110198     Document Type: Review

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