Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7393, 2012, Pages 186-194

  Fisher, Matthew C ^a   Henk, Daniel A ^a   Briggs, Cheryl J ^b   Brownstein, John S ^c   Madoff, Lawrence C ^d   McCraw, Sarah L ^e   Gurr, Sarah J ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LANDSCAPE; PLANT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD SECURITY; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD SUPPLY; FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PLANTS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84859573451     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10947     Document Type: Review

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