Relationships among beech bark disease, climate, radial growth response and mortality of American beech in northern Maine, USA

Forest Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 199-212

  Kasson, M T ^a   Livingston, W H ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INFECTIVITY; INSECT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORTALITY; STAND DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL; WINTER;

CANADA; MAINE; QUEBEC [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

CRYPTOCOCCUS FAGISUGA; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; NEONECTRIA;

EID: 84862245786     PISSN: 14374781     EISSN: 14390329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0329.2011.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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