An Experimental Test of Insect-Mediated Colonisation of Damaged Pinus radiata Trees by Sapstain Fungi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  McCarthy, James K ^a,b   Brockerhoff, Eckehard G ^a,b   Didham, Raphael K ^b,c,d  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BARK; BEETLE; DIPLODIA PINEA; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PINE; PINUS RADIATA; PLANT DAMAGE; PLANTATION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; SAPSTAIN; WIND; WOOD;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FUNGI; PINUS; PLANT BARK; TREES;

EID: 84873528180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055692     Document Type: Article

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