Challenges in predicting invasive reservoir hosts of emerging pathogens: Mapping Rhododendron ponticum as a foliar host for Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae in the UK

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 529-545

  Purse, Bethan V ^a   Graeser, Philipp ^a   Searle, Kate ^a   Edwards, Colin ^b   Harris, Catriona ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Forest Management Division   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Invasive species management; Maximum entropy modelling, Rhododendron ponticum; Phytophthora kernoviae; Phytophthora ramorum; Species distribution model; Sudden Oak death; Woodland management

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNGUS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HEATHLAND; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAPPING; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

LARIX; LARIX KAEMPFERI; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA KERNOVIAE; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON PONTICUM;

EID: 84874238604     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0305-y     Document Type: Article

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