Established and new technologies reduce increasing pest and pathogen threats to Eucalypt plantations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 301, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-42

  Wingfield, Michael J ^a   Roux, Jolanda ^a   Slippers, Bernard ^a   Hurley, Brett P ^a   Garnas, Jeff ^a   Myburg, Alexander A ^a   Wingfield, Brenda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Diseases; DNA techniques; Eucalyptus; Genetics; Insects; Invasion biology

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPT PLANTATIONS; EUCALYPTUS; GENETICS; INSECTS; INVESTMENT IN TECHNOLOGY; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASES; FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

PATHOGENS;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA; EVERGREEN TREE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYBRID; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVESTMENT; PEST SPECIES; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUSTAINABILITY; TREE PLANTING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

DISEASES; EUCALYPTUS; INSECTS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PATHOGENS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

EUCALYPTUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84878112280     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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