Unexpected redwood mortality from synergies between wildfire and an emerging infectious disease

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2152-2159

  Metz, Margaret R ^a   Varner, J Morgan ^b   Frangioso, Kerri M ^a   Meentemeyer, Ross K ^c   Rizzo, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Global change; Interacting disturbances; Phytophthora ramorum; Sequoia sempervirens; Sudden oak death; Synergy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LAND USE CHANGE; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN; SUCCESSION; SYNERGISM; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASE; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; FIRES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 84886568338     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0915.1     Document Type: Article

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