Do water-limiting conditions predispose Norway spruce to bark beetle attack?

New Phytologist

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1128-1141

  Netherer, Sigrid ^a   Matthews, Bradley ^a   Katzensteiner, Klaus ^a   Blackwell, Emma ^a   Henschke, Patrick ^a   Hietz, Peter ^a   Pennerstorfer, Josef ^a   Rosner, Sabine ^a   Kikuta, Silvia ^a   Schume, Helmut ^a   Schopf, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate change; Defence capability; Drought stress; Host acceptance; Ips typographus; Norway spruce (Picea abies); Predisposition; Tree physiology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; TREE; WATER STRESS;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE;

SOIL; WATER;

ANIMAL; AUSTRIA; BARK; BEETLE; CLIMATE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DROUGHT; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SOIL; SPRUCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BEETLES; CLIMATE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DROUGHTS; LINEAR MODELS; PICEA; PLANT BARK; PLANT DISEASES; SOIL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREES; WATER; WEATHER;

EID: 84920972618     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13166     Document Type: Article

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