Natural and managed forests are challenged with a multitude of disturbances caused by, eg,
storm, frost, drought, fire, pests, and pathogens. Changed weather, global trade, and new …

Increasing human impacts on forests, including unintentional movement of pathogens,
climate change, and large-scale intensive plantations, are associated with an …

Emerging infectious diseases of trees are a type of biotic invasion that pose a dire threat to
the world's forest ecosystems. In temperate forest environments, tree diseases exacerbate …

Forest Microbiology, Volume Two: Forest Tree Health highlights a range of emerging
microbial phytopathogens of forest trees, along with novel approaches for managing tree …

Anthropocene marks the era when human activity is making a significant impact on earth, its
ecological and biogeographical systems. The domestication and intensification of …

Humankind owes much to trees, given their major role in sequestering carbon and providing
oxygen, sugars and much of the energy on which ourselves and terrestrial ecosystems …

Today, forests in Europe and the rest of the world are threatened, as never before in history,
by invasive forest pathogens, whose rate of establishment and spread has never been …

Plant pathogenic fungi and fungus-like taxa (oomycetes) form part of the ecological makeup
of healthy natural forest ecosystems. Some help to eliminate unhealthy trees, while others …

Human‐caused changes in land use and land cover have dramatically altered ecosystems
worldwide and may facilitate the spread of infectious diseases. To address this issue, we …