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 …

Deforestation and associated changing landscapes are major components of environmental
changes, with important implications for ecosystem functioning and biodiversity …

Forest ecosystems have been increasingly affected by a variety of disturbances, including
emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), causing extensive tree mortality in the Western United …

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 …

The challenges posed by observing host–pathogen–environment interactions across large
geographic extents and over meaningful time scales limit our ability to understand and …

Globally, invasive forest pests and pathogens kill millions of trees every year, triggering the
long-term restructuring of forest ecosystems and how they function. These impacts can be far …

Accelerated forest dieback has been documented at many locations around the world that
have experienced severe drought, warming, and wildfires associated with global climate …

Forest pathology inherently involves a landscape perspective, because tree pathogens
propagate according to heterogeneous spatial patterns of flow and isolation. Landscape …

Pathogens and insect pests are important drivers of tree mortality and forest dynamics, but
global change has rapidly altered or intensified their impacts. Predictive understanding of …

A central challenge to studying emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is a landscape
dilemma: Our best empirical understanding of disease dynamics occurs at local scales …