Highlights•Climate change is altering the distributions and impacts of plant pests and
diseases.•Observational data, predictive models and experimental manipulations are used …

Plant pathology has developed a wide range of concepts and tools for improving plant
disease management, including models for understanding and responding to new risks from …

Disease in wild plant populations has received less attention from plant pathologists than
diseases of managed plants in agriculture, horticulture, and plantation forestry. Plant …

Ultrafast radiographic imaging and tracking (U-RadIT) use state-of-the-art ionizing particle
and light sources to experimentally study sub-nanosecond transients or dynamic processes …

Comprehending ecological dynamics requires not only knowledge of modern communities
but also detailed reconstructions of ecosystem history. Ancient DNA (aDNA) metabarcoding …

In the two decades or so since ancient sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA) took its place as a new
Quaternary paleo-proxy, there have been large advances in the scope of its applications …

Biotechnological advances now permit broad exploration of past microbial communities
preserved in diverse substrates. Despite biomolecular degradation, high-throughput …

Fossil rodent middens are powerful tools in paleoecology. In arid parts of western North
America, packrat (Neotoma spp.) middens preserve plant and animal remains for tens of …

Threatened animal taxa are often absent from most of their original habitats, meaning their
ecological niche cannot be fully captured by contemporary data alone. Although DNA …

Rodent middens provide a fine-scale spatiotemporal record of plant and animal
communities over the late Quaternary. In the Americas, middens have offered insight into …