Biological invasions in forest ecosystems

AM Liebhold, EG Brockerhoff, S Kalisz, MA Nuñez… - Biological …, 2017 - Springer
Forests play critical roles in global ecosystem processes and provide numerous services to
society. But forests are increasingly affected by a variety of human influences, especially …

Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change

G Moreau, C Chagnon, A Achim, J Caspersen… - Forestry, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We reviewed recent literature to identify the positive and negative effects of thinning on both
stand-and tree-level resistance and resilience to four stressors that are expected to increase …

Invasion frameworks: A forest pathogen perspective

T Paap, MJ Wingfield, TI Burgess, JRU Wilson… - Current Forestry …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Within the discipline of invasion science, researchers studying
different taxonomic groups have developed distinct ways of investigating the phenomenon …

Pathologists and entomologists must join forces against forest pest and pathogen invasions

H Jactel, ML Desprez-Loustau, A Battisti… - …, 2020 - pureportal.coventry.ac.uk
The world's forests have never been more threatened by invasions of exotic pests and
pathogens, whose causes and impacts are reinforced by global change. However, forest …

Approaches to forecasting damage by invasive forest insects and pathogens: a cross-assessment

KF Raffa, EG Brockerhoff, JC Grégoire, RC Hamelin… - Bioscience, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nonnative insects and pathogens pose major threats to forest ecosystems worldwide,
greatly diminishing the ecosystem services trees provide. Given the high global diversity of …

Ecology of invasive forest pathogens

L Ghelardini, N Luchi, F Pecori, AL Pepori, R Danti… - Biological …, 2017 - Springer
Invasive forest pathogens are a major threat to forests worldwide, causing increasing
damage. The knowledge of both the specific traits underlying the capacity of a pathogen to …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen science can enhance strategies to detect and manage invasive forest pests and pathogens

JM Hulbert, RA Hallett, HE Roy… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Incorporating a citizen science approach into biological invasion management strategies
can enhance biosecurity. Many citizen science projects exist to strengthen the management …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of forest management options on forest resilience to pathogens

M Roberts, CA Gilligan, A Kleczkowski… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Invasive pathogens threaten the ability of forests globally to produce a range of valuable
ecosystem services over time. However, the ability to detect such pathogen invasions—and …

Alien and cryptogenic fungi and oomycetes in Austria: an annotated checklist

H Voglmayr, A Schertler, F Essl, I Krisai-Greilhuber - Biological Invasions, 2023 - Springer
Fungal invasions can have far-reaching consequences, and despite increasing relevance,
fungi are notoriously underrepresented in invasion science. Here, we present the second …

Harmonising the fields of invasion science and forest pathology

T Paap, MJ Wingfield, TI Burgess, JM Hulbert, A Santini - 2020 - repository.up.ac.za
Invasive alien species are widely recognised as significant drivers of global environmental
change, with far reaching ecological and socio-economic impacts. The trend of continuous …