The intertwined problems of wildfire, forest disease, and climate change interactions

RC Cobb - Current Forestry Reports, 2022 - Springer
Purpose of Review I aim to contextualize wildfire-disease interactions with the goal of
building a better understanding of where these may be of ecological importance and …

The Magnitude of Regional‐Scale Tree Mortality Caused by the Invasive Pathogen Phytophthora ramorum

RC Cobb, SE Haas, N Kruskamp, WW Dillon… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forest pathogens are important drivers of tree mortality across the globe, but it is
exceptionally challenging to gather and build unbiased quantitative models of their impacts …

Phytophthora pathogens threaten rare habitats and conservation plantings

SJ Frankel, J Alexander, D Benner… - … Journal of Botanic …, 2020 - journals.rbge.org.uk
Phytophthora pathogens are damaging native wildland vegetation including plants in
restoration areas and botanic gardens. The infestations threaten some plants already …

Applying optimal control theory to a spatial simulation model of sudden oak death: ongoing surveillance protects tanoak while conserving biodiversity

EH Bussell, NJ Cunniffe - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sudden oak death has devastated tree populations across California. However,
management might still slow disease spread at local scales. We demonstrate how to …

An experimental comparison of stand management approaches to sudden oak death: prevention vs. restoration

GB Quiroga, AB Simler-Williamson… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Many coastal forests stretching from central California to southwest Oregon are threatened
or have been impacted by the invasive forest pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of …

Phytophthora ramorum foliar infection reduces leaf-level productivity in tanoak and california bay: a pilot study from redwood national park

WC Weinberg, JR Suoja, LP Kerhoulas, RJ Maberry… - Madroño, 2021 - BioOne
Woody plant infections of the pathogenic oomycete Phytophthora ramorum Werres, DeCock,
& Manin'tVeld have brought an uncertainty to the future of western forests. Two understory …

Prediction and analysis of the potential risk of sudden oak death in China

B Xie, C Cao, W Chen, B Yu - Journal of forestry research, 2019 - Springer
Sudden oak death (SOD) is one of the most rapid and destructive forest pathogens, which
has caused the death of many host plants in Europe and America. There are currently no …

Forest community structure and composition following containment treatments for the fungal pathogen oak wilt

SR Abella, LRA Sprow, TW Walters, TA Schetter - Biological Invasions, 2021 - Springer
In temperate oak forests in Ohio, USA, we examined variability in forest communities within
containment treatment sites for oak wilt (Bretziella fagacearum), a fungal pathogen lethal to …

Epidemic Dynamics of Sudden Oak Death in the Forests of Oregon

A Carson - 2022 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Abstract Sudden Oak Death (SOD) is a forest disease caused by the oomycete pathogen
Phytophthora ramorum, and infects trees in the Western United States and Europe. This …

Ongoing surveillance protects tanoak whilst conserving biodiversity: applying optimal control theory to a spatial simulation model of sudden oak death

EH Bussell, NJ Cunniffe - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The sudden oak death epidemic in California is spreading uncontrollably. Large-scale
eradication has been impossible for some time. However, small-scale disease management …