Heterobasidion annosum sensu lato is a species complex comprising five species that are
widely distributed in coniferous forests of the Northern Hemisphere and are each …

The choice of tree species used in production forests matters for biodiversity and ecosystem
services. In Sweden, damage to young production forests by large browsing herbivores is …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

Decomposition of coarse woody debris (CWD), be it naturally occurring or resulting from
forestry activity, begins long before it hits the ground. Obvious and well-known examples of …

The root and butt rot caused by Heterobasidon annosum is one of the most destructive
diseases of conifers in the northern temperate regions of the world, particularly in Europe …

The objective of this review is to provide a synthesis of speciation theory, of what is known
about mechanisms of speciation in fungi and from this, what is expected, and of ideas on …

Plant communities commonly have both host diversity and biotic diseases (Kimmins 1997a;
Roy and Kirchner 2000), but to differing degrees. Disease and diversity are classically …

It was recently reported that North American (NA) individuals of the forest pathogen
Heterobasidion annosum were found in a single pine stand near Rome, in association with …

We investigated two hypotheses for the origin of the root rot fungus Heterobasidion
annosum species complex:(i) that geology has been an important factor for the speciation (ii) …

The dense single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) panels needed for genome wide
association (GWA) studies have hitherto been expensive to establish and use on non-model …