Like all other plants, trees are vulnerable to attack by a multitude of pests and pathogens.
Current control measures for many of these diseases are limited and relatively ineffective …

Forest declines are well-studied phenomena. However, recent patterns suggest that the
traditional sequence of events and factors involved in forest decline are changing. Several …

Quercus robur L.,(pedunculate oak) and Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.,(sessile oak) are
common broadleaved tree species in Europe, found from Scandinavia to the Iberian …

Five commercial tree species comprise nearly 80% of the forest standing stock volume in
Western Europe. Nowadays, there is a strong need to consider a wider diversity of tree …

Decline-diseases are complex and becoming increasingly problematic to tree health
globally. Acute Oak Decline (AOD) is characterized by necrotic stem lesions and galleries of …

The increasing number of invasive pests and pathogens entering North America and Europe
indicate that the threat which they pose to forests is increasing concurrently with climate …

Plants are functional macrobes living in a close association with diverse communities of
microbes and viruses as complex systems that continuously interact with the surrounding …

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

Oak decline presenting symptoms of tracheomycosis have been observed globally over long
periods of time. Since the 1990s, oak decline has been considered to be a multifactorial …

In recent years, the oak lace bug, Corythucha arcuata, has emerged as a significant threat to
European oak forests. This species, native to North America, has in the last two decades …