Resilience of forests to pathogens: An evolutionary ecology perspective
By R. Ennos. 2015
125 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Both natural and managed forests are currently suffering from increases in damage by pathogens. Here, an evolutionary ecology approach is adopted to analyse the factors that influence the levels of pathogen damage experienced by forest tree populations and consider the conditions under which stable co-existence of trees and pathogens occurs in natural populations. The demographic and genetic responses of tree–pathogen systems to anthropogenic perturbations are explored to identify where the greatest threats to resilience lie. Problems caused by native pathogens are likely to arise as a consequence both of rapid climate change and of forest management practices that lead to increases in species density, drastic reductions in genetic diversity and planting outside the native range. The most serious threats to forest trees are posed by introduction of exotic pathogens derived from related exotic tree species. Recovery following spread of exotic pathogens is likely to be both slow and uncertain and may not be possible without intensive programmes involving rapid selection and widespread dissemination of genotypes resistant to the exotic pathogen.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3cacbb3438ba523d06988c13ee10e8f9ac352637
Citations in the corpus
- An evolutionary ecology perspective to address forest pathology challenges of today and tomorrow (2016, unknown): “…mechanisms therefore exert a selection pressure on pathogen populations, the strength of which depends, on the plant side, on the level of resistance (from partial to complete) and the spatial scale of the deployment of resistant genotypes (McDonald and Linde 2002; REX Consortium 2013; Ennos 2015).”
- Mix and match: regional admixture provenancing strikes a balance among different seed-sourcing strategies for ecological restoration (2018, unknown): “Unfortunately, as discussed above, the direct evidence that predictive provenancing will indeed have the desired effect is limited, probably because plants are adapted not only to climate, but also to other aspects of the environment (Ennos 2015; Kranabetter et al.”