Biodiversity losses: The downward spiral

By Diana F. Tomback, K. Kendall. 2001

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Proactive intervention to sustain high-elevation pine ecosystems threatened by white pine blister rust (2007, background): “These whitebark and limber pine forests have been challenged by WPBR for over 50 years and the impacts have been extensive and far reaching with cascading effects on ecosystem function and biodiversity (Tomback and Kendell 2001).”
Impact of sudden oak death on tree mortality in the Big Sur ecoregion of California (2008, background): “Chestnut blight, white pine blister rust, and jarrah dieback are well-known diseases that illustrate impacts invasive pathogens can have on natural communities through the loss of dominant tree species (Anagnostakis 1987; Weste and Marks 1987; Tomback and Kendall 2001).”
Whitebark pine and white pine blister rust in the Rocky Mountains of Canada and northern Montana (2008, background): “The northern Rocky Mountain distribution of whitebark pine is in peril, and the wildlife and vegetation communities that depend on whitebark pine is threatened by the loss of this keystone species, which could trigger a trophic cascade with resultant losses of entire community types and compromised ”