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Plant dieback under exceptional drought driven by elevation, not by plant traits, in Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA [PDF]

PeerJ, 2014
In 2011, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA, experienced the most severe single year drought in its recorded history, resulting in significant plant mortality.
Elizabeth F. Waring, Dylan W. Schwilk
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New Records of Canker-Causing Pathogens of Acacia spp. and Pithecellobium dulce in Southern Italy [PDF]

Journal of Fungi
Surveys conducted in a nursery located in eastern Sicily, southern Italy, revealed the presence of plants of Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia arabica), V. farnesiana (syn. A. farnesiana) and Pithecellobium dulce showing symptoms of trunk and branch canker,
Giuseppa Rosaria Leonardi, Laura Vecchio, Giorgio Gusella, Dalia Aiello, Hermann Voglmayr, Giancarlo Polizzi   +5 more
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Control of Vascular Streak Dieback Disease of Cocoa with Flutriafol Fungicides [PDF]

Coffee and Cocoa Research Journal, 2014
Vascular streak dieback caused by the fungus Oncobasidium theobromae is one of the important diseases in cocoa crop in Indonesia. One approach to control the disease is by using fungicides.
Febrilia Nur'aini
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Land cover changes, biomass loss, and predictive causes of massive dieback of a mangrove plantation in Lampung, Sumatra

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
A new massive dieback case of Avicennia marina was observed in the area of the Sunda Strait, which started in 2020, and the cause is still unknown. This research was conducted to report the rate of mangrove degradation, measure biomass loss, and predict ...
Budiadi Budiadi, Ambar Pertiwiningrum, Lina Dwi Lestari, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Boy Andreas Marpaung, Sigit Prasetyo   +5 more
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Phylogenomics resolves the etiology of dieback disease and deciphers Ceratocystis dalbergicans sp.nov., causal agent of Dalbergia sissoo decline

Frontiers in Genetics, 2023
Dalbergia sissoo is one of the most economically important trees in forestry, agroforestry, and horticulture. This tree species is severely threatened by dieback.
Imran Ul Haq, Siddra Ijaz, Muhammad Zunair Latif, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Hayssam M. Ali, Sukhwinder Kaur   +5 more
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The effects of prolonged drought on vegetation dieback and megafires in southern California chaparral

Ecosphere, 2022
Drought contributed to extensive dieback of southern California chaparral, and normalized difference vegetation index before drought and near the end of the drought was used to estimate this dieback, after accounting for other disturbances recorded in ...
Jon E. Keeley, Teresa J. Brennan, Alexandra D. Syphard   +2 more
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Faidherbia albida (Delile) Tree Dieback Effects on Crop Production in the Parkland Agroforests of Southwestern Niger

International Journal of Forestry Research, 2021
Faidherbiaalbida is an agroforestry tree species playing important agroecological and socioeconomic roles in arid and semiarid zones in Africa. For many years, anthropogenic and abiotic stresses were considered as the main threats for the species in West
Abasse Tougiani, Moussa Massaoudou, Adamou Haougui, Amadou Laouali, John C. Weber   +4 more
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Multiscale Diagnosis of Mangrove Status in Data-Poor Context Using Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images: A Case Study in Pichavaram Mangrove Forest, Tamil Nadu, India

Remote Sensing, 2022
Highlighting spatiotemporal changes occurring within mangrove habitats at the finest possible scale could contribute fundamental knowledge and data for local sustainable management.
Shuvankar Ghosh, Christophe Proisy, Gowrappan Muthusankar, Christiane Hassenrück, Véronique Helfer, Raphaël Mathevet, Julien Andrieu, Natesan Balachandran, Rajendran Narendran   +8 more
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A New Disease for Europe of Ficus microcarpa Caused by Botryosphaeriaceae Species

Plants, 2022
The Indian laurel-leaf fig (Ficus microcarpa) is an important ornamental tree widely distributed in the urban areas of Italy. Surveys conducted in 2019 and 2020 on several tree-lined streets, squares, and public parks in Catania and Siracusa provinces ...
Alberto Fiorenza, Dalia Aiello, Mariangela Benedetta Costanzo, Giorgio Gusella, Giancarlo Polizzi   +4 more
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Identifying marsh dieback events from Landsat image series (1998–2018) with an Autoencoder in the NIWB estuary, South Carolina

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
This study reports an inventory of marsh dieback events from spatial and temporal perspectives in the North Inlet-Winyah Bay (NIWB) estuary, South Carolina (SC).
Huixuan Li, Cuizhen Wang, Jean T. Ellis, Yuxin Cui, Gwen Miller, James T. Morris   +5 more
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