Nonlinear shifts in infectious rust disease due to climate change

Climate change is expected to have major impacts on forest tree diseases. Here the authors analyse long-term data of white pine blister rust in the southern Sierra Nevada, finding evidence of climate change-driven disease range expansion that was mediated by spatially varying host-pathogen-drought i...

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Main Authors: Joan Dudney, Claire E. Willing, Adrian J. Das, Andrew M. Latimer, Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, John J. Battles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25182-6