Nonlinear shifts in infectious rust disease due to climate change

Joan Dudney; Claire E. Willing; Adrian J. Das; Andrew M. Latimer; Jonathan C. B. Nesmith; John J. Battles

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25182-6

Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Nonlinear shifts in infectious rust disease due to climate change

Joan Dudney,
Claire E. Willing,
Adrian J. Das,
Andrew M. Latimer,
Jonathan C. B. Nesmith,
John J. Battles

Affiliations

Joan Dudney: Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Claire E. Willing: Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Adrian J. Das: U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
Andrew M. Latimer: Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Jonathan C. B. Nesmith: Sierra Nevada Network Inventory & Monitoring Program
John J. Battles: Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25182-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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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 interactions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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