Incorporating exposure to pitch canker disease to support management decisions of Pinus pinaster Ait. in the face of climate change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is gravely affecting forest ecosystems, resulting in large distribution shifts as well as in increasing infection diseases and biological invasions. Accordingly, forest management requires an evaluation of exposure to climate change that should integrate both its abiotic and biotic components. Here we address the implications of climate change in an emerging disease by analysing both the host species (Pinus pinaster, Maritime pine) and the pathogen's (Fusarium circinatum, pitch canker) environmental suitability i.e. estimating the host's risk of habitat loss and the disease`s future environmental range. We constrained our study area to the Spanish Iberian Peninsula, where accurate climate and pitch canker occurrence databases were available. While P. pinaster is widely distr

SUBMITTER: Serra-Varela MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5305074 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature