The Threat of the Combined Effect of Biotic and Abiotic Stress Factors in Forestry Under a Changing Climate.

ABSTRACT: Plants encounter several biotic and abiotic stresses, usually in combination. This results in major economic losses in agriculture and forestry every year. Climate change aggravates the adverse effects of combined stresses and increases such losses. Trees suffer even more from the recurrence of biotic and abiotic stress combinations owing to their long lifecycle. Despite the effort to study the damage from individual stress factors, less attention has been given to the effect of the complex interactions between multiple biotic and abiotic stresses. In this review, we assess the importance, impact, and mitigation strategies of climate change driven interactions between biotic and abiotic stresses in forestry. The ecological and economic importance of biotic and abiotic stresses under differ

SUBMITTER: Teshome DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733969 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature