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No rest for the laurels: symbiotic invaders cause unprecedented damage to southern USA forests

2017-07-01

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Laurel wilt is an extraordinarily destructive exotic tree disease in the southeastern United States that involves new-encounter hosts in the Lauraceae, an introduced vector (Xyleborus glabratus) and pathogen symbiont (Raffaelea lauricola). USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis data were used to estimate that over 300 million trees of redbay (Persea borbonia sensu lato) have succumbed to the disease sin...

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Literature Corpus work: e7304ad1-0c3e-593b-b222-61f754cf3ae4
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-017-1427-z

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