Journal
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages 729-755Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00123.x
Keywords
biodiversity; biotic disturbances; carbon sequestration; grassland experiments; land use; landscape pathology; long-term datasets; plant pathogenic fungi; sustainable development; tree genetic diversity
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- Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Programme, UK
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/E010873/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/E010873/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Global change (climate change together with other worldwide anthropogenic processes such as increasing trade, air pollution and urbanization) will affect plant health at the genetic, individual, population and landscape level. Direct effects include ecosystem stress due to natural resources shortage or imbalance. Indirect effects include (i) an increased frequency of natural detrimental phenomena, (ii) an increased pressure due to already present pests and diseases, (iii) the introduction of new invasive species either as a result of an improved suitability of the climatic conditions or as a result of increased trade, and (iv) the human response to global change. In this review, we provide an overview of recent studies on terrestrial plant health in the presence of global change factors. We summarize the links between climate change and some key issues in plant health, including tree mortality, changes in wildfire regimes, biological invasions and the role of genetic diversity for ecosystem resilience. Prediction and management of global change effects are complicated by interactions between globalization, climate and invasive plants and/or pathogens. We summarize practical guidelines for landscape management and draw general conclusions from an expanding body of literature.
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