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  2. Forest pathology - Wikipedia

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    Forest pathology is the research of both biotic and abiotic maladies affecting the health of a forest ecosystem, primarily fungal pathogens and their insect vectors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a subfield of forestry and plant pathology .

  3. Tree health - Wikipedia

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    Plant Health Care (PHC) is multi-dimensional management strategy for tree and plant care to preserve the vitality of the urban and community forest. [11] Arborists and Plant Health Care Specialists apply a broad range of techniques by selecting and integrating treatment options that protect and enhance the health, structure, and appearance of ...

  4. Armillaria root rot - Wikipedia

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    While Armillaria is a significant and damaging pathogen of tree hosts, it also has many agronomic hosts such as grapevines, berries, roses, stone fruits, rhododendron, and rosaceous plants, although the fungus is primarily native to areas where it can use forest trees as a host. On hosts such as these, infection causes death of the cambium and ...

  5. Native Plants 101: Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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    Native plants in the U.S. are under threat from habitat loss, construction, overgrazing, wildfires, invasive species, bioprospecting — the search for plant and animal species from which ...

  6. Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone - Wikipedia

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    Alpine plants often have gray appearance from hairs covering the leaves, which reflect the intense sunlight, and protect from winds that cause high rates of water loss through transpiration. [4]: 224 Many Sierra Nevada alpine plants have reddish or whitish leaves to protect them from damage from intense ultraviolet radiation in the alpine zone.

  7. Cut Cambria’s pine forest some slack. It’s old — but not ...

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    “Calling the forest out as ‘very unhealthy’ is misleading, emotionally charged, and, I believe, a disservice to the community,” writes environmental expert Neil Havlik.

  8. List of plants that are extinct in the wild - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 0.068% of all evaluated plant species are listed as extinct in the wild. The IUCN also lists one plant subspecies as extinct in the wild. This is a complete list of extinct in the wild plant species and subspecies as evaluated by the IUCN. All are vascular plants (tracheophytes).

  9. Pieris floribunda - Wikipedia

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    The cultivar 'Forest Flame' is a large shrub to 4 m (13 ft), with leaves which go from red to pink to green. This compact, upright shrub is a cross between P. formosa ‘Wakehurst’ and P. japonica grows 12′ feet tall and half as wide It produces small urn-shaped cream-coloured flowers in spring. It is not a cultivar of Pieris floribunda.