"The book is overall an enjoyable read and I believe it will become an appreciated tool for forest health specialists and practitioners." --Quarterly Review of Biology
Part I: Basis of tree pathology1. Basic concept and principles of forest pathology 2. Diagnostic tools and techniques in tree pathology
Part II: Tree health: Global perspectives
3. Forest diversity and productivity: Implications for forest health in future climates 4. Globalization, invasive forest pathogen species, and forest tree health 5. Abiotic factors affecting forest tree health6. Climate change and forest health: Detecting dieback hotspots7. Ecological, evolutionary, and societal impacts of invasions by emergent forest pathogens 8. Population dynamics of forest tree pathogens9. Modeling forest disturbance and tree disease dynamics
Part III: Basis and principles of tree disease resistance breeding 10. Resistance breeding against tree pathogens
Part IV: Foliage (including Needles) Pathogens of trees (case examples) 11. Dothistroma needle blight disease
12. Rust diseases of forest trees 13. Ash dieback 14. Temperate oak declines: Biotic and abiotic predisposition factors
Part V: Stem and shoot pathogens of trees (case examples) 15. Rapid Ohia Death in Hawaii 16. Dutch elm diseas 17. Diseases of chestnut trees
18. Pine pitcher cancker (PPC): An introduction, an overview
Part VI: Root diseases (pathogens) (case examples)
19. Heterobasidion annosum s.l.: Biology, genomics, and pathogenicity factors
20. Armillaria root disease of diverse trees in wide-spread gloabl regions
21. Phytophthora diseases
Part VII: Beneficial microbes (mycorrhiza, saprotrophs)
22. Mycorrhizas: Role in N and P cyclcing and nutrition of forest trees