News From the Field Humans Fostering Forest-destroying Disease
August 16, 2007
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Paradoxically, the spread of Sudden Oak Death--a potentially catastrophic tree killing disease that first invaded California in the 1990s--is being encouraged by human landscape management practices that have increased the size and density of west coast oak forests, according to a forthcoming study. Research shows that other human activities may be involved as well.
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Source University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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