Annotated Bibliography of Climate and Forest Diseases of Western North America
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Climate and Forest Disease | Ecosystem Effects | Climate Change | PSW Research Station Page 1 of 156 Pacific Southwest Research Station Annotated Bibliography of Climate and Forest Diseases of Western North America Hennon, P.E. 1990. Etiologies of forest declines in western North America. In: Proceedings of Society of American Foresters: Are forests the answer? Washington, D.C.; 1990 July 29-August 1. Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters: 154–159. Parker, A.K. 1951. Pole blight recorded on the British Columbia coast. Forest Pathological Notes Number 4. Laboratory of Forest Pathology, Victoria, B.C.: 5 p. Leaphart, C.D.; Stage, A.R. 1971. Climate: a factor in the origin of the pole blight disease of Pinus monticola Dougl.. Ecology. 52: 229–239. Abstract: Measurements of cores or disc samples representing slightly more than 76,000 annual rings from 336 western white pine tree were compiled to obtain a set of deviations from normal growth of healthy trees that would express the response of these trees to variation in the environment during the last 280 years. Their growth was demonstrated to be a function of temperature and available moisture for the period of climatic record from 1912 to 1958. Extrapolating the relation of growth to weather to the long tree ring record of western white pine, we find that the period 1916—40 represents the most adverse growth conditions with regard to intensity and duration in the last 280 years. This drought, superimposed on sites having severe moisture—stress characteristics, triggered the chain of events which ultimately resulted in pole blight. If the unfavorable conditions for growth during 1916—40 do not represent a shift to a new climatic mean and if western white pine is regenerated only on sites with low moisture—stress characteristics, the probability is high that pole blight will not reoccur for many centuries in stands regenerated from this date on. Leaphart, C.D.; Copeland, O.L. Jr. 1957. Root and soil relationships associated with the pole blight disease of western white pine. Soil Science Society America Proceedings. 21: 551–553. Abstract: Root density and mortality were determined in 30 healthy western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.) stands ranging from 20 to 160 years old. Similar determinations were made in 16 stands of the 60- to 80-year age class affected by pole blight, a disease of unknown cause. Various physical soil characteristics were measured in 26 healthy and diseased stands of the 60- to 80-year age class in conjunction with the root study. Both rootlet mortality and density in the upper 1 foot of soil in the 60- to 80-year age class are significantly correlated with the available water storage capacity in the soil depth occupied by a major portion of the root system. The available water storage capacity is dependent upon effective soil depth. As the severity of pole blight increases, rootlet mortality increases and available water storage capacity and effective soil depth become less. These results indicate an edaphic relationship to the pole blight disease. Leaphart, C.D. 1958. Root characteristics of western white pine and associated tree species in a stand affected with pole blight of white pine. USDA Forest Service, Research Paper INT-52. Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, UT. 10 p. Leaphart, C.D. 1958. Pole blight—how it may influence western white pine management in light of current knowledge. Journal Forestry. 56: 746–751. Graham, D.P. 1958. Results of pole blight damage surveys in the western white pine type. Journal Forestry. 56: 652–656. Jacobi, J.D.; Gerrish, G.; Mueller-Dombois, D.; Whiteaker, L. 1988. Stand-level dieback and Metrosideros regeneration in the montane rain forest of Hawaii. GeoJournal. 17 (2): 193–200. Papp, R.P.; Kliejunas, J.T.; Smith, R.S. Jr.; Scharpf, R.F. 1979. Association of Plagithmysus bilineatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and Phytophthora cinnamomi with the decline of 'ohi'a forests on the island of Hawaii. Forest Science 25: 187–196. Abstract: Two organisms, an endemic cerambycid beetle Plagithmysus bilineatus and a widespread root fungus Phytophthora cinnamomi, have been associated with the decline of ohia trees on the island of hawaii. While neither organism appeared to trigger epidemic ohia decline, each was an integral part of the complex decline syndrome. The two organisms we studied acted independently, but attack by the ceerambycid was apparently encouraged by rootlet mortality or crown loss brought on by unknown stress factors. Data and observations support Houston's (1973) concept of decline diseases. in which tree mortality is thought to result from a sequence of events that starts with stress, predisposing trees to invasion by organisms that eventually attack and kill them. http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/climate_change/forest_disease/fdbib/ 9/12/2008 Climate and Forest Disease | Ecosystem Effects | Climate Change | PSW Research Station Page 2 of 156 Mueller-Dombois, D. 1992. Potential effects of the increase in carbon dioxide and climate change on the dynamics of vegetation. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 64: 61–79. Mueller-Dombois, D. 1992. A global perspective of forest decline. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 11: 1069– 1076. Abstract: Carbon dioxide, the major plant food, is on the rise, but forests on both sides of the Atlantic are known to be declining, and industrial pollution is widely suspected to be the principal cause. However, significant contemporary forest declines also are occurring in several Pacific forests, in areas completely unaffected by industrial pollution. This paper focuses on researched forest declines in the Pacific area (New Zealand, Japan, and the Hawaiian and Galapagos islands), where canopy dieback was found to be a natural aspect of forest dynamics. It then summarizes characteristics of forest decline in central Europe (Czechoslovakia and Germany), where decline relates mostly to anthropogenic causes. Commonalities among the natural causes in the Pacific and anthropogenic causes in the European forests are emphasized through recognition of a third factor complex, the demographic component, which so far has been largely neglected in the European forest decline research. The natural cause complexes identified as demographic, disturbance, and biotic components are placed into a causal hierarchy theory based on cohort senescence. It is suggested that this may serve as a framework for comparative ecosystem research of forest declines at the global level, which includes a consideration of ongoing biotic impoverishment and climate change. Mueller-Dombois, D. 1986. Perspectives for an etiology of stand-level dieback. Annual Reviews Ecol. Syst. 17: 221–24. Mueller-Dombois, D. 1987. Forest dynamics in Hawaii. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 2(7): 216–220. Mueller-Dombois, D. 1983. Canopy dieback and successional processes in Pacific forests. Pacific Science. 37(4): 317–325. Hodges, C.S.; Adee, K.T.; Stein, J.D.; Wood, H.B.; Doty, R.D. 1986. Decline of ohia (Metrosideros polymorpha) in Hawaii: a review. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Ran Experiment Station, General Technical Report PSW-86, Berkeley, CA: 22 p. Abstract: Portions of the ohia (Metrosideros polymorpha) forests on the windward slopes of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii began dying in 1952. Little mortality has occurred since 1972. About 50,000 ha are affected by the decline. Individual trees exhibit several symptoms, from slow progressive dieback to rapid death. Seven types of decline have been identified on the basis of differential response of the associated rainforest vegetation. Two of the types, Bog Formation Dieback and Wetland Dieback, make up more than 80 percent of the decline area. The decline has affected bird populations and plant species in some areas, but has had no major effect on runoff or water quality. Ohia decline appears to be a typical decline disease caused by a sequence of events. Poor drainage is probably the major cause of stress and is followed by attack of the ohia borer (Plagithmysus bilineatus) and two fungi (Phytophthora cinnamomi and Armillaria mellea), which kill the trees. Except for controlling introduced plants and feral animals that spread them, little can be done to ameliorate the effects of the decline Conrad, Eugene C.; Scowcroft, Paul G.; Wass, Richard C.; Donovan, Goo S. 1988. Reforestation research in Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge. Transactions of the Western Section Wildlife Society. 24: 80–86. Burton, P.J.; Mueller-Dombois, D. 1984. Response of Metrosideros polymorpha seedlings to experimental canopy opening. Ecology. 65(3): 779–791. Burton, P.J. 1980. Light regimes and Metrosideros regeneration in a Hawaiian montane rain forest. Thesis (M.S.). University of Hawaii, Honolulu. 378 p. Balakrishnan, N.; Mueller-Dombois, D. 1983. Nutrient studies in relation to habitat types and canopy dieback in the montane rain forest ecosystem, Island of Hawai'i. Pacific Science. 37(4): 339–359. Abstract: A soil and foliar nutrient analysis was carried out in the Hawaiian Metrosideros rain forest for the purposes of elucidating a previously published physical habitat classification and for finding an explanation for the widespread canopy dieback, which is not caused by a biotic agent in this ecosystem. Soil elements analyzed were C, N, P, Ca, AI, Mn, Fe, and other parameters such as pH. Foliar analysis was restricted to N, P, Ca, Mn, and Fe and assessed only for the canopy M. polymorpha and its major associate, the tree