Forest Pathology and Plant Health

Every year, a number of new forest pathosystems are discovered as the result of introduction of alien pathogens, host shifts and jumps, hybridization and recombination among pathogens, etc. Disease outbreaks may also be favored by climate change and forest management. The mechanisms driving the resurgence of native pathogens and the invasion of alien ones need to be better understood in order to draft sustainable control strategies. In this Special Issue, modeling, population biology, and experimental studies are featured with the aim of providing insights on the epidemiology and invasiveness of emergent forest pathogens by contrasting different scenarios dealing with varying pathogen and host population sizes, evolvable genetics, changing phenotypes and phenologies, landscape fragmentation, occurrence of disturbances, management practices, etc. In summary, this special issue focuses on how variability in hosts, pathogens, or ecology may affect the emergence of new threats to plant species. This book well represents the cutting edge of current Forest Pathology research and is an invaluable resource as a textbook for an advanced class in Forest Pathology.