Forest Decline Concepts

Edited by Paul D. Manion and Denis Lachance
APS Press 1992

Softcover 249 pages, 51 black and white photographs and ISBN 0890541434 £42.00

This book provides a foundation of diverse ideas and approaches to explain complex problems of trees and their decline. The contents are as follows:

Foreword
A Host-Stress-Saprogen Model for Forest Dieback-Decline Diseases
A Natural Dieback Theory, cohort Senescence as an Alternative to the Decline Disease Theory
Climatic Perturbation as a General Mechanism of Forest Dieback
The German Forest Decline Situation: A Complex Disease or a Complex of Diseases
A Closer Look at Forest Decline: A Need for More Accurate Diagnostics
Alaska Yellow-Cedar Decline: Distribution, Epidemiology, and Etiology
Sugar Maple Declines - Causes, Effects, and Recommendations
A Quantitative Tree Crown Rating System for Deciduous Forest Health Surveys: Some Results for Ontario
Pattern and Process of Maple Dieback in Southern Quebec(Canada)
Development of a Hazard Rating System for Decline in Southern Bottomland Oaks
Forest Decline Concepts: An Overview
Literature Cited
Index