Field Guide for the Identification of Damage on Woody Sentinel Plants

By: Thomas Cech and Sylvie Augustin and Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg and Kalev Adamson and Ayse Gülden Aday Kaya and Dimitrios N Avtzis and Yuri N Baranchikov and Ellie Barham and Marek Barta and Refika Ceyda Beram and Conceição Boavida and Helena Bragança and Daiva Burokiene and György Csóka and H. Tugba Dogmus Lehtijärvi and Rein Drenkhan and Jian-Ting Fan and Milka Glavendekic and Irinia Ionescu-Malancus and Magdalena Kacprzyk and Marc Kenis and Natalia Kirichenko and Ferenc Lakatos and Asko Lehtijärvi and Giorgio Maresi and Carmen Morales-Rodríguez and Ana Cristina Moreira and Dmitry L Musolin and Richard O'Hanlon and Irena Papazova-Anakieva and Leopold Poljakovic-Pajnik and Simone Prospero and Hans Ravn and Andrey V Selikhovkin and Venche Talgø and Manole Traian and Andrea Vannini and Anna Maria Vettraino and Johanna Witzell

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Synopsis: This book is a heavily-illustrated, internationally applicable, practical guide for the identification of likely causal agents of damage to trees and woody shrubs. It is intended for use in sentinel plantings - a new tool to identify pests in the country of origin, used to inform pest risk analysis and risk mitigation measures - where agents often may not be known and only damage visible. Field Guide for the Identification of Damage on Woody Sentinel Plants: - Aids the identification of the type of agent that may have caused observed damage, including pathogens, invertebrates and abiotic factors. - Explains how to take and preserve samples and how to proceed to obtain a more definitive identification of pests. - Includes a general damage chapter in addition to specific chapters on damage to leaves, buds and shoots, roots, trunk, and flowers, fruits and seeds. - Contains 800 full colour, high quality photographs to aid analysis. This is an essential guide for plant health professionals, including inspectors for plant protection organizations, foresters and nursery managers, in addition to students of forest entomology and pathology.