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Forest Declines in Response to Environmental Change

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Book cover Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 139))

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Decline diseases are intimately linked to stress and environmental change. There is strong evidence that, as a category, decline diseases have increased significantly in response to the climate, air chemistry, and other changes documented in the northeastern United States over the past century, and particularly the last two decades. No other forest response to environmental change and stress is expected to be as dramatic. Decline diseases occur in response to multiple, often overlapping and interacting, Stressors that typify the ongoing and future environmental changes expected in the Northeast.

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Wargo, P.M., Auclair, A.N.D. (2000). Forest Declines in Response to Environmental Change. In: Mickler, R.A., Birdsey, R.A., Hom, J. (eds) Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change. Ecological Studies, vol 139. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1256-0_4

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