Managing emerging forest pests and diseases
Description
In the last few decades, a growing number of native and non-native pests and diseases have caused severe losses to European forests. Horizon 2020 multi-actor project HOMED is developing science-based, practical methods and tools to assess and control emerging or invasive forest pests and pathogens.
“Insect pests and fungal pathogens may be harmless in their place of origin but very damaging when introduced in other regions, such as chestnut blight and ash dieback or Asian long-horned beetle in Europe. Due to global trade and environmental stresses including climate change, an increasing number of species can establish themselves and pose significant threats to European forest ecosystems, causing economic and environmental losses”, says HOMED coordinator Hervé Jactel from INRAE, France.
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