Diseases of Monterey Pine in Native Stands of California and in Plantations of Western North America

摘要

Monterey pine is without doubt the best know expatriate of the North American conifers. More than one and a half million acres of plantations in Australia, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain attest its economic importance and adaptability. Forest biologists have studied Monterey pine intensively as an exotic, but have given much less attention to native stands of this conifer in California. Botanists have described the species and its distribution. Geneticists have reported on Monterey pine hybrids, on California plantings of progenies from Australia, and on the ecology and variation of the species, and entomologists have recorded insects from native stands.