Forest Insect and Disease Conditions for the Southern Region, 2006. Most Significant Conditions in Brief

摘要

The impact of serious pests was moderate to low in Southern forests in 2006. Abiotic factors were generally limited to latent effects from the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes, with some localized problems from windstorms and drought. There was a marked increase in scattered pine mortality across the western Gulf Coastal Plain from Alabama to Texas in response to drought and latent windstorm effects that increased their susceptibility to Ips and black turpentine beetle attack.