Claim · model-written summary
Symptomatic trees in thinned plots showed pronounced decline and dieback.
Verbatim
e0“Symptomatic trees of the genera Alnus, Acer, Fraxinus, Platanus, Quercus and Ulmus, exhibited in thinned subplot pronounced decline/dieback, exhibiting symptoms like microphyllia, leaf yellowing, leaf shedding, sunken cankers, shoot wilting and branch dieback.”
Title
Alessandra Benigno; Viola Papini; Salvatore Moricca Pathogens 2026. doi:10.3390/pathogens15020155
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Pathogen incidence was significantly higher in thinned than unthinned plots.
- Observation Five Botryosphaeriaceae species were isolated from declining tree tissue.
- Intervention effect Neofusicoccum parvum presence increased tenfold in the thinned subplot.
- Intervention effect Botryosphaeria dothidea presence increased fivefold in the thinned subplot.
- Observation The two pathogenic taxa maintained stable proportions in unthinned plots.
- Recommendation Authors recommend silvicultural strategies accounting for host and pathogen ecology and forest microclimate.
