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Forest health and biosecurity in a changing world

Forest health and biosecurity in a changing world AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY 2022, VOL. 85, NO. 4, 141–145 https://doi.org/10.1080/00049158.2022.2142373 Australia’s forest industry faces significant challenges to dothistroma needle blight in New South Wales and ensure it is prepared to meet existing, emerging and Victoria observed in 2022 following higher-than-average new forest health and biosecurity threats in a changing rainfall, with almost three times the area requiring control world. Increasing volumes and diversification of trade and compared with previous years (A. Carnegie, pers. obs., travel are escalating the risk of exotic pests establishing in 2022; D. Smith, pers. comm., 2022). Australia, and climate change is predicted to affect host susceptibility to pests and pathogens and increase the Increasing pest risk frequency and intensity of droughts and fires, which can cause significant forest losses. Yet, as these risks are Risks to Australia’s native forests and plantations from exotic increasing, Australia’s technical capacity in forest health pests are increasing (Lawson et al. 2018). Despite strong and biosecurity is declining. Together, this substantially biosecurity measures, on average two new pests establish weakens our ability to identify and respond to biosecurity each year in Australian forests and about 20% have moder- threats, solve emerging forest health issues and manage ate-to-high impacts (Nahrung and Carnegie http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Forestry Taylor & Francis

Forest health and biosecurity in a changing world

Australian Forestry , Volume 85 (4): 5 – Oct 2, 2022
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2022 Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA)
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2325-6087
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0004-9158
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10.1080/00049158.2022.2142373
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AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY 2022, VOL. 85, NO. 4, 141–145 https://doi.org/10.1080/00049158.2022.2142373 Australia’s forest industry faces significant challenges to dothistroma needle blight in New South Wales and ensure it is prepared to meet existing, emerging and Victoria observed in 2022 following higher-than-average new forest health and biosecurity threats in a changing rainfall, with almost three times the area requiring control world. Increasing volumes and diversification of trade and compared with previous years (A. Carnegie, pers. obs., travel are escalating the risk of exotic pests establishing in 2022; D. Smith, pers. comm., 2022). Australia, and climate change is predicted to affect host susceptibility to pests and pathogens and increase the Increasing pest risk frequency and intensity of droughts and fires, which can cause significant forest losses. Yet, as these risks are Risks to Australia’s native forests and plantations from exotic increasing, Australia’s technical capacity in forest health pests are increasing (Lawson et al. 2018). Despite strong and biosecurity is declining. Together, this substantially biosecurity measures, on average two new pests establish weakens our ability to identify and respond to biosecurity each year in Australian forests and about 20% have moder- threats, solve emerging forest health issues and manage ate-to-high impacts (Nahrung and Carnegie

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Australian ForestryTaylor & Francis

Published: Oct 2, 2022

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