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    A century of data reveals how chestnut blight occurs

    Eira Gwyneth Posted on

    Floristic changes after chestnut blight can be delayed for decades

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    Two images from the field show a chestnut sprout and a close-up of the mushroom. The cancer fungus, Cryphonectria parasiticais responsible for the widespread loss of American chestnut trees from the forest canopy and for newly sprouting branches of an infected tree that are girded and killed by the fungus before they can reach the canopy or reproduce.

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    Photo credit: Claire Karban, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

    A century of data reveals how chestnut blight wiped out the American chestnut—and how forest composition has evolved since then—in Shenanoah National Park, Virginia

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    Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306748

    Article title: Floristic changes after chestnut blight can be delayed for decades

    Author countries: US

    Financing: We were funded by the Washington Biologists’ Field Club. This is a small organization that only gives out a few small awards each year. There is no specific grant number assigned to this award. The funders had no influence on study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

    Article title

    Floristic changes after chestnut blight can be delayed for decades

    Article publication date

    Oct 2, 2024

    COI statement

    The authors have declared that they have no competing interests.

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