Ecologist
Originally posted in Nature Portfolio Humans are not the only species facing a pandemic. Over the past 100 years, white pines in North America have been succumbing to a highly infectious disease called white pine blister rust. The disease, purportedly endemic to northeast Asia, was first introduced into the United States from Europe around the …
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Over twenty years ago, two intrepid park scientists, Dan and Cynthia Duriscoe, set out on a seemingly impossible mission: install 154 long-term monitoring plots in some of the most remote wilderness in the lower 48. Their goal was to establish a scientific baseline for a highly infectious disease, white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), in …
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