Proceedings, I.U.F.R.O. Beech Bark Disease Working Party Conference

Abstract

This conference was the first full meeting of the Working Party since its inception at the Beech Bark Disease Colloquium held in Nancy, France in 1979. The meeting from 27 September to 7 October 1982 took the form of a study tour convened at the College of Forestry, University of Maine,with field trips in the Central New England States and New York and concluding at the U.S.D.A. Northeastern Forest Experiment Station's Center for Biological Control of Northeastern Forest Insects and Diseases, in Hsmden, Connecticut. During the tour a series of conference paper sessions was held and field trips were made to sites illustrating various aspects of disease development in the U.S.A. Contains 25 papers.

Titles contained within Proceedings, I.U.F.R.O. Beech Bark Disease Working Party Conference

• Beech bark disease in Great Britain
• Current status of beech bark disease in France
• Present state of beech bark disease in Germany
• The status of beech bark disease in the Maritime Provinces of Canada in 1980
• Status of beech bark disease in the Province of Quebec
• Current status of beech bark disease in New England and New York
• Status of beech bark disease in Pennsylvania
• Beech bark disease in West Virginia: status and impact on the Monongahela National Forest
• Interaction between beech and beech scale
• Distribution of attack by beech scale, Cryptococcus fagisuga, in beech progeny trials
• American beech resistance to Cryptococcus fagisuga
• Wood and bark anatomy of young beech in relation to Cryptococcus attack
• Specificity of Cryptococcus fagisuga and Nectria coccinea association in beech bark disease in Europe
• Pectinase activity of Nectria coccinea (Pers ex Fries) fries in relation to beech bark disease
• Some aspects of the ecology of Nectria on beech
• Characteristics and development of necrophylatic periderms in mature bark of American beech
• Armillaria mellea and mortality of beech affected by beech bark disease
• Chilocorus stigma (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and other predators of beech scale in central New York
• Fungal associations in the build-up and decline of Cryptococcus fagisuga populations
• Influence of lichen species on colonization of Fagus grandifolia by Cryptococcus fagisuga: preliminary observations from certain Nova Scotian forests
• Effects of parasitism by Nematogonum ferrugineum (Gonstorrhodiella highlei) on pathogenicity of Nectria coccinea var. faginata and Nectria galligena
• Management of beech stands infected by Cryptococcus fagisuga in West Germany
• Development of beech bark disease during a seven year period on two plots in northern Bavaria
• Effects of species composition and site factors on the severity of beech bark disease in western Massachusetts and the White Mountains of New Hampshire: a preliminary report
• An approach to modeling the consequences of beech mortality from beech bark disease

Citation

U.S., Forest Service. 1983. Proceedings, IUFRO Beech Bark Disease Working Party Conference. 1982 September 26-October 8; Hamden, CT. Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-37. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 140 p.