Extreme climatic events and host–pathogen interactions: The impact of the 1976 drought in the UK

Influences of extreme weather, climate and pesticide use on invertebrates in cereal fields over 42 years

“…However, the invertebrates we considered were also quick to recover, with only two taxa taking longer than a year to return to pre‐event trends. Morley & Lewis () reported similar responses and quick recoveries when reviewing host–pathogen responses to one of the extreme weather events considered here, the 1976 drought. The invertebrate taxa that we examined can exhibit great interannual variability in their abundance (Fig.…”

The impact of climate change on disease in wild plant populations and communities

“…Reviews have presented different emphases while remaining quite general without too much specific information on individual crop diseases; most have covered crops and other managed plant populations rather than the wild plant populations and communities covered in this review. Aspects covered, selective not exhaustive, over the last 15 years on climate change impacts on plant disease include scale of analysis (Garrett et al, 2006), pathogen evolution and disease management (Burdon & Thrall, 2008), pathogen emergence and new encounters (Jones, 2009), implications for landscape management (Pautasso et al, 2010), complexity of interactions (Garrett et al, 2011), food security (Chakraborty & Newton, 2011), plant defence (Newton et al, 2012), overview of opinions and trends (Pautasso et al, 2012), life history trade-offs (Laine & Barrès, 2013), atypical drought (Morley & Lewis, 2014), inadequacies of the disease triangle concept (Garbelotto & Gonthier, 2017), unpredictability of emergence of pathogens (Corredor-Moreno & Saunders, 2020), and plant-microbe interactions more generally (Rudgers et al, 2020). In a recent book, Burdon and Laine (2019) provide a comprehensive overview of the evolutionary dynamics of plant-pathogen interactions, covering climate-related changes in disease occurrence and geographical range, but also pointing out the implications for evolutionary and coevolutionary processes, considered to be a fertile area for future study.…”

NOXious gases and the unpredictability of emerging plant pathogens under climate change

“…Citrus canker, a water-droplet borne bacterial disease, became irrevocably established in Florida after four hurricanes made landfall during 2004 [ 65 ], and outbreaks of Dothistroma needle blight have been found to correlate with above average rainfall events in British Colombia [ 66 ]. Morley and Lewis [ 67 ] studied the effects upon pathogens of the drought which affected the UK in 1976. In fungi, these effects were dependent upon pathogenic lifestyle: many foliar pathogens were less successful in producing aerial spores, while soil-borne species were largely unaffected [ 67 ].…”

“…Morley and Lewis [ 67 ] studied the effects upon pathogens of the drought which affected the UK in 1976. In fungi, these effects were dependent upon pathogenic lifestyle: many foliar pathogens were less successful in producing aerial spores, while soil-borne species were largely unaffected [ 67 ]. Anyamba et al .…”