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Graciela García-Guzmán and Eduardo Morales. 2007. Life history strategies of plant pathogens: distribution patterns and phylogenetic analysis. Ecology 88:589–596.

Appendix D. Proportion of plant species (N = 198) affected by nine disease types in a variety of habitats in the Neotropics. (Derived from data of Appendix B).

Habitat

Cankers

Damping - off
diseases

Flower diseases

Flower smuts

Flower rusts

Leaf diseases

Root smuts

Rusts

Leaf / stem smuts

TOTALS

Aquatic

     

1

       

1

2

Caribbean mangrove

         

3

     

3

Cerrado

         

25

 

11

 

36

Cloud forest

   

1

       

6

1

8

Deciduous forest

     

2

 

5

 

5

1

13

Disturbed area

     

23

     

27

14

64

Evergreen rain forest

1

1

     

3

 

6

 

11

Grasslands

     

2

         

2

Open areas

     

6

       

2

8

Riverbank

             

1

 

1

Sand dunes

     

2

         

2

Savanna

             

1

 

1

Semideciduous forest

4

11

   

1

9

 

1

 

26

Shorelines

     

11

   

1

1

2

15

Swamps

     

1

         

1

Wetlands

               

5

5

TOTALS

5

12

1

48

1

45

1

59

26

198



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