Earlier occurrence and increased explanatory power of climate for the first incidence of potato late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans in Fennoscandia

• Veiko Lehsten ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Veiko Lehsten, Laura Grenville-Briggs

  * E-mail: veiko.lehsten@nateko.lu.se

  Affiliations Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Dynamic Macroecology/ Landscape dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0649-0042

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• Lars Wiik,

  Affiliation Department for Research and Development, The Rural Economy and Agricultural Society Scania, Sweden

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• Asko Hannukkala,

  Affiliation Management and Production of Renewable Resources, Luke, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

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• Erik Andreasson,

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden

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• Deliang Chen,

  Affiliation Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Tinghai Ou,

  Affiliation Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Erland Liljeroth,

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden

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• Åsa Lankinen,

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden

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• Laura Grenville-Briggs

  Contributed equally to this work with: Veiko Lehsten, Laura Grenville-Briggs

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden

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