Widespread mortality of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) throughout interior Alaskan boreal forests resulting from a novel canker disease

• Roger W. Ruess ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rwruess@alaska.edu

  Affiliation Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4557-6161

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• Loretta M. Winton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Gerard C. Adams

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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