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Drought is also thought to be a factor causing dieback in hedgerow trees, which are not included in the UK crown density survey.

The symptoms on Pieris were an aerial twig dieback (Fig.

I should die of happiness!On conifers in California, the pathogen causes a needle blight and dieback of young shoots of Douglas fir and coastal redwood.

In North America it also causes ramorum dieback or ramorum leaf blight on a range of woodland plants.

On other native plants in California the symptoms are quite variable but are usually associated with leaf spotting and branch dieback.

A whole plant showing dieback was sent to CSL for diagnosis.

This forest dieback or degradation could potentially contribute 10 to 100 Gt C to the atmosphere in the coming century.

dieback symptoms was first described in Zaire in 1989 but the causal agent was not established.

The other problem affecting alders is crown dieback, which results in the tree dying from the top downwards.