Includes contributions from 36 international forest pathology experts. Table of Contents Introduction; Purpose and Scope; Diseases of Conifers; Biology and Pathology; Ecology: Disease in the Forest; Disease in Disrupted Environments; General References Diseases of Forest Trees Root Diseases; Phytophthora Root Diseases: Littleleaf Disease, Port Orford Cedar Root Disease, Rhizina Root Disease, Leptographium Root Diseases of Conifers: Blackstain Root Disease, Other Leptographium Species on Conifer Roots Root Decays; Annosum Root Rot, Armillaria Root Disease, Laminated Root Rot, Red Brown Butt Rot, Tomentosus Root Rot, Brown Root Rot, Other Root Rot Fungi; Stem and Branch Diseases; Bluestain and Bark Beetles, Pine Wilt Nematode; Stem Decays Wound Decays; Red Rot, Amylostereum Rot, Yellow-Brown Top Rot, Brown Crumbly Rot, Other Wound Decays, True Heart Rots: Red Ring Rot, Rust-Red Stringy Rot Stem Rusts; Soft Pine Stem Rust: White Pine Blister Rust, Other Soft Pine Stem Rusts, Hard Pine Stem Rust: Fusiform Rust, Eastern Gall Rust, Western Gall Rust, Resin Top Disease, Comandra Blister Rust, Stalactiform Blister Rust, Sweetfern Blister Rust, Other Hard Pine Stem Rusts, Limb Rusts, Pine Twist Rust, Gymnosporangium Stem Rusts Parasitic Plants of Conifers; Dwarf mistletoes, Leafy Mistletoes and Other Parasitic Plants; Cankers and Twig Blights; Larch Canker, Sphaeropsis Shoot Blight and Canker, Scleroderris Canker, Pitch Canker, Atropellis Cankers, Other Canker Diseases; Diseases of Cones and Seeds; Spruce Cone Rust, South Western Pine Cone Rust, Southern Pine Cone Rust, Cone and Seed Fungi Foliage Diseases; Needle and Broom Rusts, Needle Blights and Needle Casts, Rhabdocline Needle Casts, Swiss Needle Cast, Dothistroma Needle Blight, Cyclaneusma Needle Cast, Other Foliage Diseases on Pine: Ploioderma Needle Casts, Elytroderma Needle Casts, Lophodermella Needle Casts, Bifusella and Meloderma Needle Blights, Lophodermium Needle Casts, Davisomycella Needle Casts, Foliage Diseases on Other Conifers: Abies, Picea, Larix, Cupressaceae, Tsuga, Black Mildews and Sooty Molds, Felt Blights and Snow Molds Abiotic Diseases Decline Diseases; Recent Forest Declines in Europe, Northeastern Subalpine Red Spruce Decline, Yellow Cedar Decline, Pole Blight, Austrocedrus Decline Diseases in the Forest; Disease in the European Forest; Forestry and Pathology in Fennoscandia; Boreal Forest of North America; Conifer Diseases of Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East; Diseases in Coastal Conifer Forests in Western North America; Conifer Diseases in the Inland West; Disease in the Southern Pine Forest; Pathology of Indian Conifers; Diseases of Conifers in Australia and New Zealand; Conifer Diseases in Africa Diseases of Conifers in Special Settings; Nurseries; Christmas Trees; Ornamentals; Host and Pathogen Spanish version available.