According to the plant list in the following link, Australian Myrtaceae would
be at risk from the fungus.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~tcharrin/CABIinfo.html
Kind regards,
Stephen
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde NSW
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
> Denise Goodfellow
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 May, 2016 8:01 PM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] birds affected by the die-off of native trees in
> Hawai'i
>
>
> Good evening all. Some of you may have heard of the die-off of trees in
> Hawai’i. Here are a couple of reports.
>
> "Since its discovery in 2010, rapid ohia death has devastated thousands of
> acres of native forests throughout Hawaii Island. Ohia, one of the most
> important forest trees in Hawai’i”
> <http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/state-considers-permanent-ohia-transport-ban>.
>
>
> The Nature Conservancy puts the number of tree deaths at 100 000, half the
> trees on the Big Island
> http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/
> unitedstates/hawaii/explore/ohia-wilt.xml.
>
> Indigenous Hawai’ian elder, Leilehua Yuen has just written: Pretty much all
> forest birds (are affected). The ʻōhiʻa-lehua is a keystone tree, comprising
> up to 80% of a given forest stand.
>
> The culprit is a fungus Ceratocystis fimbriata. I don’t know if Australian
> members of Myrtaceae are at threat. Can anyone on Birding Aus tell me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
> PO Box 71
> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
> 043 8650 835
>
> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
>
> Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
> Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism Award, 2004.
>
> With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent
> becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.
>
>
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