dieback

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• Heavy populations of large galls, such as the gouty gall, may cause some dieback or limb drop.
• The tree seems to be experiencing dieback similar to fire blight.
• The team believes that the process, known as dieback, will begin when average global temperatures reach around 15C. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
• The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality.
• Where bulbs are naturalized, avoid fertilizing in spring so the quick-growing grass plants don't overshadow the bulb leaves before dieback.
• Simply checking for "dieback," or if a tree looks to be dead, is not a good method of detection, Hahn said. Mndaily.com - all articles
• A large-scale Amazon "dieback" is among a handful of potential events that could drastically intensify climate change, along with the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and the breakdown of the Gulf Stream ocean current. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• Brambles sent spiny stems snaking over the open surfaces, and weeds found rootholds in the gaps between frost-bitten edges, before collapsing in the dieback of autumn. Country diary: Bedfordshire
• The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality.
• Bergeron and Charron associated this phenomenon with the presence of forest tent caterpillar outbreaks, but crown dieback of birch following poor climatic conditions has also been reported.