Ecological Archives E088-037-A3

Graciela García-Guzmán and Eduardo Morales. 2007. Life history strategies of plant pathogens: distribution patterns and phylogenetic analysis. Ecology 88:589–596.

Appendix C. Proportion of plant species (N = 198) with different life-forms affected by nine disease types. (Derived from data of Appendix B).

Plant life form

Cankers

Damping - off

Flower diseases

Flower smuts

Flower rusts

Leaf diseases

Root smuts

Rusts

Leaf / stem smuts

TOTALS

Annual grasses

     

4

       

1

5

Annual herbs

     

3

     

5

12

20

Deciduous shrubs

         

6

 

14

2

22

Deciduous trees

 

10

     

13

 

10

 

33

Evergreen shrubs

   

1

   

7

 

7

 

15

Evergreen trees

5

1

   

1

12

 

8

 

27

Ferns

             

1

 

1

Perennial grasses

     

18

       

4

22

Perennial herbs

     

1

 

1

 

6

7

15

Perennial sedges

     

19

         

19

Deciduous vines

     

3

 

1

 

2

 

6

Semideciduous trees

 

1

     

5

 

6

 

12

Perennial rushes

           

1

   

1

TOTALS

5

12

1

48

1

45

1

59

26

198


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