[APWG] NEWS: Grazing Animals Help Spread Plant Disease
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Dec 30 09:54:58 CST 2008
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081229200736.htm
Grazing Animals Help Spread Plant Disease
ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2008) -- Researchers have discovered that grazing
animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant
disease -- quadrupling its prevalence in some cases -- and encouraging an
invasion of annual grasses that threaten more than 20 million acres of
native grasslands in California.
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