Best practice management of Phytophthora cinnamomi for biodiversity conservation. In Innovations for sustainable plant health

Disease in natural ecosystems caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi is listed as a key threatening process under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. A Commonwealth Government funded project stemming from the National Threat Abatement Plan (1), sought to develop: • a process and criteria to assess the risk to biodiversity from P. cinnamomi (2) • national best practice benchmarks for the management of P. cinnamomi (3) The current paper describes the best practice component of the project