CAB International, 2020 Saving Tristan’s only native tree and its associated unique buntings. CAB International 2020

Keywords:

ecology

natural enemies

Notes: On Tristan da Cunha, a remote group of islands in the South Atlantic, Brown soft scale, (Coccus hesperidum), an invasive alien scale insect, has infested Tristan’s only native tree, Phylica arborea; and is now threatening the extinction of one of Britain’s rarest bird species, Nesospiza buntings