Physiological Plant Disorders
Significant abiotic disorders can be caused by:
- Natural
- Drought
- Frost damage, and breakage by snow and hail
- Flooding and poor drainage
- Nutrient deficiency
- Salt deposition and other soluble mineral excesses (e.g., gypsum)
- Wind (windburn, and breakage by hurricanes and tornadoes)
- Lightning and wildfire (also often man-made)
- Man-made (arguably not abiotic, but usually regarded as such)
- Soil compaction
- Pollution of air, soil, or both
- Salt from winter road salt application or irrigation
- Herbicide over-application
- Poor education and training of people working with plants (e.g. lawnmower damage to trees)
- Vandalism
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