Great basin bristlecone pine tree

    • Mojave Desert Network White Pine Monitoring Project ...

      Great Basin bristlecone pine on a talus slope in Great Basin National Park overlooking the sagebrush steppeNPS . Photo / Nicole Hupp. Background . White pines are the suite of pine tree species whose needles grow in bundles of five and, in the western US, include eight species. Several of these species are high-


    • [PDF File]Low offspring survival in mountain pine beetle infesting ...

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      Great Basin (GB) bristlecone pine (P. longaevaBailey), a member of the Balfourianae pine group, is a high-elevation pine species found in Utah, Nevada, and California. Several recent


    • [PDF File]Defense traits in the long-lived Great Basin bristlecone ...

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      Defense traits in the long-lived Great Basin bristlecone pine and resistance to the native herbivore mountain pine beetle Barbara J. Bentz1, Sharon M. Hood2*, E. Matthew Hansen1, James C. Vandygriff1 and Karen E. Mock3 1USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Logan, UT 84321, USA; 2USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT 59808, USA; 3Department of


    • [PDF File]Mechanisms of species range shift: germination and early ...

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      Great Basin, and whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engel) a treeline species in parts of the northeastern Great Basin. For the two most common Great Basin subalpine conifers, Great Basin bristlecone pine, and limber pine, germination and first-year survival are like-


    • [PDF File]Recent unprecedented tree-ring growth in bristlecone pine ...

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      Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) at 3 sites in western North America near the upper elevation limit of tree growth showed ring growth in the second half of the 20th century that was greater than during any other 50-year period in the last 3,700 years. The accelerated growth is suggestive of an environmental change un-


    • Changing climate response in near-treeline bristlecone ...

      Fine-scale modeling of bristlecone pine treeline position in the Great Basin, USA Jamis M Bruening, Tyler J Tran, Andrew G Bunn et al.-Cluster analysis and topoclimate modeling to examine bristlecone pine tree-ring growth signals in the Great Basin, USA Tyler J Tran, Jamis M Bruening, Andrew G Bunn et al.-Widespread negative correlations between


    • Assessment of Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus ...

      Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva D.K. Bailey) is a keystone species of the subalpine forest in the Great Basin and western Colorado Plateau ecoregions in Utah, Nevada, and California. Bristlecone pine is also the world’s longest-lived non-clonal organism, with individuals occasionally reaching ages up to 5,000 years old.


    • Cluster Analysis and Topoclimate Modeling to Examine ...

      tree growth. Great Basin bristlecone pine is a long-lived species and valuable dendroclimatic resource, but often with mixed growth signals; in many cases, not all trees at one location are limited by the same environmental variable. Past work has identiļ¬ed an elevational threshold


    • [PDF File]Earth's oldest trees in climate-induced race up the tree line

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      Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled, old men in a ... In the western Great Basin, a stand of adult bristlecone pine tree grow in dolomite ...


    • Five Millennia of Paleotemperature from Tree-Rings in the ...

      past temperature. High elevation tree-ring widths from Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) are a par-ticularly useful proxy to infer temperatures prior to the instrumental record in that the tree-rings are annually dated and extend for millennia. From ring-width measurements integrated with past treeline elevation data we infer dec-


    • [PDF File]PRIMARY RESEARCH ARTICLE

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      the eastern Great Basin, and whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engel), a treeline species in parts of the northern and eastern Great Basin. Great Basin bristlecone pine is notable for individual longevity with known trees over 5,000 years old making them the oldest living nonclonal organisms on earth (Schulman, 1954).


    • [PDF File]Extreme Trees: Tallest, Biggest, Oldest

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      Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) — the latter living half as long as the former. Human Perception Issues A large-growing tree species on a resource-rich site can grow quickly to a large size. In contrast, a small statured tree may still be very old.


    • [PDF File]Live fast, die young: Climate shifts may favor Great Basin ...

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      potentially reduced precipitation. The tree species that can better establish in these future high-elevation forests will likely expand their ranges while potentially excluding other species. Using a greenhouse experiment, we compared the response of limber pine and Great Basin bristlecone pine, the two dominant Great Basin sub-alpine


    • Great Basin Bristlecone Pine Resistance to Mountain Pine ...

      development was similar in all three tree species, but nearly all brood in Great Basin bristlecone pine died before emerging. The extensive offspring mortality observed in Great Basin bristlecone pine may be a key evolutionary driver behind mountain pine beetle aversion to the species. These findings suggest that Great Basin bristlecone pine is ...


    • [PDF File]Fine-scale modeling of bristlecone pine treeline position ...

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      Cluster analysis and topoclimate modeling to examine bristlecone pine tree-ring growth signals in the Great Basin, USA Tyler J Tran, Jamis M Bruening, Andrew G Bunn et al. Changing climate response in near-treeline bristlecone pine with elevation and aspect Matthew W Salzer, Evan R Larson, Andrew G Bunn et al.


    • [PDF File]Great Basin National Park Quarter Grades Seven and Eight

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      Great Bristlecone! rEsOurCEs • Worksheets: – “Great Basin National Park Quarter” – “Bristlecone Pine Tree Facts” – “Bristlecone Pine Tree Poster, Rubric” • An age-appropriate text that gives information on the Bristlecone Pine tree, such as: The Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World’s Oldest Trees. by Ronald ...


    • Recent Unprecedented Tree-Ring Growth in Bristlecone Pine ...

      Great Basin bristlecone pine {Pinus longaeva) at 3 sites in western North America near the upper elevation limit of tree growth showed ring growth in the second half of the 20th century that was greater than during any other 50-year period in the last 3,700 years. The accelerated growth is suggestive of an environmental change un


    • Soil impacts of bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree ...

      low some tree species and not others, there-by producing habitat heterogeneity that may ultimately affect ecosystem function. Pinus longaeva. D.K. Bailey (Great Basin bristlecone pine), well known for its pronounced longevity (Schulman 1958, LaMarche 1969), occurs above Great Basin treelines as islands in a krummholz (dwarfed and gnarled ...


    • [PDF File]Great Basin - National Park Service

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      Great Basin Bristlecone Pines National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Great Basin National Park Great Basin Near the mountaintops of the Great Basin, you will find the world’s oldest living trees, the Great Basin bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva. This remarkable tree ekes out a living in the most adverse conditions, growing at ...


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