Chapter 15 - Composition and structure of whitebark and limber pine stands in the Interior West and the silvicultural implications (Project INT-EM-B-14-01)

James N. Long; John D. Shaw; Marcella Windmuller-Campione

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Chapter 15 - Composition and structure of whitebark and limber pine stands in the Interior West and the silvicultural implications (Project INT-EM-B-14-01)

Informally Refereed

Authors:

James N. Long, John D. Shaw, Marcella Windmuller-Campione

Year:

2018

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Potter, Kevin M.; Conkling, Barbara L., eds. 2018. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2017. General Technical Report SRS-233. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station.

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Abstract

As forest communities continue to experience interactions between climate change and shifting disturbance regimes, there is anincreased need to link ecological understanding to applied management. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and limber pine (P. flexilis) are important high-elevation five-needle pines in the central and northern Rocky Mountains. Populations of both species face considerable challenges from mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae), white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), and successional displacement resulting from altered natural disturbance regimes.

Parent Publication

Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2017

Citation

Long, James N.; Shaw, John; Windmuller-Campione, Marcella. 2018. Chapter 15 - Composition and structure of whitebark and limber pine stands in the Interior West and the silvicultural implications (Project INT-EM-B-14-01). In: Potter, Kevin M.; Conkling, Barbara L., eds. 2018. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2017. General Technical Report SRS-233. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. Pages 183-186.