Chapter 13: Implement Interagency Whitebark Pine Monitoring for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem(Project INT-EM-F-12-01)

Kristen L. Legg; Erin Shanahan; Nancy Bockino; Kelly McCloskey; Darren Blackford

Chapter 13: Implement Interagency Whitebark Pine Monitoring for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem(Project INT-EM-F-12-01)

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Kristen L. Legg, Erin Shanahan, Nancy Bockino, Kelly McCloskey, Darren Blackford

Year:

2016

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Potter, Kevin M.; Conkling, Barbara L., eds. 2016. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2015. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-213. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 226 p.

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Abstract

Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) occurs on over 2 million acres in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). As a keystone and foundation species, whitebark pine influences ecosystem functions such as biodiversity, vegetation structure, and hydrology. It has declined throughout its range in the Northern Rockies due to the combined effects of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae), white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), altered fire regimes, and climate change.

Parent Publication

Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2015

Citation

Legg, Kristen L.; Shanahan, Erin; Bokino, Nancy; McCloskey, Kelly; Munson, Steve; Blackford, Darren. 2016. Chapter 13: Implement Interagency Whitebark Pine Monitoring for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem(Project INT-EM-F-12-01) Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-213. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 6 p.