Landscape Assessment of the Decline of Whitebark pine (pinusa tbi caulis) in the Bob Marshal Wilderness Complex, Montana, USA
Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: whit$u|LPine(P'nLiz/}irulr)prolrlsirnporra LnlrrinhigheJelatirlri:cosvstems0ilh.noth$estenlL]niledStales'lil||jl]northenRol|i]tounlains.this5peCiesisheinllduced rr acceleratrrl .!les bl blisr(jr frsl sion r.srlrins tuom fir.,ixclusion.This sLulr elaluates th.,ixknr dd se!.irir!ol rhe de.Lihi of$hirebdk pinj in rhe Botr ttarst,u I \ l.l, r'r, --| "mpl-,,tj\lIr ,,t \1,,r, J1r.nF-ulr-.,rJ,",\r'n-i\ptpt.t,r1,rof\.i.,r-"hrr..h:rrkti.r,1,r1 nr1 .;-",n .-". to cvlluate pasr a,rj .urrenrshireblrk pine poruldri,,n 1,1,.1\!Jr"lLr,.InrE, n rL.qNDs{T TN'l data \r.r.uscd in cohju.ri,,rwith llcld data r.r.l$silv l'1 Btr'l\\ C sutralpine coro trpes and 3 f.ri,sr(lecine.lass(ist{),lerecr exrdL,)l shitebark m,rratirv jD th.j stud'-ar.r-ResulrsDdi.at.shilebark pire |opularior levels urc rapidlv decfuasing.mostll as a rcsulr ofthe eroric disea-.eblisr,.rrusL.field results sLo$ 8)9'l ofthc 2.503 sarnpled $hitebark pnre frr:s are nrferred rvnh b[ster rusr a, u a'erage ot 33% ol rheir.ro(rshave beeD kill.dtv lhe diseas,i.Rcsuhs ofdre saLrllite image.lassiliQrionshori $hirebrrk pire dohinanr on;60/0 oI rh.i 3l 1.257 hecraR's (ionprising rh{: BN'lWC subabi,r.an.lrsis area.Srbllpine fir doninard .high prorortion 0lq,) of rhis landscape, aborrL 7olo greater rha,, ;t" hislorical larrls(rpe romposirion.Approxinar.l\ 22olo ofrhis la lsQpe contairiag whirebarl !ineiSno!ljxIlcriencnlghigh'l,t|!|jt!anil39t%isexperiencilgullerareInonaliLv'C|6sifcatn'la talion.or.ir rrpes dd 7B% lor the {orest d,r.ljrc chsse-..
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture
OpenAlex ID: W2252670055