Sentences with phrase «mountain lodgepole»

The South Hills crossbill coevolved for the past 6,000 years with the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine.

The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a coevolutionary arms race that also changed the tree, according to a genomic study led by Tom Parchman, a biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Not exact matches

The ghost tree of Railroad Ridge Somewhere in the Cloud Mountains of central Idaho, high above a sea of spruce and lodgepole pine, a jagged crest of peaks called Railroad Ridge juts up against the sky.

Beginning in late summer along high altitude sites in the eastern Colorado Rocky Mountains, for instance, swarms of hundreds or even thousands of these small black bugs will single out individual lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta) or related trees, then advance on them en masse.

The mountain pine beetle's historic host is the lodgepole pine that is found in lower elevations.

Despite having a strong defense system, the mountain pine beetles prefer feeding on lodgepole pine trees suggesting that they have not yet adjusted its host preference to whitebark pine.

The mountain pine beetle infestation that's killing off all the lodgepole pine trees in B.C. is due to the Winters no longer getting cold enough to kill the beetles off.

A few years ago, Six was stunned to find sites where the mountain pine beetle was skipping right over lower - altitude stands of lodgepole pines, to focus on and kill whitebark pine stands at higher altitudes.

An outbreak of the mountain pine beetle in 2006 killed 5 million lodgepole pines in one year, a four-fold increase over 2005.

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Lodgepole pines are one of the species in the Rocky Mountains that have adapted well to frequent fires in the region.

Research published by Veblen and Clark University's Dominik Kulakowski in 2015 found that «the best available science indicates that outbreaks of bark beetles do not increase the risk of high - severity fires in lodgepole pine and spruce - fir forests of the Rocky Mountains.»

What may be true for lodgepole pine forests in the Rocky Mountains may not be true for mixed conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada, he said.