Sentences with phrase «elevation whitebark»

The beetle is now wiping out a whole ecosystem, high - elevation whitebark pine forests, that saw only limited beetle outbreaks during warm spells in the past.

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But this new study by a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin - Madison has found that the warming temperatures have resulted in mountain pine beetles increasingly invading high - elevation forests, like the whitebark pine forests of the northern Rocky Mountains, and attacking them.

However, this will be a factor only if the insect is still able to enter the winter in its cold - hardy stage; this may be occurring in high - elevation forest types such as whitebark and limber pine.

Warming temperatures allow the native beetle to thrive in previously inhospitable high - elevation forests, where the insect bores into and kills whitebark pine trees.