Sentences with phrase «highest pinyon»

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Shaded microsite areas found below mature pinyon pine canopies (or overstory) have lower soil temperature and retain higher soil moisture content, both of which are fundamental to new tree regeneration.

So ecologist Henry Adams, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona (U.A.) in Tucson, and his colleagues decided to test the effect of higher average temperatures on the pinyon, Pinus edulis.

She'd come upon a tree stand tucked about fifteen feet high in a pinyon, with tree steps still in place.

The authors showed that a widespread, severe drought - and - beetle - induced die - off of pinyon pine in the American Southwest was exacerbated by higher average temperatures, relative to past episodes of drought.