Sentences with phrase «in subalpine forests»
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She started with mice, putting 126 bodies into individual containers with soil from three places: a short grass prairie and a subalpine lodgepole pine forest in Colorado, and a desert in Texas.
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The new study, led by the expert Andrea Hevia, researcher at CETEMAS - Asturias, analysed temporary changes in the chemical composition of annual growth tree rings in the Pyrenees, in particular those in subalpine black pine (Pinus uncinata) forests in the national parks in Ordesa and Monte Perdido, and Aigüestortes and Estany de Sant Maurici.
Other conifer forest types found in Montana are spruce - fir forest (primarily composed of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), as well as forests dominated by western larch (Larix occidentalis), grand fir (Abies grandis), limber pine (Pinus flexilis), and miscellaneous western softwoods.
Subalpine forests, dominated by Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir species or by lodgepole pine mixed with limber pine or whitebark pine in drSubalpine forests, dominated by Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir species or by lodgepole pine mixed with limber pine or whitebark pine in drsubalpine fir species or by lodgepole pine mixed with limber pine or whitebark pine in drier sites
Chute to View drops us into the subalpine forest, followed by Home Run and then Showdown, which descends in big loops skier's right of the Gondola.
With respect to why there was a significant increase in tree density over the past several decades, Dolanc offers that the changes in the density and composition of lower - elevation forests are consistent with fire suppression; but that the density increases in high - elevation vegetation types (subalpine forests generally don't burn) are «more likely to be caused by changing climate.»
Schoennagel, T., (2005) ENSO and PDO Variability Affect Drought?induced Fire Occurrence in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests.
«Research conducted thus far has consistently indicated that weather and climate are more important than the effects of outbreaks in determining fire risk and behavior in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests,» wrote Veblen and Kulakowski.