Swaths of dead
whitebarks now stretch across the landscape, their telltale red needles bearing witness to the unprecedented impacts of climate change in this iconic ecosystem.
Not exact matches
«A weaker defense system may also be why we are seeing a strong preference
now by the beetle for
whitebark pine over lodgepole pine, which has long been its preferred host.»
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.