Is a Bristlecone Pine a Great Basin Tree?
“but i thought it was a great basin bristlecone pine tree?”
Summary
The Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) is a distinct, long‑lived species native to Utah, Nevada and eastern California. It is the tree referenced in the claim, confirming that it is indeed a Great Basin bristlecone pine.
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- Great Basin bristlecone pine mortality: Causal factors and management implications - ScienceDirect
Life history strategies of Great Basin bristlecone pine that contribute to its longevity include physiological traits that enhance survival in harsh and dry habitats, and defensive traits that make it less vulnerable than other high-elevation pines to tree-killing bark beetles.
- Bristlecone Pines - Great Basin National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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- Great Basin Bristlecone Pine - Bryce Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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- Defense traits in the long‐lived Great Basin bristlecone pine and resistance to the native herbivore mountain pine beetle - PMC
P < 0.0001) pines, but there were no differences in density between GB bristlecone and foxtail pines (sapwood: t 141 = −1.24, Adj. P = 0.4315; heartwood: t 141 = −1.61, Adj. P = 0.2455) (Fig. 5). Sapwood and heartwood densities declined with tree age (Table S8), and both were positively correlated with phloem thickness (P < 0.0001) (Table S7). ... Mean (± SE) sapwood and heartwood density of Great Basin (GB) bristlecone, foxtail and limber pines after accounting for age effects.
- Great Basin bristlecone pine | FWS.gov
Great Basin bristlecone pines are one of the oldest living organisms in the world.
- Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Great Basin bristlecone pine · Kingdom · Plantae · Genus · Pinus · Species · Pinus longaeva ·
- Rocky Mountain Research Station | US Forest Service Research and Development
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- Revisiting Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the Stansbury Mountains, Utah | US Forest Service Research and Development
These stands are removed from the nearest bristlecone populations in other mountain ranges by a distance of approximately 120 km; as such, they represent a unique outlier population of the species. We used GPS data to create a geographic information system (GIS) database delineating the 5 stands we identified, and we sampled tree age and size in one of the stands for comparison with other bristlecone pine populations in the Great Basin.
- Bristlecone pine - Wikipedia
Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in Utah, Nevada and eastern California. The famous longest-lived species; often the term bristlecone pine refers to this tree in particular.
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