Author: Merry Grace Lepper
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Pinus Flexilis James and it Environmental Relationships
Author: Merry Grace Lepper
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Publisher:
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Pinus Flexilis James, and Its Environmental Relationships
Author: Merry Grace Lepper
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Category : Limber pine
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Limber pine
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Pinus Flexilis James, and Its Environmental Relationships
Author: Merry Grace Lepper
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Breeding and Genetic Resources of Five-needle Pines
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Category : Blister rust
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : Blister rust
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Proceedings RMRS.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Packrat Middens
Author: Julio L. Betancourt
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.
Tree Growth on the Snake River Floodplain, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Author: Charles A. Reher
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Category : Dendrochronology
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Dendrochronology
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Vegetation-environment Relationships of Woodland and Shrub Communities, and Soil Algae in Western North Dakota
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Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Forests and Their Interactions with the Environment
Author: Sofia Valenzuela
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889742024
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889742024
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Response of Pinus Flexilis James Seedlings to Simulated Climate Change Through Gas Exchange Rates, Phenology and Morphology
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Anthropogenic climate change in the western U.S. involves increasing temperatures, decreasing water availability and increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Predicting how subalpine forests will respond to climate change is complicated by variation in intraspecific responses. To address the question of whether subalpine tree populations will be able to tolerate future climatic conditions within their current distribution, I compared the physiological, phenological and morphological response of seedlings of two limber pine (Pinus flexilis James) mitochondrial haplotypes (narrow and wide-ranging) to simulated climate change. I conducted a 15-week growth chamber experiment on seedlings under low light conditions and two temperature treatments: ambient (recent climate conditions) and heated (ambient +5°C). I recorded the timing of developmental stages and measured seedling net photosynthetic and dark respiration rates, total biomass, root to shoot mass and length, specific leaf area (SLA) and specific root length (SRL). I found that the ambient chamber had greater average rates of net photosynthesis and dark respiration. Between haplotypes, there was a marginally significant difference in net photosynthesis and a significant difference in dark respiration. There were significant morphological differences between the haplotypes and chambers in root to shoot mass and SLA. Seedlings in the heated chamber germinated, on average, two weeks earlier than in the heated chamber and experienced a five-fold increase in mortality rate. The results of this experiment suggests that limber pine seedlings growing in the shade in a 5°C warmer climate will suffer near zero carbon balance, increased mortality, and will experience a longer growing season.
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Anthropogenic climate change in the western U.S. involves increasing temperatures, decreasing water availability and increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Predicting how subalpine forests will respond to climate change is complicated by variation in intraspecific responses. To address the question of whether subalpine tree populations will be able to tolerate future climatic conditions within their current distribution, I compared the physiological, phenological and morphological response of seedlings of two limber pine (Pinus flexilis James) mitochondrial haplotypes (narrow and wide-ranging) to simulated climate change. I conducted a 15-week growth chamber experiment on seedlings under low light conditions and two temperature treatments: ambient (recent climate conditions) and heated (ambient +5°C). I recorded the timing of developmental stages and measured seedling net photosynthetic and dark respiration rates, total biomass, root to shoot mass and length, specific leaf area (SLA) and specific root length (SRL). I found that the ambient chamber had greater average rates of net photosynthesis and dark respiration. Between haplotypes, there was a marginally significant difference in net photosynthesis and a significant difference in dark respiration. There were significant morphological differences between the haplotypes and chambers in root to shoot mass and SLA. Seedlings in the heated chamber germinated, on average, two weeks earlier than in the heated chamber and experienced a five-fold increase in mortality rate. The results of this experiment suggests that limber pine seedlings growing in the shade in a 5°C warmer climate will suffer near zero carbon balance, increased mortality, and will experience a longer growing season.