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Non-native blister rust disease on whitebark pine at Crater Lake National Park
Northwest science, Vol.77(1), pp.87-91
2003
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/918
Abstract
Crater Lake National Park supports one of the largest aggregations of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) in the southern Cascades, Oregon, USA. The pine is valued by park visitors and is considered a keystone species in local ecosystems. Although white pine blister rust (caused by the introduced fungus Cronartium ribicola) has been in the region since the early 1900s, no formal survey of whitebark pine infection in the park has been conducted to date. We sampled 1200 whitebark pine trees with 24 transects to measure incidence of disease and other damaging agents in the park. Blister rust is currently the most ubiquitous source of mortality for the park's pines, outweighing all other biotic agents combined. The National Park Service is initiating actions to conserve whitebark pine.
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- Title
- Non-native blister rust disease on whitebark pine at Crater Lake National Park
- Creators
- Michael P. Murray (Author)Mary C. Rasmussen (Author)
- Publication Details
- Northwest science, Vol.77(1), pp.87-91
- Academic Unit
- Northwest Science
- Publisher
- WSU Press
- Identifiers
- 99900501021601842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article