Study seeks to help southwestern white pine navigate climate change, disease
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
A new collaborative project involving Virginia Commonwealth University seeks to understand the ecology and evolutionary history of the southwestern white pine tree – found in the mountains of the southwestern United States and Mexico – so as to help predict the tree species' response to climate change and infestations of an exotic fungal pathogen known as white pine blister rust.