Pinus ponderosa


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Noun1.Pinus ponderosa - common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when maturePinus ponderosa - common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
yellow pine - any of various pines having yellow wood
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* Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), the only host of WPB in the area, suffered highest levels of tree mortality, from 18.2% to 100% per plot.
The location (46.92226[degrees]N, 113.96020[degrees]W; 1090 m elevation) was under an open canopy of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) with very little shrub understory, about 40 m from a water-filled irrigation ditch and <100 m from Rattlesnake Creek and associated riparian habitat.
Kiln dried lumber of red oak (Quercus rubra L), black gum (Nyssa sylvatica Z), soft maple (Acer rubrum L), hard maple (Acer saccharum L), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa L), and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb) Franco) were obtained and cut into 25 by 25 by 400-mm-long beams that were free of knots, stains, or other defects.
Although ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests are believed to have evolved under low to moderate severity wildfire regimes (Brown and Sieg, 1999), high severity fires have also recently been recognized as essential to historical fire regimes that maintain ecological diversity (Arno et al., 2000; Odion et al., 2014; Hutto et al., 2016).
Efecto del control de malezas sobre el prendimiento y crecimiento inicial de plantaciones de Pinus ponderosa en la Patagonia Argentina.
Pinyon pine (Pinus edulis), Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana), one-seed juniper (Juniperus scopulorum), and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) predominate along the rims and upper canyon walls (Menzel and Covington, 1997).
Gilbertson (1974) la menciono creciendo sobre Pinus ponderosa Dougl.
Nosetto et al (2006) observed that the afforestation with Pinus Ponderosa species in Patagonia region caused an increase in above and below-ground carbon pool.