Diana F. Tomback, Professor and Associate Chair in Integrative Biology and Director of the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation, and her graduate students presented four oral presentations and a poster paper based on recent research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem at The 13th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, held at Jackson Lake Lodge, Grand Teton National Park, WY, October 4 – 6, 2016:

Elizabeth Pansing (PhD Student) Use of direct seeding to restore subalpine and treeline whitebark pine in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: planting site influences germination and survival.

Andres Andrade (PhD Student) Understory recovery following the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: nearly three decades of succession.

Aaron Wagner (MS Student) The ecosystem function of whitebark pine and pathogen disturbance in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  

Marian Lea (MS Student) Developing microsatellites for whitebark pine and application to measuring recovery of genetic diversity following the 1988 Yellowstone Fires.

Diana Tomback - Forest health threats cascade upwards: Modelling whitebark pine treeline community response to exotic disease and diminished seed production in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.