P058: Implications for Conservation, Management, and Restoration of Whitebark Pine in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Evaluates adaptive genetic diversity of forest resources in the Lake Tahoe Basin and identifies patterns of adaptive variation at the landscape-level in order to allow for the detection of the sensitivity, resiliency, and potential vulnerability of populations of white pines to an introduced and invasive pathogen and constitute a valuable tool to design conservation, restoration, and forest health monitoring strategies for these forest tree species. This project takes an ecological and genetic approach to better understand the interaction of landscape characteristics and evolutionary processes on ecologically important plant traits.