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Climatic change and disturbance by fire in boreal and sub-alpine forests
Suffling
Studies of anticipated effects of global warming tend to concentrate on the physiological limits of individual organisms, and imputed modifications to biome distributions expresed as climax ecosystems. Changes in distributions of individual species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Postfire vegetation recovery and tree establishment at the Arctic tree-line: climatic-change-vegetation-response hypotheses
Landhausser, Wein
1. A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. 2. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Postglacial vegetation and climate of Grand Teton and the southern Yellowstone National Park
Whitlock
Pollen records from northern Grand Teton National Park, the Pinyon Peak Highlands, and southern Yellowstone National Park were examined to study the pattern of reforestation and climatic change following late-Pinedale Glaciation. The vegetational…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Length of a fire season in a changing climate
Wotton, Flannigan
The Canadian Climate Centre's General Circulation Model provides two 10-year data sets of simulated daily weather for a large array of gridpoints across North America. A subset of this data, comprised of only those points within the forested part of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Multicentury, regional-scale patterns of western spruce budworm outbreaks
Swetnam, Lynch
Tree ring chronologies from 24 mixed-conifer stands were used to reconstruct the long-term history of western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis) in northern New Mexico. Temporal and spatial patterns of budworm infestations (within-stand…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Forest wildfires as a recent source of CO2 at northern latitudes
Auclair, Carter
Since 1977, the extent of forest wildfires in the boreal and western regions of North America increased by 6 to 9x over long-term trends, and an estimated 132x106 ha of temperate and boreal forest burned across the northern hemisphere. Emissions…
Year: 1993
Type: Document

Vegetation responses to past climatic variation
Prentice
Vegetation responses to climatic change can be studied retrospectively by utilizing the Quaternary fossil record. There has been controversy over the extent to which major changes in vegetation patterns at the continental scale lag behind the…
Year: 1986
Type: Document

Responses of tree populations to climatic change
Brubaker
The influence of climate on the population dynamics of trees must be inferred from indirect sources of information because the long lifespans of trees preclude direct observation of population growth and decline. Important insights about these…
Year: 1986
Type: Document