Changing Forests in a Warming World

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2011

Authors

Johnstone, Jill
Hollingsworth, Teresa N.
Chapin III, F Stuart
Mack, Michelle

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Abstract

Severe fires can dramatically alter the future growth of a spruce forest. A severe fire is likely to change the forest to one dominated by broadleaf deciduous trees, especially in drier places.

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Climate Change

Citation

Johnstone, J. F., Hollingsworth, T. N., Chapin III, F. S., & Mack, M. C. (2010). Changes in fire regime break the legacy lock on successional trajectories in Alaskan boreal forest. Global Change Biology, 16(4), 1281-1295.