Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America

CS Stevens-Rumann, SJ Prichard… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Wildfire-mediated changes to forests have prompted numerous studies on post-fire forest
recovery of coniferous forests. Given climate change, a growing body of work demonstrates …

Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest

J Wang, AR Taylor… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Large projected increases in forest disturbance pose a major threat to future wood fiber
supply and carbon sequestration in the cold-limited, Canadian boreal forest ecosystem …

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

M Cailleret, S Jansen, EMR Robert… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tree mortality is a key factor influencing forest functions and dynamics, but our
understanding of the mechanisms leading to mortality and the associated changes in tree …

Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

MM Loranty, BW Abbott, D Blok, TA Douglas… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Soils in Arctic and boreal ecosystems store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, a
portion of which may be released as high-latitude soils warm. Some of the uncertainty in the …

Climate change impacts on forest landscapes along the Canadian southern boreal forest transition zone

Y Boulanger, AR Taylor, DT Price, D Cyr… - Landscape …, 2017 - Springer
Context Forest landscapes at the southern boreal forest transition zone are likely to undergo
great alterations due to projected changes in regional climate. Objectives We projected …

Tree growth sensitivity to climate is temporally variable

DMP Peltier, K Ogle - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a long history of discussion of 'non‐stationarity'in dendrochronology, researchers
and modellers in diverse fields commonly rely on the implicit assumption that tree growth …

Negative impacts of high temperatures on growth of black spruce forests intensify with the anticipated climate warming

MP Girardin, EH Hogg, PY Bernier… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of studies conclude that water limitations and heat stress may hinder
the capacity of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) trees, a dominant species of …

Effects of fire severity and post-fire climate on short-term vegetation recovery of mixed-conifer and red fir forests in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California

R Meng, PE Dennison, C Huang, MA Moritz… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Forest ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California are greatly influenced by
wildfire as a natural disturbance, and increased fire severity and drought occurrence may …

[HTML][HTML] Global tree growth resilience to cold extremes following the Tambora volcanic eruption

S Gao, JJ Camarero, F Babst, E Liang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Although the global climate is warming, external forcing driven by explosive volcanic
eruptions may still cause abrupt cooling. The 1809 and 1815 Tambora eruptions caused …

Relationships between individual‐tree mortality and water‐balance variables indicate positive trends in water stress‐induced tree mortality across North America

RA Hember, WA Kurz, NC Coops - Global Change Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Accounting for water stress‐induced tree mortality in forest productivity models remains a
challenge due to uncertainty in stress tolerance of tree populations. In this study, logistic …