Boreal forest health and global change

S Gauthier, P Bernier, T Kuuluvainen, AZ Shvidenko… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The boreal forest, one of the largest biomes on Earth, provides ecosystem services that
benefit society at levels ranging from local to global. Currently, about two-thirds of the area …

Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of western North American forests

PF Hessburg, CL Miller, SA Parks, NA Povak… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North
American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest

JL Baltzer, NJ Day, XJ Walker… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Intensifying wildfire activity and climate change can drive rapid forest compositional shifts. In
boreal North America, black spruce shapes forest flammability and depends on fire for …

Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century

CC Hanes, X Wang, P Jain, MA Parisien… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Contemporary fire regimes of Canadian forests have been well documented based on forest
fire records between the late 1950s to 1990s. Due to known limitations of fire datasets, an …

Attribution of the influence of human‐induced climate change on an extreme fire season

MC Kirchmeier‐Young, NP Gillett, FW Zwiers… - Earth's …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A record 1.2 million ha burned in British Columbia, Canada's extreme wildfire season of
2017. Key factors in this unprecedented event were the extreme warm and dry conditions …

Molecular composition and photochemical lifetimes of brown carbon chromophores in biomass burning organic aerosol

LT Fleming, P Lin, JM Roberts… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
To better understand the effects of wildfires on air quality and climate, it is important to
assess the occurrence of chromophoric compounds in smoke and characterize their optical …

Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

I Aubin, AD Munson, F Cardou, PJ Burton… - Environmental …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to
quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate …

Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?

D Stralberg, D Arseneault, JL Baltzer… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The vast boreal biome plays an important role in the global carbon cycle but is experiencing
particularly rapid climate warming, threatening the integrity of valued ecosystems and their …