Resilience of Alaska’s boreal forest to climatic change1

Resilience of Athabascan subsistence systems to interior Alaska’s changing climate1

Subsistence harvesting and wild food production by Athabascan peoples is part of an integrated social–ecological system of interior Alaska. We describe effects of recent trends and future climate change projections on the boreal ecosystem of interior Alaska and relate changes in ecosystem services to Athabascan subsistence. We focus primarily on moose, a keystone terrestrial subsistence resourc...

Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming La dynamique des forêts boréales d’Alaska : résilience et vulnérabilité en réponse au réchauffement climatique Special Editors

Remote Sensing Techniques in Monitoring Post-Fire Effects and Patterns of Forest Recovery in Boreal Forest Regions: A Review

The frequency and severity of forest fires, coupled with changes in spatial and temporal precipitation and temperature patterns, are likely to severely affect the characteristics of forest and permafrost patterns in boreal eco-regions. Forest fires, however, are also an ecological factor in how forest ecosystems form and function, as they affect the rate and characteristics of tree recruitment....

Is Alaska’s Boreal Forest Now Crossing a Major Ecological Threshold?

Daniel H. Mann*§ Many boreal forests grow in regions where climate is now warming rapidly. Changes in T. Scott Rupp† these vast, cold forests have the potential to affect global climate because they store huge Mark A. Olson† and amounts of carbon and because the relative abundances of their different tree species Paul A. Duffy‡ influence how much solar radiation reflects back to space. Both the...

The effect of altered macroclimate on N-fixation by boreal feather mosses.

Plant productivity is predicted to increase in boreal forests owing to climate change, but this may depend on whether N inputs from biological N-fixation also increases. We evaluated how alteration of climatic factors affects N input from a widespread boreal N-fixer, i.e. cyanobacteria associated with the feather moss Pleurozium schreberi. In each of 10 forest stands in northern Sweden, we esta...