Forest Dynamics
Southwest Alaska Network. 2018. Forest Dynamics. Southwest Alaska Network
White spruce (Picea glauca) forests are an important landscape component in Lake Clark and Katmai national parks and preserves and are monitored under the vital sign Vegetation Composition and Structure. Warming since the 1980s has led to increased spruce beetle-related mortality in older, denser forest stands, but also to increases in spruce growth and establishment in more open sites, particularly near the forest-tundra margin.
- Type
- Resource Brief
- Authors
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Date of Issue
- 2018-03
- Publisher
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Units
- KATM , LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- establishment, forest, white spruce
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Forest/Woodland Communities , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Vegetation Complex