Photo Gallery - Regional Variation in Interior Alaskan Boreal Forests is Driven by Fire Disturbance, Topography, and Climate
Roland CA, Nicklen EF, Schmidt JH, Stehn SE, Winder S. 2019. Photo Gallery - Regional Variation in Interior Alaskan Boreal Forests is Driven by Fire Disturbance, Topography, and Climate. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 100(3):1-10
We developed landscape- scale spatial models of tree species occupancy and abundance in Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve (YCNP), a remote and little-studied region in east- central Alaska. We compared these results with sim-ilar work completed in Denali National Park (see Roland et al. 2013). These two areas are a study in contrasts. Specifically, YCNP is a highly continental region with warmer growing seasons, a topographically diverse lowland landscape, and a considerably greater footprint of recent fire disturbance. Our two study areas thus effectively frame a “natural experiment” that allowed us to examine various hypotheses regarding expected changes in the Alaskan boreal forest due to a rapidly warming climate in Alaska.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Roland, Carl; Nicklen, E.; Schmidt, Joshua; Stehn, Sarah; Winder, Sama
- Units
- DENA , YUCH
- Keywords
- Boreal forest, climate change, fire, landscape-scale, long term monitoring, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, plant ecology, topography