Spatially explicit modeling and prediction of shrub cover increase near Umiujaq, Nunavik

• Published in: Ecological Monographs
• Main Authors: Lemay, Marc‐André, Provencher‐Nolet, Laurence, Bernier, Monique, Lévesque, Esther, Boudreau, Stéphane
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, ArcticNet, Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Nunavik; Umiujaq; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1296; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fecm.1296; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecm.1296

Abstract A circumpolar increase in shrub growth and cover has been underway in Arctic and subarctic ecosystems for the last few decades, but there is considerable spatial heterogeneity in this shrubification process. Although topography, hydrology, and edaphic factors are known to influence shrubifi...