The importance of ecological constraints on the control of multi‐species treeline dynamics in eastern Nunavik, Québec

• Published in: American Journal of Botany
• Main Authors: Dufour‐Tremblay, Geneviève, De Vriendt, Laurent, Lévesque, Esther, Boudreau, Stéphane
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Kangiqsualujjuaq; Nunavik; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1200279; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.3732%2Fajb.1200279; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.3732/ajb.1200279/fullpdf

• Premise of the study: Treelines are temperature‐sensitive ecotones that should be able to expand in response to global warming; however, they are also controlled by ecological constraints. These constraints can create bottlenecks for tree regeneration, hindering treeline advances. Near Kangiqsualu...