Sufficient conditions for climate-driven range expansion of a boreal conifer, Alaska, 2019-2021

• Main Authors: Roman Dial, Colin Maher, Rebecca Hewitt, Patrick Sullivan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2022
• Subjects: boreal forest advance; treeline; white spruce; foliar nutrients; snow; invasion; forest tundra ecotone; Arctic; Alaska; albedo; Arctic Basin; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A24F1MK48

Unprecedented modern rates of warming are expected to advance boreal forest into Arctic tundra, thereby reducing albedo, altering C-cycling (carbon-cycling), and changing global climate, yet the patterns and processes of this biome shift remain unclear. We describe the 20th century colonization of a...