The climate envelope of Alaska’s northern treelines: implications for controlling factors and future treeline advance. Primary data and analyses 2019 - 2021

• Main Authors: Colin Maher, Roman Dial, Neal Pastick, Rebecca Hewitt, M. Torre Jorgenson, Patrick Sullivan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: tundra-taiga ecotone; Growth limitation hypothesis; boreal forest; permafrost; Picea Picea glauca; Picea glauca; taiga; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:8d23fe20-7e4d-46fc-bf06-522de4c1a0db

Understanding the key mechanisms that control northern treelines is important to accurately predict biome shifts and terrestrial feedbacks to climate. At a global scale, it has long been observed that elevational and latitudinal treelines occur at similar mean growing season air temperature (GSAT) i...