2073 Population dynamics of black spruce and white spruce near the arctic tree line in the southern

• Main Authors: Andrea H. Lloyd, Alexis E. Wilson, Christopher L. Fastie, R. Matthew L
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Blanche; Noire; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.419.9785; http://www.lter.uaf.edu/pdf/974_lloyd_wilson_2005.pdf

Abstract: Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) is the dominant species in interior Alaska but it is largely absent from the arctic tree line. To evaluate the importance of climate and fire as controls over the species distribution, we reconstructed stand history at three sites near its northern...