ARCTIC The High Subarctic Forest-Tundra of Northwestern Canada: Position, Width, and Vegetation Gradients in Relation to Climate

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Great Slave Lake; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Northwest Territories; Yukon; Subarctic; subarctique*; toundra; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.584.9213; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic45-1-1.pdf

ABSTRACT. A phytogeoclimatic study of the high subarctic region of Canada between Hudson Bay and the Cordillera at the northern Yukon-Mackenzie border was undertaken to provide a verifiable and quantitative synthesis of forest-tundra vegetation ecology. Three field seasons of vegetation and terrain...