Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East

• Published in: Forests
• Main Authors: Clara Deck, Gregory Wiles, Sarah Frederick, Vladimir Matsovsky, Tatiana Kuderina, Rosanna D’Arrigo, Olga Solomina, Nicholas Wiesenberg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2017
• Subjects: dendrochronology; dendroclimatology; Kamchatka; tree rings; Betula ermanii; Larix gmelinii; Plant ecology; QK900-989; Pacific; Kamchatka Peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/f8090315; https://doaj.org/article/c7d2d2f9f3f54342b0f699f9bb9314f1

Kamchatka’s forests span across the peninsula’s diverse topography and provide a wide range of physiographic and elevational settings that can be used to investigate how forests are responding to climate change and to anticipate future response. Birch (Betula ermanii Cham.) and larch (Larix gmelinii...