Spatially explicit modelling and prediction of shrub cover increase near Umiujaq, Nunavik.

• Published in: Ecological Monographs
• Main Authors: Lemay, Marc-André, Provencher-Nolet, Laurence, Bernier, Monique, Lévesque, Esther, Boudreau, Stéphane
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic ecology; ecological modelling; land cover change; Landsat; landscape ecology; NDVI; Northern Québec; shrubification; remote sensing; vegetation change model; Arctic; Nunavik; Canada; Umiujaq; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/6909/; https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/6909/1/P3300.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1296

A circumpolar increase in shrub growth and cover has been underway in Arctic and subarctic ecosystems for the last few decades, but there is considerable spatial heterogeneity in this shrubification process. Although topography, hydrology and edaphic factors are known to influence shrubification pat...