How climate and fire disturbances influence contrasted dynamics of Picea glauca ecotones at Alpine tree lines in Atlantic and continental eastern North America

• Main Authors: DE LAFONTAINE, Guillaume, PAYETTE, Serge
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2012
• Subjects: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; Zimmerman; Lafond
• Online Access: https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/156369; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12278/156369; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3797-0_13

White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss.) is considered as the tree most characteristic of the North American boreal forest biome (Takhtajan 1986). Yet, in boreal eastern North America (Québec–Labrador Peninsula) it is rather a secondary, companion species (c. 10 % of the forest cover) of the balsa...