Spatial coherence and change of opposite white spruce temperature sensitivities on floodplains in Alaska confirms early-stage boreal biome shift

• Published in: Forest Ecology and Management
• Main Authors: Juday, Glenn, Alix, Claire, Grant, Thomas
• Other Authors: University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Archéologie des Amériques (ArchAm), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: Picea glauca; Alaska; Temperature sensitivity; Climate change; Tree ring; Divergence; Arctic; envir; geo; Fairbanks; McGrath
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.04.016; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01874636

International audience "Since the mid 1970s, Interior Alaska white spruce trees experienced markedly lower growth than during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This observation raises the question of forest persistence on certain sites of lowland central and eastern Alaska. We analyzed white s...