Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera; Salicaceae) Beyond the Tree Line in the Western Canadian Mainland Arctic (Northwest Territories)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Saarela, Jeffery M., Gillespie, Lynn J., Consaul, Laurie L., Bull, Roger D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2012
• Subjects: balsam poplar; tree line; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Populus balsamifera; floristics; phytogeography; climate change; peuplier baumier; limite forestière; Arctique; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; floristique; phytogéographie; changement climatique; Brock River; Nunavut; Arctique*; Climate change; Hornaday River; north slope; Subarctic; Tuktut Nogait National Park; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67208

Balsam poplar is the northernmost tree species in North America, with a reported range that extends generally to the tree line across the continent and beyond the tree line in Alaska, where extralimital stands growing in Arctic ecosystems on the North Slope have been documented and studied. Here we...