Climate change impacts on forest landscapes along the Canadian southern boreal forest transition zone

Potential near-future carbon uptake overcomes losses from a large insect outbreak in British Columbia, Canada

(2016) Vivek K. Arora et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Model-specification uncertainty in future forest pest outbreak

(2016) Yan Boulanger et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

(2016) Janet Franklin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vulnerability of timber supply to projected changes in fire regime in Canada’s managed forests

(2015) S. Gauthier et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Climate change-associated tree mortality increases without decreasing water availability

(2015) Yong Luo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Negative impacts of high temperatures on growth of black spruce forests intensify with the anticipated climate warming

(2015) Martin P. Girardin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Net aboveground biomass declines of four major forest types with forest ageing and climate change in western Canada's boreal forests

(2015) Han Y. H. Chen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Measuring and managing resistance and resilience under climate change in northern Great Lake forests (USA)

(2015) Matthew J. Duveneck et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Half-century evidence from western Canada shows forest dynamics are primarily driven by competition followed by climate

(2015) Jian Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

If forest dynamics in Canada’s west are driven mainly by competition, why did they change? Half-century evidence says: Climate change

(2015) David T. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Boreal forest health and global change

(2015) S. Gauthier et al.   SCIENCE

Geographic range predicts photosynthetic and growth response to warming in co-occurring tree species

(2015) Peter B. Reich et al.   Nature Climate Change

The changing water cycle: the Boreal Plains ecozone of Western Canada

(2015) A. M. Ireson et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Soil characteristics mediate the distribution and response of boreal trees to climatic variability

(2014) Sylvie Gewehr et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Annual mapping of large forest disturbances across Canada’s forests using 250 m MODIS imagery from 2000 to 2011

(2014) L. Guindon et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Environmental controls of the northern distribution limit of yellow birch in eastern Canada

(2014) Igor Drobyshev et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Mapping attributes of Canada’s forests at moderate resolution through kNN and MODIS imagery

(2014) A. Beaudoin et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A refinement of models projecting future Canadian fire regimes using homogeneous fire regime zones

(2014) Yan Boulanger et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Disturbance legacies increase the resilience of forest ecosystem structure, composition, and functioning

(2014) Rupert Seidl et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Spatial climate models for Canada’s forestry community

(2014) Daniel McKenney et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Boreal mixedwood stand dynamics: ecological processes underlying multiple pathways

(2014) Yves Bergeron et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Past and projected future changes in moisture conditions in the Canadian boreal forest

(2014) Yonghe Wang et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Digital mapping of soil properties in Canadian managed forests at 250m of resolution using the k-nearest neighbor method

(2014) Nicolas Mansuy et al.   GEODERMA

Stand history is more important than climate in controlling red maple (Acer rubrumL.) growth at its northern distribution limit in western Quebec, Canada

(2014) Yun Zhang et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Shifting with climate? Evidence for recent changes in tree species distribution at high latitudes

(2014) Laura Boisvert-Marsh et al.   Ecosphere

Temperate tree expansion into adjacent boreal forest patches facilitated by warmer temperatures

(2013) Nicholas A. Fisichelli et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling

(2013) Robert E. Keane et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems

(2013) David T. Price et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

An introduction to Canada’s boreal zone: ecosystem processes, health, sustainability, and environmental issues

(2013) J.P. Brandt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Carbon in Canada’s boreal forest — A synthesis

(2013) W.A. Kurz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Assessing the stability of tree ranges and influence of disturbance in eastern US forests

(2013) C.W. Woodall et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Exploring tree species colonization potentials using a spatially explicit simulation model: implications for four oaks under climate change

(2013) Anantha M. Prasad et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Disturbance legacies and climate jointly drive tree growth and mortality in an intensively studied boreal forest

(2013) Ben Bond-Lamberty et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

When relationships estimated in the past cannot be used to predict the future: using mechanistic models to predict landscape ecological dynamics in a changing world

(2013) Eric J. Gustafson   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Impact of Future Climate on Radial Growth of Four Major Boreal Tree Species in the Eastern Canadian Boreal Forest

(2013) Jian-Guo Huang et al.   PLoS One

Will plant movements keep up with climate change?

(2013) Richard T. Corlett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Observations from old forests underestimate climate change effects on tree mortality

(2013) Yong Luo et al.   Nature Communications

Modelling the effects of climate change and timber harvest on the forests of central Nova Scotia, Canada

(2012) James W. N. Steenberg et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Dendrochronological reconstruction of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreaks in southern Quebec for the last 400 years1This article is one of a selection of papers from the 7th International Conference on Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests.

(2012) Yan Boulanger et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Potential changes in forest composition could reduce impacts of climate change on boreal wildfires

(2012) Aurélie Terrier et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

(2011) Detlef P. van Vuuren et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift

(2011) Pieter S. A. Beck et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Risk of severe climate change impact on the terrestrial biosphere

(2011) Ursula Heyder et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Modifying climate change habitat models using tree species-specific assessments of model uncertainty and life history-factors

(2011) Stephen N. Matthews et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Once burned, twice shy: Repeat fires reduce seed availability and alter substrate constraints on Picea mariana regeneration

(2011) Carissa D. Brown et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Revisiting projected shifts in the climate envelopes of North American trees using updated general circulation models

(2011) DANIEL W. McKENNEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in the parkland-boreal forest boundary in northwestern Ontario over the Holocene

(2011) Melissa T. Moos et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A drought-induced pervasive increase in tree mortality across Canada's boreal forests

(2011) Changhui Peng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Increasing potential NEP of eastern boreal North American forests constrained by decreasing wildfire activity

(2011) M. P. Girardin et al.   Ecosphere

Predicting insect distributions under climate change from physiological responses: spruce budworm as an example

(2010) Jacques Régnière et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest

(2010) MICHAEL MICHAELIAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Northward migrating trees establish in treefall gaps at the northern limit of the temperate–boreal ecotone, Ontario, Canada

(2010) Mark D. Leithead et al.   OECOLOGIA

Recent Widespread Tree Growth Decline Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2

(2010) Lucas C. R. Silva et al.   PLoS One

MigClim: Predicting plant distribution and dispersal in a changing climate

(2009) Robin Engler et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Will environmental changes reinforce the impact of global warming on the prairie–forest border of central North America?

(2009) Lee E Frelich et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Use of tree rings to study the effect of climate change on trembling aspen in Québec

(2009) MARIE-PIERRE LAPOINTE-GARANT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Niches, models, and climate change: Assessing the assumptions and uncertainties

(2009) J. A. Wiens et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simulated effects of climate change, fragmentation, and inter-specific competition on tree species migration in northern Wisconsin, USA

(2008) RM Scheller et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations

(2008) Sally N. Aitken et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Rapid responses of the prairie-forest ecotone to early Holocene aridity in mid-continental North America

(2008) John W. Williams et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges

(2007) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS