Towards a Tipping Point in Responding to Change: Rising Costs, Fewer Options for Arctic and Global Societies

Alaska’s changing fire regime — implications for the vulnerability of its boreal forestsThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

(2010) Eric S. Kasischke et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Regime shifts in ecological systems can occur with no warning

(2010) Alan Hastings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a 'beyond 4 C world' in the twenty-first century

(2010) R. J. Nicholls et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Vulnerability of carbon storage in North American boreal forests to wildfires during the 21st century

(2009) M. S. BALSHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in fire regime break the legacy lock on successional trajectories in Alaskan boreal forest

(2009) JILL F. JOHNSTONE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

Coupling of CO2 and Ice Sheet Stability Over Major Climate Transitions of the Last 20 Million Years

(2009) A. K. Tripati et al.   SCIENCE

Increasing Wildfire in Alaska's Boreal Forest: Pathways to Potential Solutions of a Wicked Problem

(2008) F. Stuart Chapin et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Impacts of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest

(2008) MIKE FLANNIGAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY