Climate change may cause reduced forest productivity and higher tree mortality due to water deficits that result from increased evapotranspiration. Such limitations may occur in some areas of the North American boreal forest where precipitation is low and warming trends are high. This paper...
Author(s)
Hynes, A.; Hamann, A.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Forest Ecology and Management, 2020, 461,
The Moose Horn Pass Caribou Fence site (KjRx-1) consists of three wooden fences located in a remote area of the Mackenzie Mountains in Canada's Northwest Territories. Situated in the traditional homeland of the Shúhtagot'ine (Mountain Dene), they were used to assist past hunters to harvest northern ...
Author(s)
Beckhusen, G.; Stuart, G.; Andrew, L.; MacKay, G.; Andrews, T.; Laroque, C.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Forests, 2022, 13, 2,
Under climate change circumstances, increasing studies have reported the temporal instability of tree growth responses to climate, which poses a major challenge to linearly extrapolating past climate and future growth dynamics using tree-ring data. Space-for-time substitution (SFTS) is a potential...
Author(s)
Wu Fang; Jiang Yuan; Zhao ShouDong; Wen Yan; Li WenQing; Kang MuYi
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Global Change Biology, 2022, 28, 17, pp 5172-5184
Many forest tree species have characteristics that make the study of their evolutionary ecology complex. For example, they are long-lived and thus have long generation times, and their often large, complex genomes have hampered establishing genomic resources. One way to tackle this challenge is to...
Author(s)
Opgenoorth, L.; Rellstab, C.
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Molecular Ecology, 2021, 30, 16, pp 3893-3895
Research Highlights: This research presents a novel approach for comparing structural carbon allocation to tree growth and to climate in a dendrochronological analysis. Increasing temperatures reduced the carbon proportion of wood in some cases. Background and Objectives: Our goal was to estimate...
Author(s)
Ivanusic, A.; Wood, L. J.; Lewis, K.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Forests, 2020, 11, 8,
With climate change, increasingly intense and frequent drought episodes will be affecting water availability for boreal tree species, prompting tree breeders and forest managers to consider adaptation to drought stress as a priority in their reforestation efforts. We used a 19-year-old polycross...
Author(s)
Laverdière, J. P.; Lenz, P.; Nadeau, S.; Depardieu, C.; Isabel, N.; Perron, M.; Beaulieu, J.; Bousquet, J.
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Evolutionary Applications, 2022, 15, 3, pp 383-402
Understanding the magnitude and cause of variation in tree growth and forest productivity is central to sustainable forest management. Measurements of annual growth rings allow assessments of individual-tree, tree population, and forest ecosystem vulnerabilities to drought stress or other changing...
Author(s)
Girardin, M. P.; Guo XiaoJing; Metsaranta, J.; Gervais, D.; Campbell, E.; Arsenault, A.; Isaac-Renton, M.; Harvey, J. E.; Bhatti, J.; Hogg, E. H.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing, Ontario, Canada
Citation
Environmental Reviews, 2021, 29, 2, pp 225-241
Knowledge on the adaptation of trees to rapid environmental changes is essential to preserve forests and their ecosystem services under climate change. Treeline populations are particularly suitable for studying adaptation processes in trees, as environmental stress together with reduced gene flow...
Author(s)
Zacharias, M.; Pampuch, T.; Heer, K.; Avanzi, C.; Würth, D. G.; Trouillier, M.; Bog, M.; Wilmking, M.; Schnittler, M.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 798,
This proceedings contain 8 papers providing insight into some current avenues of Canadian tree-ring research, and illustrates the breadth and confidence of dendrochronological investigations in Canada. Topics covered include: using dendrochronology to date the Val Comeau canoe, New Brunswick and...
Publisher
Elsevier GmbH, München, Germany
Citation
Dendrochronologia, 2011, 29, 1, pp 1-63
Climate change is impacting surficial geomorphic processes, especially in sensitive areas such as the sub-Arctic. One of the most common examples involves landslides, which often develop in glacio-isostatically raised marine clays in northeastern Canada. One of these sites, an expansive area of...
Author(s)
Owczarek, P.; Opała-Owczarek, M.; Boudreau, S.; Lajeunesse, P.; Stachnik, Ł.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 744,