Forest organic layers are important soil carbon pools that can, in the absence of disturbance, accumulate to great depths, especially in lowland areas. Across the Canadian boreal forest, fire is the primary disturbance agent, often limiting organic layer accumulation through the direct consumption of...
“We found that wildfire could initiate the conversion of approximately 50 per cent of the current boreal forest into grassland or deciduous open forest,” said Diana Stralberg, who did the research as part of her PhD in the biological sciences department at the University of Alberta. “If...
North America's boreal forests are warming and drying from climate change, but they still hold places that can offer refuge for plants and animals, according to University of Alberta scientists who have taken the lead in creating a guide to identify those areas. The information about these shel...
Here we present a localised case study of the impacts of seismic lines on proximal boreal forest and wetland ecosystem vegetation structural characteristics. The study concentrates on a relatively undisturbed area of the Oil Sands Region of the Boreal zone in north central Alberta using airborne ...
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Gut contents of 138 northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus) and 75 red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), which had been trapped from November to February in the boreal forest of northeastern Alberta, were examined to determine which fungi were consumed as food during the winter months...
forest ET with increasing VPD using observations from 95 eddy covariance tower sites. At high VPD of more than 2 kPa, peatland ET exceeds forest ET by up to 30%. Future (2091–2100) mid-growing season peatland ET is estimated to exceed forest ET by over 20% in about one-third of ...
Article: Impacts of mechanical site preparation on foliar nutrients of planted white spruce seedlings on mixed-wood boreal forest sites in Alberta
(2018) report broadly similar microbial communities in northern Alberta to those observed in this study (Supplemental Figs. 1–4). However, the novelty of this study lies not only in characterizing the soil microbial communities of - and the effects of fire in - the northern boreal forest in...
In this study, plant composition and community structure indicate the near-surface permafrost distribution at the southern edge of the boreal forest and permafrost in northeastern China. The plant species composition and structure of aboveground vegetation were linked to the belowground near-surface ...