Taiga ecology, Birds, Ecology, Forest birdsReaching from interior Alaska across Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America's boreal forest is the largest wilderness area left on the planet. It is critical habitat for billions of birds; more than 300 species regularly breed there. After ...
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boreal forests in North America (Fig.2). Our analysis of ~13,000 sample plots along south-north transects across the North American boreal region (see Methods) showed that across the North American boreal biome tree cover increased, albeit with a high variation (mean change of 0.12% ±...
Disturbance dynamics differ in the three subregions of the North American boreal forest (taiga, western United States, and eastern United States) where lynx are found, resulting in a range of potential effects on lynx populations. Fire severity tends to be high in most of the forest types where...
Overnight fires are emerging in North America with previously unknown drivers and implications. This notable phenomenon challenges the traditional understanding of the ‘active day, quiet night’ model of the diurnal fire cycle1,2,3 and current fire management practices4,5. Here we demonstrate that...
Climates of North America. New York: Elsevier. Guttman, N.B., 1996, North America, in The Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (ed. S.H. Schneider). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hare, F.K., 1950. Climate and zonal divisions of the Boreal Forest in eastern Canada, Geog. Rev., 40...
Here, we applied charcoal analysis of forest soils to test from direct evidence the stability and resilience of the eastern North-American boreal forest at the Holocene timescale. Current knowledge indicates that the boreal forest is not so stable and resilient in several parts of its range, ...
boreal forestNorth AmericaAn algorithm based on a Bayesian network classifier was adapted to produce 10-day burned area (BA) maps from the Long Term Data Record Version 3 (LTDR) at a spatial resolution of 0.05掳 (~5 km) for the North American boreal region from 2001 to 2011. The ...
aThe great northern forest—the boreal forest—is home to a unique ecosystem of animals and plants. It covers one-third of the earth’s total forest area and is home to so many birds that it is known as “North America’s bird nursery.” The forest is a treasure trove of riches, but...
In Canada, where the majority of forested area is Boreal forest, 2.1 Mha burns annually on average; In the United States, the average area burned since 2000 has been 2.8 Mha, although this figure is increasing, predominantly driven by increased fire activity in the western US in recent years...