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Dr. Andrea Lloyd says:

I bet people are going to start getting really interested in is the question of what all this means for people. Um, clearly spruce forests have a different group of plants and animals associated with them than tundra does, and talking to people on the Seward peninsula, people seem pretty convinced that moose and beaver are expanding into the Seward peninsula and those are two species that we typically associate with boreal habitats, so it may be that the expansion of spruce is being associated with the expansion of these other animals. And clearly shifts in what animals are present are going to have a major impact on hunting, um. So there are a lot of questions we are not addressing in our study that are really important from the perspective of how humans can be affected by all of this.