Selected references on climate change, treeline, and the boreal forest

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References for researchers:

Bonan, G.B.; D. Pollard, S.L. Thompson. 1992. Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate. Nature. 359: 716-718.

Chapin III, F.S. and A.M. Starfield. 1997. Time lags and novel ecosystems in reponse to transient climatic change in arctic Alaska. Climatic Change. 35: 449-462.

Chapin, F.S. III, J.P. McFadden, S.E. Hobbie. 1997a. The role of arctic vegetation in ecosystem and global processes. In S.J. Woodin and M. Marquiss, Eds. Ecology of Arctic Environments. Oxford, Blackwell Science. Pp. 97-112.

Chapin, F.S. J. McFadden, W. Eugster. 1997b. Effects of arctic vegetation on regional water and energy exchange in present and future climates. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. 10-14 August. Albuquerque, N.M.

Fastie, C.L. 1996. Causes and ecosystem consequences of multiple pathways of primary succession at Glacier Bay, Alaska. Ecology. 76:1899-1916.

Foley, J., J.E. Kutzbach, and I.C. Prentice, 1997. Climate and vegetation interactions during the Quaternary. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 10-14 August. Albuquerque, N.M.

Foley, J. , J.E. Kutzbach, M.T. Coe, and S. Levis. 1994. Feedbacks between climate and boreal forests during the Holocene epoch. Nature. 371:52-54.

Hammond, T. and J. Yarie. 1996. Spatial prediction of climatic state factor regions in Alaska. Écoscience. 3: 490-501.

Jacoby G C, R.D. D'Arrigo, T. Davaajamts. 1996. Mongolian tree rings and 20th-century warming. Science. 273:771-773.

Jacoby, G.C. D'Arrigo, R.D. 1995. Tree ring width and density evidence of climatic and potential forest change in Alaska. Global biogeochemical cycles. 9:227-234.

Kullman, L. 1987. Long-term dynamics of high-altitude populations of Pinus sylvestris in the Swedish Scandes. Journal of Biogeography. 14:1-8.

Lavoie, C. and S. Payette. 1994. Recent fluctuations of the lichen-spruce forest limit in subarctic Quebec. Journal of Ecology. 82:725-734.

Lloyd, A.H. and L.J. Graumlich. 1997. Holocene dynamics of treeline forests in the Sierra Nevada. Ecology. 78:1199-1210.

Lloyd, A.H. 1997. Response of treeline populations of foxtail pine to climate variation over the last 1000 years. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 27:936-942.

Mann, D.H., C.L. Fastie, E.L. Rowland, N.H. Bigelow. 1996. Spruce succession, disturbance, and geomorphology on the Tanana River floodplain, Alaska. Écoscience. 2:184-199.

Payette, S. and L. Filion. 1985. White spruce expansion at the tree line and recent climatic change. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 15:241-251.

Pielke, R.A. and P.L. Vidale. 1996. The boreal forest and the polar front. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. 100D: 25755-25758.

Starfield, A.M. 1991. Qualitative rule-based modeling. BioScience. 40: 601-604.

Starfield, A.M., D.H.M. Cummings, R.D. Taylor, and M.S. Quadling. 1993. A frame-based paradigm for dynamic ecosystem models. AI Applications. 7: 1-13.

Starfield, A.M. and F.S. Chapin III. 1996. Model of transient changes in arctic and boreal vegetation in response to climate and land use change. Ecological Applications. 6: 842-864.

Swetnam, T.S. 1993. Fire history and climate change in giant sequoia groves. Science. 262:885-889.

Swetnam, T.W. Betancourt, J.L. 1990. Fire - Southern Oscillation relations in the southwestern United States. Science. 249:1017-1020

Viereck, L. 1973. Wildfire in the taiga of Alaska. Quaternary Research. 3: 465-495.

Yarie, J. 1981. Forest fire cycles and life tables: a case study from interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 11:554-562.


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