A sensitive slope: Estimating landscape patterns of forest resilience in a changing climate

Ecosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Johnstone, Jill F ^a   McIntire, Eliot J B ^b   Pedersen, Eric J ^a,d   King, Gregory ^c,e   Pisaric, Michael J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age structure; Dendrochronology; Equivalent latitude; Fire; Forest regeneration; Landscape ecology; Seed dispersal; Slope aspect; Topography; Yukon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856564534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00102.1     Document Type: Article

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