How climate change might affect tree regeneration following fire at northern latitudes: a review

D Boucher, S Gauthier, N Thiffault, W Marchand… - New Forests, 2020 - Springer
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it
could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production …

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the managed Canadian boreal forest

S Gauthier, P Bernier, PJ Burton… - Environmental …, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Climate change is affecting Canada's boreal zone, which includes most of the country's
managed forests. The impacts of climate change in this zone are expected to be pervasive …

Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects

JS Clark, R Andrus, M Aubry-Kientz, Y Bergeron… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Indirect climate effects on tree fecundity that come through variation in size and growth
(climate-condition interactions) are not currently part of models used to predict future forests …

Geographic range predicts photosynthetic and growth response to warming in co-occurring tree species

PB Reich, KM Sendall, K Rice, RL Rich… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Populations near the warm edge of species ranges may be particularly sensitive to climate
change,,,, but lack of empirical data on responses to warming represents a key gap in …

Fire return intervals and tree species succession in the North Shore region of eastern Quebec

M Bouchard, D Pothier… - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2008 - cdnsciencepub.com
We evaluated geographic variations in mean fire return intervals and postfire forest
succession within a 66 497 km2 land area located in the eastern Quebec boreal forest. Fire …

Analyzing risk of regeneration failure in the managed boreal forest of northwestern Quebec

TB Splawinski, D Cyr, S Gauthier… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Changes in the fire regime can affect the postdisturbance regeneration potential of boreal
forest tree species, thereby modifying tree density and cover. This could adversely affect the …

The interacting effects of temperature, ground disturbance, and herbivory on seedling establishment: implications for treeline advance with climate warming

A Munier, L Hermanutz, JD Jacobs, K Lewis - Plant Ecology, 2010 - Springer
Thermal control of treeline position is mediated by local environmental and ecological
factors, making trends in treeline migration difficult to extrapolate geographically. We …

Impact of local forest composition on soil fungal communities in a mixed boreal forest

M Nagati, M Roy, S Manzi, F Richard, A Desrochers… - Plant and Soil, 2018 - Springer
Aims While fungi are key drivers of the carbon cycle and obligate symbionts of trees, the link
between plant-fungal interactions and landscape vegetation changes has been largely …

Climatic dipoles drive two principal modes of North American boreal bird irruption

C Strong, B Zuckerberg, JL Betancourt… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Pine Siskins exemplify normally boreal seed-eating birds that can be sparse or absent
across entire regions of North America in one year and then appear in large numbers the …

Projections of future forest age class structure under the influence of fire and harvesting: implications for forest management in the boreal forest of eastern Canada

Y Bergeron… - … Journal of Forest …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In northeastern Canadian boreal forests, a coarse-filter approach was adopted to provide
sustainable ecosystem services in order to maintain a balance between biodiversity …