Search Results - "Johnstone, Jill F."
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Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils
Published in Nature (London) (01-08-2019)“…Boreal forest fires emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere primarily through the combustion of soil organic matter 1 – 3 . During each fire, a…”
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Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-09-2016)“…Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained by two types of legacies -information and material. Species…”
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Stable carbon isotope analysis reveals widespread drought stress in boreal black spruce forests
Published in Global change biology (01-08-2015)“…Unprecedented rates of climate warming over the past century have resulted in increased forest stress and mortality worldwide. Decreased tree growth in…”
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Widespread negative correlations between black spruce growth and temperature across topographic moisture gradients in the boreal forest
Published in Environmental research letters (01-06-2014)“…The responses of tree growth to recent climate warming may signal changes in the susceptibility of forest communities to compositional change and consequently…”
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Examining forest resilience to changing fire frequency in a fire‐prone region of boreal forest
Published in Global change biology (01-03-2019)“…Future changes in climate are widely anticipated to increase fire frequency, particularly in boreal forests where extreme warming is expected to occur…”
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The Impacts of Changing Disturbance Regimes on Serotinous Plant Populations and Communities
Published in Bioscience (01-11-2013)“…Climatic change is anticipated to alter disturbance regimes for many ecosystems. Among the most important effects are changes in the frequency, size, and…”
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Fire Severity Filters Regeneration Traits to Shape Community Assembly in Alaska’s Boreal Forest
Published in PloS one (13-02-2013)“…Disturbance can both initiate and shape patterns of secondary succession by affecting processes of community assembly. Thus, understanding assembly rules is a…”
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Modeling impacts of fire severity on successional trajectories and future fire behavior in Alaskan boreal forests
Published in Landscape ecology (01-04-2011)“…Much of the boreal forest in western North America and Alaska experiences frequent, stand-replacing wildfires. Secondary succession after fire initiates most…”
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The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates
Published in Ecology letters (01-09-2024)“…ABSTRACT The fundamental trade‐off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to…”
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Impacts of pre-fire conifer density and wildfire severity on ecosystem structure and function at the forest-tundra ecotone
Published in PloS one (28-10-2021)“…Wildfire frequency and extent is increasing throughout the boreal forest-tundra ecotone as climate warms. Understanding the impacts of wildfire throughout this…”
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Drivers of legacy soil organic matter decomposition after fire in boreal forests
Published in Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) (01-11-2023)“…Boreal forests harbor as much carbon (C) as the atmosphere and significant amounts of organic nitrogen (N), the nutrient most likely to limit plant…”
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The influence of postfire recovery and environmental conditions on boreal vegetation
Published in Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) (01-07-2023)“…Climate change is increasing the frequency and extent of fires in the boreal biome of North America. These changes can alter the recovery of both canopy and…”
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Impacts of fire on non-native plant recruitment in black spruce forests of interior Alaska
Published in PloS one (03-02-2017)“…Climate change is expected to increase the extent and severity of wildfires throughout the boreal forest. Historically, black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.)…”
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Cascading effects: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
Published in Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) (01-05-2021)“…Ecosystems across the United States are changing in complex and unpredictable ways and analysis of these changes requires coordinated, long‐term research. This…”
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Predicting patterns of terrestrial lichen biomass recovery following boreal wildfires
Published in Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) (01-04-2021)“…Increased fire activity due to climate change may impact the successional dynamics of boreal forests, with important consequences for caribou habitat. Early…”
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Explaining spatial heterogeneity in population dynamics and genetics from spatial variation in resources for a large herbivore
Published in PloS one (31-10-2012)“…Fine-scale spatial variation in genetic relatedness and inbreeding occur across continuous distributions of several populations of vertebrates; however, the…”
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Carbon loss from boreal forest wildfires offset by increased dominance of deciduous trees
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-04-2021)“…In boreal forests, climate warming is shifting the wildfire disturbance regime to more frequent fires that burn more deeply into organic soils, releasing…”
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Assessing spatial and temporal variations in surface soil moisture in fire-disturbed black spruce forests in Interior Alaska using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery — Implications for post-fire tree recruitment
Published in Remote sensing of environment (15-05-2007)“…Recent studies [Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., Kasischke, E.S., Riordan, K., Brunzell, S.M., Nolan, M., Hyer, E.J., Slawski, J.J., Medvecz, M., Walters, T., and Ames,…”
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Controlled soil warming powered by alternative energy for remote field sites
Published in PloS one (26-12-2013)“…Experiments using controlled manipulation of climate variables in the field are critical for developing and testing mechanistic models of ecosystem responses…”
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Once burned, twice shy: Repeat fires reduce seed availability and alter substrate constraints on Picea mariana regeneration
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-02-2012)“…► Climate warming is expected to cause increases in fire frequency in the boreal forest. ► A change to the disturbance regime is an indirect effect of climate…”
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