Reconstruction of millennial forest dynamics from tree remains in a subarctic tree line peatland

• Published in: Ecology (Durham) Vol. 78; no. 6; pp. 1873 - 1883
• Main Authors: Arseneault, Dominique, Payette, Serge
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Ecological Society of America 01.09.1997
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; black spruce; BOSQUES; Climate change; Climate models; climatic change; deforestation; DENDROECOLOGY; ECOLOGIA; ECOLOGIE; ECOLOGY; ecosystem resistance; fire; Forest dynamics; Forest ecology; Forest regeneration; forest-tundra; FORESTS; FORET; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Growth rings; krummholz; Medieval Warm Period; northern Québec; PEATLAND; Peatlands; PICEA MARIANA; QUEBEC; Spruce; Stems; Synecology; Terrestrial ecosystems; Timberlines; TOURBIERE; Tree growth; tree line; TREELINES; Trees; TURBERA; Canada; North America; America; Quebec; Canada, Quebec; Quebec, Canada; Deforestation; Warming; Forests; Vegetation dynamics; Subpolar zone; Dendrochronology; Case history; Canopy fire; Peat bog; Ecotone; Ecosystem; Softwood forest tree; Gymnospermae; Coniferales; Spermatophyta; Climate modification; Picea mariana; Tundra

Tree ring and growth form sequences of 319 black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.] BSP.) stems buried in a treeless peatland at the arctic tree line of northern Quebec were used to reconstruct the development of a woodland in response to climate change and fires during the last 2500 years. A high freque...