2020
DOI: 10.1002/fee.2188
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Abstract: The vast boreal biome plays an important role in the global carbon cycle but is experiencing particularly rapid climate warming, threatening the integrity of valued ecosystems and their component species. We developed a framework and taxonomy to identify climate‐change refugia potential in the North American boreal region, summarizing current knowledge regarding mechanisms, geographic distribution, and landscape indicators. While “terrain‐mediated” refugia will mostly be limited to coastal and mountain regions… Show more

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“…Our study provides a predictive framework to forecast which parts of the boreal forest landscape are more likely to support resilient plant communities in the face of a changing fire regime. We show that wetter parts of the landscape experience lower fire severity and less dramatic compositional shifts in plant communities than dry areas, supporting the idea that wetter parts of the landscape may act as future climate change refugia (Stralberg et al ). These landscape‐level evaluations are crucial for the development of spatially‐explicit ecological forecasting tools that can help inform management decisions regarding land‐use, wildlife range planning and protected areas planning.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 84%
“…Our study provides a predictive framework to forecast which parts of the boreal forest landscape are more likely to support resilient plant communities in the face of a changing fire regime. We show that wetter parts of the landscape experience lower fire severity and less dramatic compositional shifts in plant communities than dry areas, supporting the idea that wetter parts of the landscape may act as future climate change refugia (Stralberg et al ). These landscape‐level evaluations are crucial for the development of spatially‐explicit ecological forecasting tools that can help inform management decisions regarding land‐use, wildlife range planning and protected areas planning.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 84%
“…It is unlikely to think that differences in morphological, structural, or hydraulic traits drive differences in drought-induced mortality in the Montsec sites. Most likely, a feasible explanation for the decline of several holm oak and Scots pine trees can be on the influence of local site conditions in general (Kannenberg et al, 2019;Stralberg et al, 2020), and belowground conditions in particular. In these drought-prone and low productive sites, tree survival during drought may depend on the capacity to access to rock bedrock groundwater (McDowell et al, 2019;Mackay et al, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unique regional climatic characteristics, such as upwelling in large lakes or coastal air currents, may buffer the impacts of climate change, resulting in regions with relatively low climatic exposure (Stralberg et al . ). Landscape topography can also offset regional climatic exposure.…”
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confidence: 97%