“…These disparate changes suggest that boreal forest responses to climate change may strongly depend on the current state of the system, including current ecosystem composition. For example, temperature sensitivity of spring tree growth, water use, and successional strategy vary dramatically between the dominant angiosperm and gymnosperm species (Drobyshev, Gewehr, Berninger, Bergeron, & Mcglone, ; Euskirchen, Carman, & Mcguire, ; Hollingsworth, Johnstone, Bernhardt, & Chapin, ; Johnstone & Chapin, ; Trugman et al., ; Young‐Robertson, Bolton, Bhatt, Cristobal, & Thoman, ). Site‐level studies have shown that angiosperm water use greatly exceeds that of gymnosperm species in the Alaskan boreal forest, such that angiosperm species consume >20% of total snowmelt water in comparison to the <1% associated with gymnosperm species (Young‐Robertson et al., ).…”