“…The ACT11d site is highly sensitive during the pine flowering season to this area (values of 200–1,000 μg m −2 yr −1 /(kg s −1 )) based on FLEXPART simulations (Figure 1). There is no evidence that the northern tree line in eastern Canada, mainly composed of spruce, has shifted geographically over the past millennium, so compositional changes in boreal forests (i.e., density of pine trees and pine pollen productivity, Viau & Gajewski, 2009), as well as southwards expansion into temperate regions (Lafontaine‐Boyer & Gajewski, 2014; Sanger et al., 2021), may have driven the observed increases in pine pollen rather than northward expansion of boreal forests (Delwaide et al., 2021). In addition, the colder conditions at the beginning of the LIA (Carcaillet & Richard, 2000) may have favored pine expansions in drying wetland areas in eastern Canada that subsequently provided suitable growth conditions in formerly wet soils for the fast‐spreading pioneer species.…”