%0 Journal Article
%T Regional Variation in Interior Alaskan Boreal Forests is Driven by Fire Disturbance, Topography, and Climate
%J The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - Wiley Online Library
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1566
%X We developed landscape©\scale spatial models of tree species occupancy and abundance in Yukon¨CCharley Rivers National Preserve (YCNP), a remote and little©\studied region in east©\central Alaska. We compared these results with similar work completed in Denali National Park (see Roland et al. 2013). These two areas are a study in contrasts. Specifically, YCNP is a highly continental region with warmer growing seasons, a topographically diverse lowland landscape, and a considerably greater footprint of recent fire disturbance. Our two study areas thus effectively frame a ¡°natural experiment¡± that allowed us to examine various hypotheses regarding expected changes in the Alaskan boreal forest due to a rapidly warming climate in Alaska. These photographs illustrate the article ¡°Regional variation in interior Alaskan boreal forests is driven by fire disturbance, topography, and climate¡± by Carl A. Roland, Joshua H. Schmidt, Samantha G. Winder, Sarah. E. Stehn, and E. Fleur Nicklen published in Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.136
%U https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bes2.1566