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15387075

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-9-24
pubmed:abstractText
Changes in boreal climate of the magnitude projected for the 21st century have always caused vegetation changes large enough to be societally important. However, the rates and patterns of vegetation change are difficult to predict. We review evidence suggesting that these vegetation changes may be gradual at the northern forest limit or where seed dispersal limits species distribution. However, forest composition may be quite resilient to climate change in the central portions of a species range until some threshold is surpassed. At this point, changes can be rapid and unexpected, often causing a switch to very different ecosystem types. Many of these triggers for change are amenable to management, suggesting that our choice of policies in the coming decades will substantially influence the ecological and societal consequences of current climatic change.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0044-7447
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
33
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
361-5
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Global change and the boreal forest: thresholds, shifting states or gradual change?
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks 99775, USA. terry.chapin@uaf.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article