Rising vapor pressure deficit in northwestern boreal Canada is linked to increased burned area and reduced tree growth, with indirect effects on biomass ac

Understanding the influence of intraspecific genetic variation on the response of tree species to stress events—like heatwaves, droughts, and growing …

Severe drought increasingly threatens the resilience of forest biomes worldwide. Using a tree-ring database from Canadian forests, encompassing 40,147 trees across 4558 plots and 23 species, we analy...

Over the past 8000 years, spring climatic conditions, particularly drought, have been the primary driver of wildfire dynamics in eastern boreal North America. Increasing spring dryness over the last ....

The record-breaking 2023 wildfire season in Canada ( ~ 15 Mha burned) was enabled by early snowmelt, drought, and extreme weather. It had profound impacts that included evacuation of >200 communiti...

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Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal tackling issues such as sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.

The boreal forest transformed into a dry oak-pine ecosystem in the hemiboreal zone of North America 7000 years ago, probably as a result of rising temperatures and increased fire activity, according t...

<em>Journal of Ecology</em> publishes original research on all aspects of the plant ecology (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.