Journal article
Boreal lichen woodlands: A possible negative feedback to climate change in eastern North America
Abstract
Because of successive forest fires, closed-canopy black spruce forests are susceptible to a shift towards open lichen–spruce woodlands in parts of the boreal forest of eastern North America. The shift from dark black spruce canopies to pale lichen ground cover offers a dramatic contrast in reflectance that may compensate for the CO2 emissions from forest fires in terms of radiative forcing. We have therefore looked at the climate change …
Authors
Bernier PY; Desjardins RL; Karimi-Zindashty Y; Worth D; Beaudoin A; Luo Y; Wang S
Journal
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol. 151, No. 4, pp. 521–528
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 2011
DOI
10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.12.013
ISSN
0168-1923