Exploring the Alaskan black spruce ecosystem: variability in species composition, ecosystem function, and fire history

Teresa Hollingsworth

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Exploring the Alaskan black spruce ecosystem: variability in species composition, ecosystem function, and fire history

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Authors:

Teresa Hollingsworth

Year:

2008

Type:

Proceedings

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

Source:

In: Talbot, S.S., ed. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Flora Group.Torshavn, Faroe Island, CAFF Technical Report No. 15. Akureyri, Iceland: 13-15

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Abstract

In this overview, I present extensive studies looking at the structure and function of the black spruce (Picea mariana) ecosystem of the boreal region of interior Alaska. One of the studies provides a classification of black spruce communities, the most abundant forest type in the region. Other studies examine large-scale processes that drive this community classification. This work helps lay the foundation for an appropriate vegetation mapping project in boreal Alaska.

Keywords

Alaskan, black spruce, ecosystem, fire history

Citation

Hollingsworth, T.N. 2008. Exploring the Alaskan black spruce ecosystem: variability in species composition, ecosystem function, and fire history. In: Talbot, S.S., ed. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Flora Group.Torshavn, Faroe Island, CAFF Technical Report No. 15. Akureyri, Iceland: 13-15.