• It contains 33 percent of the world's forests, which sequester 22 percent of the total carbon absorbed annually by forest ecosystems. (mongabay.com)
  • Stretching around the northern third of the planet from Siberia to the Yukon, Finland to Alaska, global boreal ecosystems - also referred to as "taiga" - comprise 1.9 billion hectares - 14 percent of the world's land and 33 percent of its remaining forests. (mongabay.com)
  • These hardy evergreen forests still contain "a large fraction of the planet's remaining unmanaged forests," according the Science study, "responsible for ~20% of the total carbon sequestrated annually by forest ecosystems. (mongabay.com)
  • The circumpolar boreal forest, one of Earth's largest and arguably least known ecosystems, plays a crucial role in the health of the planet. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Therefore, the vital role of warming-induced changes in carbon assimilation should be considered to accurately project spring phenology and carbon cycling in forest ecosystems under future climate warming. (nature.com)
  • This advancement in SOS have been shown to extend the duration of the growing season and increase carbon uptake in forest ecosystems. (nature.com)
  • Understory vegetation accounts for the majority of plant species diversity and serves as a driver of overstory succession and nutrient cycling in boreal forest ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • Its report said the forests impacted are key to the country's ecosystems, as they promote biodiversity, absorb, capture and store carbon, and help mitigate the impacts of climate change. (thebowenherald.com)
  • Forest Ecosystems , 5 (1) . (uqat.ca)
  • As an umbrella species, caribou are also essential to the vast ecosystems they support in the boreal forest, which makes up 55 per cent of Canada's land mass. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • Assessing the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio's ability to map burn severity in the boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of Alaska's national parks. (nps.gov)
  • According to Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), harvesting in Canada's boreal forests is done "sustainably. (thebowenherald.com)
  • Its soils, trees , and peatlands are one of the largest storehouses of carbon on our planet, holding an estimated 208 billion tonnes of carbon in Canada's boreal forests alone [1]. (canopyplanet.org)
  • In this undated photo provided by the International Boreal Conservation Campaign, the forest is seen after being clear-cut in the southern regions of Quebec's boreal Forest. (cbc.ca)
  • Only the boreal forest of northeastern North America is home to the black spruce and its attendant ecosystem. (mongabay.com)
  • Spanning 1.2 billion acres, Canada's boreal forest is the largest intact forest ecosystem on the planet. (cpawsmb.org)
  • Northern species like the arctic grayling, river otter and black-throated green warbler rely on the boreal ecosystem and remain elsewhere in the province. (raysweb.net)
  • Yukon government senior biologist Tom Jung has found that the difference of a few centimetres or grams can have an outsize impact on an ecosystem like the northern boreal forest. (theweathernetwork.com)
  • Background: In the context of ecosystem management, the present study aims to compare the natural and the present-day forested landscapes of a large territory in Quebec (Canada). (uqat.ca)
  • Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel. (wikipedia.org)
  • How Do Wildfires in Canada's Boreal Forest Affect Birds Across the Continent? (audubon.org)
  • About 5,000 years ago, the Canadian boreal began to resemble what it is today in terms of species composition and biodiversity. (wikipedia.org)
  • With climate change driving species in the Northern Hemisphere ever further up the latitudinal ladder, a recent study released in the journal Science finds that Canada's eastern boreal forests may act as crucial ecological reservoirs, islands of cooler habitat for the dominant tree species, black spruce ( Picea mariana ), and the panoply of plant and animal life that depend on it. (mongabay.com)
  • They also have their fair share of endangered species such as woodland caribou and whooping cranes, found in the boreal regions of North America, and Siberian tigers and Blakiston's fish owl in Russia. (mongabay.com)
  • An estimated 7% of the species' North American breeding range lies within the Boreal Forest. (borealbirds.org)
  • An estimated 16% of the species' North American population breeds within the Boreal Forest. (borealbirds.org)
  • An estimated 17% of the species' North American population breeds within the Boreal Forest. (borealbirds.org)
  • This species regularly occurs in North America's boreal forest during breeding, migration, or wintering. (borealbirds.org)
  • Retention of CWD in advanced decay stages, which contains species not found in earlier decay classes, presents a particular challenge in forest management because of the long times required to develop CWD in the later stages of decomposition. (gc.ca)
  • Results Climate-induced changes in the competitiveness of dominant tree species due to changes in potential growth, and substantial intensification of the fire regime, appear likely to combine in driving major changes in boreal forest landscapes. (gc.ca)
  • Conclusions Western boreal forests, i.e., those bordering the prairies, are the most vulnerable because of a lack of species adapted to warmer climates and major increases in areas burned. (gc.ca)
  • These changes would lead to reduced volumes, perhaps even the disappearance, of species that currently dominate the forest (spruce and fir). (gc.ca)
  • Nearly half of all North American birds (325 species) rely on the Boreal, and over 300 of those species regularly breed there. (wildbirdhabitatstore.com)
  • 80% of the waterfowl species of North America, 63% of the finch species, and 53% of warbler species breed in the Boreal. (wildbirdhabitatstore.com)
  • For nearly 100 species, 50% or more of their entire breeding populations occur in the Boreal. (wildbirdhabitatstore.com)
  • Over 80% of the North American populations of 35 species occur in the Boreal. (wildbirdhabitatstore.com)
  • Endangered species such as the well-known whooping crane and the woodland caribou also depend on the boreal forests for their well-being. (raysweb.net)
  • Black and white spruce are typical species of this region, along with tamarack, Jack pine, and balsam fir in these forest types. (nps.gov)
  • These mature forests are important for caribou and many species of birds. (nps.gov)
  • Succession is generally well described above-ground in the boreal forest, and several studies have demonstrated the role of interspecific facilitation in tree species establishment. (frontiersin.org)
  • At the ecotone between the mixed boreal forest, dominated by balsam fir and hardwood species, and the boreal forest, dominated by black spruce, several stands of trembling aspen can be found, surrounded by black spruce forest. (frontiersin.org)
  • It stores 300 billion tons of carbon, provides habitat for threatened boreal caribou, billions of birds and a multitude of other species. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Canada's Boreal forest supports 85 mammal species, 130 species of fish, around 32,000 species of insects , and over 300 bird species. (canopyplanet.org)
  • As part of the Species Habitat Assessments and Ranching Partnerships (SHARP) project, the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA) sampled native bees in the Central Mixedwood Boreal, Dry Mixedwood Boreal, and Central Parkland natural subregions of Alberta, Canada. (gbif.org)
  • White spruce, black spruce and tamarack are most prevalent in the four northern eco-zones of the Taiga and Hudson Plains, while spruce, balsam fir, jack pine, white birch and trembling aspen are most common in the lower boreal regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • global warming might bring about earlier and longer growing seasons, allowing for denser growth and the expansion northward of black spruce forests in the study area. (mongabay.com)
  • The typical black spruce boreal forest, studied here, reaches out to the 52nd parallel," D'Orangeville told Mongabay. (mongabay.com)
  • One year after a fire in a black spruce forest in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. (nps.gov)
  • Black spruce forests, a type of boreal forest, are highly flammable and almost designed to burn. (nps.gov)
  • Fire carries well in the understory of black spruce forest. (nps.gov)
  • Regeneration of balsam fir seems to have increased in the recent decades within the boreal forest, and it seems better adapted to grow in trembling aspen stands than in black spruce stands, even when located in similar abiotic conditions. (frontiersin.org)
  • In Québec (Canada), the 49th parallel represents the ecotone between the southern balsam fir-paper birch (mixedwood boreal forest) and the northern black spruce-feather moss (boreal forest) bioclimatic domains. (frontiersin.org)
  • 2021. Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest . (nps.gov)
  • Another recent scientific report from Cornell spells out the hazards of industrialization in grim detail, with three billion birds - Canada warblers and evening grosbeaks particularly - at risk of population collapse across North America's 1.5 billion acres of boreal forest. (mongabay.com)
  • February 13, 2020 The vast Canadian boreal forest provides breeding habitat for almost half of North America's migratory ducks, geese, and songbirds - including this Olive-sided Flycatcher. (birdnote.org)
  • North America's Boreal forest provides the largest supply of surface freshwater on earth. (canopyplanet.org)
  • The area is dominated by coniferous forests, particularly spruce, interspersed with vast wetlands, mostly bogs and fens. (wikipedia.org)
  • One dominant characteristic of the boreal is that much of it consists of large, even-aged stands, a uniformity that owes to a cycle of natural disturbances like forest fires, or outbreaks of pine beetle or spruce budworm that kill large tracts of forest with cyclical regularity. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study looked at spruce forests in Quebec, finding that they may actually respond well to rising temperatures. (mongabay.com)
  • But other factors such as insect infestations and changing fire regimes may affect the ability of eastern spruce forests to acclimate. (mongabay.com)
  • In other words, northern spruce forests will actually benefit from a warming world. (mongabay.com)
  • Succession of saproxylic beetles associated with decomposition of boreal white spruce logs. (gc.ca)
  • We reared saproxylic beetles from 54 white spruce [ Picea glauca (Moench) Voss] logs collected in northwestern Alberta, Canada. (gc.ca)
  • In reality, there is a great diversity of vegetation and wildlife in the boreal forests, from the complex wetland meanders of the Hay River to the lush mixed forests of aspen, pine and spruce in the Lakeland area, to the complex vegetation mosaics of the Clearwater, Peace and Athabasca river valleys. (raysweb.net)
  • In central Alaska, the spruce forest usually burns every 60 years to 150 years. (nps.gov)
  • The Canadian boreal forest covers 270 million hectares, in which spruce, fir, pine and tamarack trees are most common. (thebowenherald.com)
  • Stretching from Newfoundland to Alaska, the North American Boreal is an incredible landscape of lakes, rivers, and coniferous forests of spruce, fir, and pine interspersed with stands of poplar and birch. (canopyplanet.org)
  • Stand and landscape level effects of a major outbreak of spruce beetles on forest vegetation in the Copper River Basin, Alaska. (nps.gov)
  • Eight sites were located in the Central Parkland Natural Subregion and eight in the Dry/Central Mixedwood Boreal Forest Natural Subregions. (gbif.org)
  • The mean number of native bees collected at each Parkland site was 101.6 (range: 34-213) individuals, and 45.5 (range: 12-85) at each Mixedwood Boreal site. (gbif.org)
  • The boreal region in Canada covers almost 60% of the country's land area. (wikipedia.org)
  • A U.S. environmental group says that country's toilet paper industry is driving boreal deforestation in Canada and fuelling the climate crisis. (cbc.ca)
  • At Fort McKay near Fort McMurray in western Canada, in the heart of the country's boreal forest, the pines and the people were long ago cleared out to make way for huge open-pit mines dedicated to excavation of oil sands. (globaltimes.cn)
  • But as promising as reduced or confined logging might be to the long-term health of Canada's boreal refuge, the real threat, as is increasingly the case globally, is climate change. (mongabay.com)
  • But a new report from the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council says there's a different but more worrisome toilet paper crisis now looming in Canada, and it's driving global climate change. (cbc.ca)
  • The Issue with Tissue 2.0: How the tree-to-toilet pipeline fuels our climate crisis , claims a significant portion of virgin wood fibre from the one million acres of Canadian boreal forest clear-cut every year goes to large American toilet paper producers. (cbc.ca)
  • A new, contested report from the Natural Resources Defence Council in the U.S. says Canadian toilet paper production is devastating Canadian boreal forests and fuelling climate change. (cbc.ca)
  • Climate change impacts on forest landscapes along the Canadian southern boreal forest transition zone. (gc.ca)
  • Context Forest landscapes at the southern boreal forest transition zone are likely to undergo great alterations due to projected changes in regional climate. (gc.ca)
  • Objectives We projected changes in forest landscapes resulting from four climate scenarios (baseline, RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5), by simulating changes in tree growth and disturbances at the southern edge of Canada's boreal zone. (gc.ca)
  • Conservation and forest management planning within the southern boreal transition zone should consider both disturbance- and climate-induced changes in forest communities. (gc.ca)
  • In this study, the researchers used four climate change scenarios to show that over a 300-year span, western Canada's boreal forest would be more vulnerable to climate warming than its eastern counterpart. (gc.ca)
  • Combined with peat bogs, and the 3-million-square kilometres of boreal forest in Canada represent a major piece of nature's effort to combat climate change. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • Unfortunately, the boreal forest may be fighting a losing battle against climate change. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • Our results reveal that fungal communities observed under aspen are drivers of balsam fir early growth and nutrition in boreal forest stands and may facilitate ecotone migration in a context of climate change. (frontiersin.org)
  • Learn about how we conserve the world's forests and stabilize our climate. (canopyplanet.org)
  • A recent Environment and Climate Change Canada report confirms that the catastrophic decline in boreal caribou numbers will require significant and immediate government actions to reverse. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • The boreal forest also provides invaluable ecological services such as mitigating climate change and purifying air and water. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • CanESM2 model output can be downloaded through the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis ( http://climate-modelling.canada.ca/data/cgcm4/CanESM2/index.shtml ) and CESM1-CAM5 model output is available through the Climate Data Gateway at the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/ ). (nature.com)
  • That is the pledge Canada and dozens of other nations have made to set aside thirty percent of our lands and waters as protected spaces in an effort to halt the dramatic decline of the planet's biodiversity, a decline that is directly linked to the climate crisis. (canadiangeographic.ca)
  • Boreal forests store twice as much carbon per acre as tropical forests, and provide a critical cooling function for the planet. (pewtrusts.org)
  • If the carbon locked in their deep soils, wetlands, peat and permafrost were released-by logging the forests or digging under them for minerals-scientists predict that global warming would further accelerate. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The Canadian boreal landscape, stretching from Newfoundland and Labrador all the way to Alaska, is the world's largest intact forest, and our biggest terrestrial carbon vault. (pewtrusts.org)
  • But this hoarded carbon is only one of the many globally-significant values of Canada's boreal. (pewtrusts.org)
  • This is releasing an enormous Pandora's box of previously locked up carbon from the forest vegetation and soils, reducing the forest's capacity to absorb more carbon and creating an insurmountable carbon deficit at current rates of logging,' said Skene. (cbc.ca)
  • Whilst seemingly less glamoruous compared to its more tropical cousins, the boreal forest is a key component of controlling the spread of carbon into our atmosphere. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • The larger point is that the boreal forest traditionally soaks up more carbon than it emits. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • Whilst warmer weather does help inspire more growth of the boreal forest, it also releases carbon that is trapped due to the colder weather as mentioned above. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • That's why we support common-sense solutions to reducing carbon emissions, including conserving and restoring forests, wetlands, and grasslands that provide important habitat for birds and serve as natural solutions for storing carbon, and investing in responsibly sited clean energy. (audubon.org)
  • Recent shifts in wildfire activity in regions of boreal North America indicate decreased resiliency of carbon pools and forest state. (athena-innovation.gr)
  • Here, I quantify the initial response and long-term recovery of belowground carbon pools to wildfire across various vegetation trajectories in ~140,000km2 area of the Northwest Territories, Canada, across 502 stands ranging from 1-100 years post-fire. (athena-innovation.gr)
  • The response of evapotranspiration (ET) to warming is of critical importance to the water and carbon cycle of the boreal biome, a mosaic of land cover types dominated by forests and peatlands. (nature.com)
  • In Europe, the entire boreal forest is referred to as taiga, not just the northern fringe where it thins out near the tree line. (wikipedia.org)
  • The taiga growth (as defined in North America) along the northern flank of the boreal forest creates a transition to the tundra region at the northern tree line. (wikipedia.org)
  • The boreal forest, also called taiga, is the largest forested habitat in the world, making up one third of the earth's total forested area. (nps.gov)
  • But while the boreal is vast, human activities are putting parts of it at risk. (mongabay.com)
  • Canada's vast boreal forests are under attack. (rcinet.ca)
  • Look at any map of Alberta and you will see them: The Athabasca, Smoky, Peace, Chinchaga and Hay, tracing sinuous patterns across the vast northern half of the province, a lightly populated and little-known region of dark forests and muskegs. (raysweb.net)
  • Named after Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind, the vast sweep of Boreal forests that crown the Earth's northern hemisphere are among the largest tracts of intact forest left on our planet. (canopyplanet.org)
  • These young forests are important for wildlife. (nps.gov)
  • Protecting the boreal is not only about saving trees and wildlife, says NRDC's Jennifer Skene. (nrdc.org)
  • Not Quite », Canadian Wildlife magazine, Nov + Dec 2016 edition. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • The Canadian Wildlife Federation 's mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of Canada's wildlife and habitats for the use and enjoyment of all. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • Canadian Wildlife magazine showcases the stories of wildlife across Canada, and the people working to save it. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • demanding that Charmin manufacturer Procter and Gamble and other tissue manufacturers change their recipe to reduce pressures on our boreal forests and push the Canadian government to protect the forest before it's too late,' said Stand.earth's Tzeporah Berman. (cbc.ca)
  • Worldwide, the Boreal zone covers 1.9 billion hectares or 33 percent of the Earth's forested area, creating a green halo across the world [1]. (canopyplanet.org)
  • Canada is home to 10 percent of the world's known crude oil reserves - much of that is found in the oil sands of Alberta. (globaltimes.cn)
  • Its high level of intactness has made the forest a particular focus of environmentalists and conservation scientists who view the untouched regions of the forest as an opportunity for large-scale conservation that would otherwise be impractical in other parts of the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement we helped broker this year is a classic example of how the Boreal Framework and our approach can guide conservation policy in practical ways. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Be the first to receive news & important conservation alerts about the boreal forest. (borealbirds.org)
  • Valérie Courtois is guiding an indigenous-led conservation strategy for one of the world's last great forests. (nrdc.org)
  • Funding was provided by the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership and the Alberta Conservation Association. (gbif.org)
  • A late December progress report on steps taken to protect the critical habitat for the woodland caribou in Canada reveals that, despite much talk, little progress toward conservation is occurring and caribou are paying the price. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • How our work impacts conservation across Canada. (ducks.ca)
  • During spring migration up to 3 billion birds fly through the U.S. to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Boreal Forest. (wildbirdhabitatstore.com)
  • Up to 5 billion birds (adults and offspring) fly south from the Boreal each fall. (wildbirdhabitatstore.com)
  • 60% of these migrants spend the winter in the U.S. - making it the largest wintering grounds for boreal birds such as Yellow-rumped Warblers, White-crowned Sparrows, Rusty Blackbirds and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. (wildbirdhabitatstore.com)
  • The boreal forest also plays an iconic role in Canada's history, economic and social development and the arts. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is the iconic northern Canadian forest, celebrated by artists in the Group of Seven, musicians like Neil Young, and in popular culture across Canada. (canopyplanet.org)
  • This type of coniferous forest vegetation is spread across the Northern Hemisphere. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, investigations of the underlying assembly processes of understory vegetation associated with stand development following a wildfire disturbance are rare, particularly in Eurasian boreal forests. (frontiersin.org)
  • Thus, an understanding of how forest communities are assembled following wildfire, is useful to land managers in the preparation of post-fire strategies for vegetation regeneration and future fuel management. (frontiersin.org)
  • The modeled natural landscapes were compared with present-day landscapes in regard to the proportion of old-growth forests (landscape level) and the proportion of late-successional forest stands (landscape level and potential vegetation type). (uqat.ca)
  • These nine are located in the southern portion of the study area, and are mainly associated with Abies-Betula vegetation where human activities have contributed to a strong increase in the proportion of Populus tremuloides stands (early-successional stages) and a decrease of old-growth forest stands (more than 100 years old). (uqat.ca)
  • Focusing on regional landscape characteristics and long-term natural variability of vegetation and forest age structure represents a step forward in methodology for defining reference conditions and following shifts in landscape over time. (uqat.ca)
  • The boreal biome is circumglobal, ringing the planet's northern regioms. (mongabay.com)
  • Future (2091-2100) mid-growing season peatland ET is estimated to exceed forest ET by over 20% in about one-third of the boreal biome for RCP4.5 and about two-thirds for RCP8.5. (nature.com)
  • Fig. 2: Eddy covariance flux tower locations and spatial pattern of dryness index in the boreal biome. (nature.com)
  • The Fish Sustainability Index (FSI) uses scientific and local knowledge to assess the health of lake trout in Alberta's boreal forest. (alberta.ca)
  • These forests contain three structural types: forest tundra in the north, open lichen woodland further south, and closed forest in more southern areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Canada's boreal also contains the world's largest complex of rivers, lakes and wetlands. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The long, pristine, undammed rivers of the boreal are the last refuges for many of the world's sea-run migratory fish, including half of the remaining populations of North American Atlantic salmon, and some of the largest brook and lake trout on record. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The talkative Lacorde, who belongs to the Metis people, is sad to see the parched, yellowing leaves due to drought, and wishes she could still swim in the rivers and gather berries in the forest like she did in her youth. (globaltimes.cn)
  • Recent forest management agreements have set the stage for roads and clearcuts over the entire area, feeding new pulp mills on the north's major rivers. (raysweb.net)
  • Across the board with chinook [salmon], we're seeing them coming in smaller,' said Tom Buzzell, manager of transboundary rivers operations with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Whitehorse. (theweathernetwork.com)
  • Clear-cutting and fire suppression in forests, along with acid rain, has reduced its available habitat. (birdnote.org)
  • Traps were situated in a variety of habitat types (deciduous forest, coniferous forest, shrubland, native grassland, and tame pasture) within grazed and ungrazed rangeland. (gbif.org)
  • From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science. (frames.gov)
  • Globally, boreal forests are tough customers, distinguished by an ability to thrive in freezing temperatures six to eight months annually, with about a third of their coverage area underlain by permafrost. (mongabay.com)
  • We're wiping our counters, we're cleaning our houses and blowing our noses with one of the most globally important forests in the world, the Canadian boreal. (thebowenherald.com)
  • With 1.2 billion acres of Canada's boreal intact, this last great forest can still be protected. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Timber companies were awarded "tenures," giving them logging rights covering nearly one-fifth of the boreal-more than 250 million acres. (pewtrusts.org)
  • By the 1990s, the industry felled 2 million acres of trees a year in the boreal, feeding huge housing booms in North America, the newsprint for America's papers and cardboard for its industries. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Large populations of trembling aspen and willow are found in the southernmost parts of the Boreal Plains. (wikipedia.org)
  • In summary, lake trout in the boreal forest lakes of Alberta were found to have declined, but recent monitoring and improved regulations appear to be restoring degraded populations. (alberta.ca)
  • Populations in the remote northeastern Canadian Shield area generally remain healthy. (alberta.ca)
  • None of the boreal forest populations remain at more than moderate abundance. (alberta.ca)
  • The Canadian government is recognizing the economic and ecological cruciality of its boreal habitats by entering into the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement . (mongabay.com)
  • We examined elk Cervus canadensis pellet decay and disappearance of individual pellets and pellet groups in six habitats in the boreal forest of northwestern Canada. (bioone.org)
  • Pellets in moist forest habitats had the lowest decay rates but the highest disappearance rates, whereas those in dry, grassland sites had the highest decay, but the lowest disappearance rates. (bioone.org)
  • Our findings indicate that warmer temperatures during previous growing season are linked to earlier spring phenology of current year in temperate and boreal forests. (nature.com)
  • Today, boreal forests are experiencing warmer temperatures and longer summers. (nps.gov)
  • In the Canadian province of Alberta, the thirst for oil has led to the razing of more than a quarter-million hectares of forest as companies seek to exploit the tar sands that lie beneath. (mongabay.com)
  • Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) are areas of primary forest large and undisturbed enough to retain their original levels of biodiversity. (mongabay.com)
  • Our guest Valérie Courtois is currently at the UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, in Montreal, making the case for preserving the boreal as part of the 30 by 30 goal. (canadiangeographic.ca)
  • It is over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in width (north to south) separating the arctic tundra region from the various landscapes of southern Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore, it is important that the forest industry leave dead wood of a variety of decay classes on landscapes where wood harvesting has been carried out. (gc.ca)
  • Have some landscapes in the eastern Canadian boreal forest moved beyond their natural range of variability? (uqat.ca)
  • Conclusion: Comparison of corresponding natural (reference conditions) and present-day landscapes showed that ten landscapes reflecting an important shift in forest composition and age structure could be considered beyond the range of their natural variability. (uqat.ca)
  • A general view shows a Syncrude oil sands mining facility near Fort McKay, Alberta, Canada. (globaltimes.cn)
  • This is the Boreal Forest Region which comprises 48 percent of Alberta. (raysweb.net)
  • However, the Alberta Government is lagging in protecting portions of the boreal landscape. (raysweb.net)
  • The People of the Boreal Forest Edukit Website is the final project of a series of Alberta Aboriginal Centennial initiative begun in 2005. (archive-it.org)
  • The Aseniwuche Winewak Nation of Canada (Cree for Rocky Mountain People) was formalized in September, 1994 when the six Aboriginal settlements that surrounded the town of Grande Cache, Alberta, joined together to have a collective presence and voice. (archive-it.org)
  • Blue vane traps were installed at 16 sites in northcentral Alberta, Canada. (gbif.org)
  • Historically, lake trout were found in 17 lakes in the boreal forest zone of Alberta, outside of another 25 lakes in the Canadian Shield north of Lake Athabasca. (alberta.ca)
  • These findings indicated that Eurasian boreal understory communities may be primarily regulated by stochastic processes, providing complementary evidence that stochastic processes are crucial in the determination of community assembly both in tropical and boreal forests. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, across the Prairie Provinces, a band of aspen parkland marks a different kind of transition along the south-central flank from boreal forest to grassland. (wikipedia.org)
  • Read more about the boreal forest's struggle to stay cool and keep the planet cool at the same time in « Eye of the Beholder? (cwf-fcf.org)
  • The central interior of the province is occupied by a sub-boreal transition zone between the main boreal forest and the dry forests of the southern interior. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the federal government's own accounts, Canada is not doing enough to protect dwindling caribou herds across the country. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • Eighty-one per cent of boreal caribou herds are declining. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • Human activities like timber harvesting have led to fragmentation of boreal IFLs in some regions. (mongabay.com)
  • Methods Projections were performed for four regions located on an east-west gradient using a forest landscape model (LANDIS-II) parameterized using a forest patch model (PICUS). (gc.ca)
  • RESEARCH ferryboats in Italy ( 9 ), boreal forests in Canada ( 10 ), and environmental samples from Arctic regions ( 11,12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • With every roll of their unsustainable toilet paper, companies are pushing the world toward an unthinkable future, destroying ancient and irreplaceable Canadian boreal forest for something as short lived as a flush,' said co-author Jennifer Skene. (cbc.ca)
  • What is especially egregious is that these products are the epitome of waste products, like paper towels, which most people will use once and throw away," Jennifer Skene, NRDC solutions policy manager for the Canada program, told CTVNews.ca in an interview. (thebowenherald.com)
  • Boreal forest extent based on data from The Nature Conservancy. (nps.gov)
  • In temperate and boreal forests, winter and spring temperatures are traditionally considered as the primarily driver of SOS because trees need to accumulate sufficient winter chilling units to end endodormancy and spring forcing units to break ecodormancy for reactivate growth 10 , 11 , 12 . (nature.com)
  • By 2100, annual average temperatures across the whole boreal forest region will have increased by four to 11 degrees Celsius, transforming some of the area into savannah. (cwf-fcf.org)
  • The effect of warming-induced vapour pressure deficit (VPD) increases on boreal ET remains poorly understood because peatlands are not specifically represented as plant functional types in Earth system models. (nature.com)
  • These water resources have led some scientists to call the boreal the "blue forest. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Scientists continue to study changes due to more fire in the boreal forest. (nps.gov)
  • NRDC alleges "hundreds of thousands of tonnes" of the wood pulp used in paper towel come from Canada's boreal forest, which makes up 28 per cent of the world's boreal zone, according to NRCan. (thebowenherald.com)
  • Canadians used about 746,305 tonnes of household and sanitary paper in 2021, according to calculations by Peri Dworatzek, senior data analyst at the Ecological Footprint Initiative at York University. (thebowenherald.com)
  • Facilitation of Balsam Fir by Trembling Aspen in the Boreal Forest: Do Ectomycorrhizal Communities Matter? (frontiersin.org)
  • With its sheer vastness and forest cover, the boreal makes an important contribution to the rural and aboriginal economies of Canada, primarily through resource industries, recreation, hunting, fishing and eco-tourism. (wikipedia.org)
  • However she says, given the massive destruction caused by the pine beetle, the make-up of the boreal forest is almost certain to change in the near future. (rcinet.ca)
  • The boreal forest zone consists of closed-crown conifer forests with a conspicuous deciduous element (Ritchie 1987). (wikipedia.org)
  • The mines have made the people left in Fort McKay - many of them Indigenous Canadians - very rich. (globaltimes.cn)
  • In the absence of government action, many Indigenous communities in Canada have been stepping forward to lead the charge for caribou protection. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • The David Suzuki Foundation acknowledges Indigenous Peoples throughout Canada. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • In our conversation, Courtois talks about the importance of the boreal, why Indigenous people are and always have been the best protectors of our wild places, and the growing role of the Indigenous Guardians program in preserving the boreal and our wilderness. (canadiangeographic.ca)
  • In Scandinavia only about 5 percent of the original forest remains. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a U.S. environmental non-profit organization, shows several big-name paper towel, toilet paper and facial tissue manufacturers are using trees from the boreal forest. (thebowenherald.com)