Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest |
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| Editor:
| Chapin, F. Stuart
Oswood, Mark W.
van Cleve, Keith
Viereck, Leslie A.
Verbyla, David L. |
| Series title: | The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-515431-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2006 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $193.64AUD $304.00 |
Book Description:
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The Boreal forest is the northern-most forest in the world, whose organisms and dynamics are shaped by low temperature and high latitude. The Alaskan Boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as any place on earth, providing an unprecedented opportunity to examine a biome as it adjusts to change.
The Boreal forest is the northern-most forest in the world, whose organisms and dynamics are shaped by low temperature and high latitude. The Alaskan Boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as any place on earth, providing an unprecedented opportunity to examine a biome as it adjusts to change.