Proposed Papers for Synthesis Issue
of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research on
The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming

(30 January 2009)

Foreword to the Special Issue (A.D. McGuire, F.S. Chapin III, and R. Ruess)

Climate Sensitivity and Resilience/Vulnerability

The response of productivity of interior Alaska trees to modes of variability in climate (A.D. McGuire, R. Ruess, J. Clein, J. Yarie, G. Juday, A. Lloyd, J. Johnstone).  

The long term response of stream flow to climatic warming in headwater streams of interior Alaska (J. Jones and A. Rinehart).

Climate sensitivity of permafrost in interior Alaska and its effects on ecosystems (T. Jorgenson, J. Harden, and others).

Changing moss communities and the potential for ecosystem thresholds in the Alaskan boreal forest (M. Turetsky, T. Hollingsworth, and M. Mack).

Effects of regional climate variability on weight dynamics, survival, and reproduction of snowshoe hares during a 10-year population cycle (K. Kielland, R. Ruess, E. Euskirchen, J. Clein, and A.D. McGuire).

Disturbance, Successional Dynamics and Resilience/Vulnerability

Twenty years of change in plant communities along the Tanana River, Alaska: Revisiting the concept of turning points (T. Hollingsworth, A. Lloyd, K. Kielland, J. Yarie, R. Ruess, and others).

Growth dynamics of interior Alaska forest types during transitional periods in the upland and floodplain successional sequence (J. Yarie, K. Van Cleve, J. Downing, R. Erickson, and B. Schlentner).

Spatial and temporal structure of soil fungal communities in Alaska’s boreal forest (L. Taylor, G. Laursen, R. Ruess, and others).

Alaska’s changing fire regime (E. Kasischke, S. Rupp, P. Duffy, D. Verbyla, A.D. McGuire, F.S. Chapin III, J. Harden, M. Turetsky, and others).

Fire as a critical factor shaping the resilience of the Alaskan boreal forest (J. Johnstone, T. Hollingsworth, E. Kasischke, T.S. Rupp, K. Kielland, M. Mack, F.S. Chapin III, E. Euskirchen, A.D. McGuire, G. Kofinas).

Fire, trees, and nitrogen: Understanding plant-soil feedbacks over secondary succession in the boreal forests of Alaska (M. Mack, J. Johnstone, J. Harden, and H. Alexander).

Climate warming and changes in insect and pathogen disturbance regimes in interior Alaska (G. Juday, S. Werner, C. Mulder, D. Wagner, P. Doak, and R. Ruess).

Regional Syntheses of Resilience/Vulnerability

The changing effects of Alaska boreal forests on the climate system (E. Euskirchen, A.D. McGuire, F.S. Chapin III, T.S. Rupp and others).

The resilience of human communities to climate change in interior Alaska: Forests, fire, moose hunting, and subsistence (G. Kofinas, F.S. Chapin III, K. Kielland, and others).

Overall Synthesis of Resilience/Vulnerability

Vulnerability and resilience of Alaska’s boreal forest to climate change: A synthesis of Bonanza Creek LTER Research (F.S. Chapin III and others).