forest-tundra

[¦fär·əst ¦tən·drə]

(ecology)

A temperate and cold savanna which occurs at high altitudes and consists of scattered or clumped trees and a shrub layer of varying coverage.

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Modeling the influence of topographic barriers on treeline advance at the forest-tundra ecotone in northwestern Alaska.

Infrastructure development accelerates range expansion of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides, Salicaceae) into the Arctic

Cryosolic soils of three geographic zones of Yakutia: taiga forests, tundra and forest-tundra were objects of research (see Fig.

Lumbricoid fauna of cryosolic soils of Yakutia

Previous surveys of small mammals in Alaska (Cook and MacDonald 2004, 2006) identified a contact zone between 2 closely related species of the cinereus complex of shrews (Van Zyll de Jong 1991; Demboski and Cook 2003) along the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Alaska.

High shrew diversity on Alaska's Seward Peninsula: community assembly and environmental change

The Koryaks are native to northeastern Siberia, on the northern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula and on the adjoining mainland, from the Taigonos Peninsula to the Bering Sea, areas that are characterised by sub-Arctic forest-tundra and tundra.

Russia's frigid heart: a near-permanently frozen region of rivers, mountains, tundra and forest enclosed by the Ural Mountains in the west and the Pacific and Arctic oceans in the east, Siberia is a place of extremes. This selection of photographs from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society taken around the turn of the 20th century, capture scenes from across the mighty region at a time when it was little known outside of Russia

Moose appeared in the forest-tundra zones in the 1950s, occupied the Ponoy River area in the 1960-1970s, and population growth occurred to the north of the forest zone along the tributaries and rivers flowing into the Barents Sea.

The status and management of moose in the Murmansk region, Russia

Most well-drained sites in the northern Quebec forest-tundra are colonized by lichen-heath communities and scattered black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.

Reconstruction of millennial forest dynamics from tree remains in a subarctic tree line peatland

These taxa are restricted to the tundra pollen assemblage zones F1, F2, and F4, and are generally found in tundra or forest-tundra today (Porsild and Cody 1980), although V.

Impact of the Younger Dryas cooling event upon lowland vegetation of Maritime Canada

As expected, transects separated by the greatest difference in elevation were the least similar (higher beta diversity/species turnover); however, species turnover between the forest and forest-tundra transects was higher than it was between forest-tundra and alpine-tundra transects, even though the latter were separated by a greater elevation.

Complex changes in plant communities across a subarctic alpine tree line in Labrador, Canada

To test both hypotheses, we analyzed macrofossil remains across a long transect from forest-tundra to tundra, to determine whether or not the eastern Canadian forest limit shifted in unison with climate change during the late Holocene.

The long-term stability of the boreal forest limit in subarctic Quebec

2A-D); these spanned the tree line from the boreal forest to the tundra, with one measurement site located in the tundra (TR1), one in the forest-tundra transition zone (TR2), and two in the open forest (TR3 and TR4).

Analysis of daily air temperatures across a topographically complex alpine region of southwestern Yukon, Canada

The forest-tundra ecotone is expected to experience some of the initial effects of climate change.

Structure and composition of Tree Islands and Krummholz within the Forest-Tundra Ecotone in Central and Eastern Canada

Structure and Composition of Tree Islands and Krummholz within the Forest-Tundra Ecotone in Central and Eastern Canada.