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Competitive Interactions Under Current Climate Allow Temperate Tree Species to Grow and Survive in Boreal Mixedwood Forest by Maxence Soubeyrand; Fabio Gennaretti; Olivier Blarquez; Yves Bergeron; Anthony R. Taylor; Loïc D'Orangeville; Philippe Marchand is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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With climate change, climatic optima are shifting poleward more rapidly than tree migration processes, resulting in a mismatch between species distributions and bioclimatic envelopes. Temperate hardwood tree species may take advantage of the release of climate constraints and forest management to migrate into the boreal forest. Here, we use the SORTIE-ND forest simulation model to determine the potential for the persistence of three temperate species (sugar maple, red maple and yellow birch) when introduced at seedling stage in typical balsam fir-paper birch (BF-PB) bioclimatic domain stands of eastern Canada, quantifying the consequences on the native species composition. SORTIE-ND is a spatially explicit, individual-based forest stand model that simulates tree growth, regeneration and mortality. We performed a novel parameterization of the SORTIE-ND tree growth equation allowing for the inclusion of climate modifiers on tree growth. After validating our model with data from permanent forest inventory plots, we modeled the dynamics of unharvested stands at different successional stages, as well as post-harvest stands, after the addition of sugar maple, red maple and yellow birch s

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Author

Maxence Soubeyrand; Fabio Gennaretti; Olivier Blarquez; Yves Bergeron; Anthony R. Taylor; Loïc D'Orangeville; Philippe Marchand

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)