ENVS 1030 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Boreal Forest Of Canada, Bioscience, Species Richness
27 Jan 2016
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The effects of climate change on canadian boreal forest fires. Climate change is one of recent history"s most disputed and researched subjects. It is expected to have major impacts worldwide within the next 50-100 years (meehl et al. 2007), and its effects are studied all over the planet, including in. The canadian boreal forest is approximately 3. 09 106 km2 in size, covering approximately 60% of the country"s surface area (price et al. The region is no exception of the effects of climate change, as increasing temperatures and changes in precipitation levels are impacting the ecology of the forest region (price et al. These effects are having a considerable impact on the regime of canadian boreal forest fires, which are presently projected to have increasing trends in frequency, severity, and size (gillett et al. The aim of this paper is to discuss the effects of climate change on forest fire regime in.
