Relative importance of different secondary successional pathways in an Alaskan boreal forest
@article{Kurkowski2008RelativeIO, title={Relative importance of different secondary successional pathways in an Alaskan boreal forest}, author={Thomas A. Kurkowski and Daniel H. Mann and T. Scott Rupp and David L. Verbyla}, journal={Canadian Journal of Forest Research}, year={2008}, volume={38}, pages={1911-1923} }
Postfire succession in the Alaskan boreal forest follows several different pathways, the most common being self-replacement and species-dominance relay. In self-replacement, canopy-dominant tree species replace themselves as the postfire dominants. It implies a relatively unchanging forest composition through time maintained by trees segregated within their respective, ecophysiological niches on an environmentally complex landscape. In contrast, species-dominance relay involves the simultaneous…
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