Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Stronger influence of anthropogenic disturbance than climate change on century-scale compositional changes in northern forests

  • Victor Danneyrolles,
  • Sébastien Dupuis,
  • Gabriel Fortin,
  • Marie Leroyer,
  • André de Römer,
  • Raphaële Terrail,
  • Mark Vellend,
  • Yan Boucher,
  • Jason Laflamme,
  • Yves Bergeron,
  • Dominique Arseneault

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09265-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Separating anthropogenic and climatic impacts on forest compositions can be challenging due to a lack of data. Here the authors look at forest compositional changes in eastern Canada since the 19th century and find land use has most strongly shaped communities towards disturbance-adapted species.