Northern forest winters have lost cold, snowy conditions that are important for ecosystems and human communities.

ABSTRACT: Winter is an understudied but key period for the socioecological systems of northeastern North American forests. A growing awareness of the importance of the winter season to forest ecosystems and surrounding communities has inspired several decades of research, both across the northern forest and at other mid- and high-latitude ecosystems around the globe. Despite these efforts, we lack a synthetic understanding of how winter climate change may impact hydrological and biogeochemical processes and the social and economic activities they support. Here, we take advantage of 100 years of meteorological observations across the northern forest region of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada to develop a suite of indicators that enable a cross-cutting understanding of (1) how winter

SUBMITTER: Contosta AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6851584 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature