Anthony R. Taylor

TL;DR: The state of knowledge of the main mechanisms, and their associated traits, that underpin the ability of boreal and temperate tree species to persist and (or) shift their distribution in a changing climate are reviewed.

TL;DR: Long-term monitoring, manipulative experiments, and process modeling of climate-induced phenological changes on herbivorous insect pests, their host tree species, and natural enemies in northern forests are crucial to predicting species range shifts and assessing ecological and economic impacts.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that in the prolonged absence of stand-replacing disturbance boreal forest stands undergo multiple succession pathways, which support the resource-ratio hypothesis of plant succession.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors simulated changes in tree growth and disturbances at the southern edge of Canada's boreal zone and projected changes in forest landscapes resulting from four climate scenarios (baseline RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5).

TL;DR: The results suggest that resource filtering by overstorey trees might have reduced the strength of the positive diversity–productivity relationships in the forest understorey, supporting previous hypotheses that the magnitude and direction of diversity–Productivity relationships is context specific and dependent on the conditions of the surrounding environment.