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Press Release: Canadian Forests a Refuge as Climate Change Creeps North

Scientific paper in Science: Northeastern North America as a potential refugium for boreal forests in a warming climate

Contact

Rose-Aline Leblanc, Press Relations Advisor, UQAM Communications Service: 514-987-3000 ext.2248; leblanc.rose-aline@uqam.ca

Neil Pederson, co-author of study and Senior Ecologist at Harvard Forest: 978-756-6141; neilpederson@fas.harvard.edu

Loïc D’Orangeville, author of study and postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal and Indiana University: 514-987-3000 ext.4819; loicdorangeville@gmail.com

Photographs

(Media outlets are welcome to use these with credit; click photo for high-res)

Black spruce - a key species in Canada's boreal forest, both ecologically and economically. Photo by Loïc D’Orangeville.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boreal forest. Photo by Guillame Ajavon. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boreal forest. Photo by Loïc D’Orangeville.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D'Orangeville and his colleagues examined tree-ring samples from over 26,000 trees in Quebec. Photo by Mario St-Germain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tree ring analysis. Photo courtesy of Ministère des Forēts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec.