Fire severity mediates climate-driven shifts in understorey community composition of black spruce stands of interior Alaska
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Bernhardt, E. L. ([email protected]) & Chapin, F. S. III. ([email protected]): Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA Hollingsworth, T. N. (corresponding author, [email protected]): USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit, P.O. Box 756780, University Of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA Present address: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Sciences Laboratory, 3301 C Street, Suite 200f Anchorage AK 99503, USA Abstract
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