News Headline
Canada’s eastern boreal forest could become a climate change refuge
Source
Mongabay.com
Publication Date
2016-09-16
With climate change driving species in the Northern Hemisphere ever further up the latitudinal ladder, a recent study released in the journal Science finds that Canada’s eastern boreal forests may act as crucial ecological reservoirs, islands of cooler habitat for the dominant tree species, black spruce (Picea mariana), and the panoply of plant and animal life that depend on it.