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Boreal Fire Effects on Subsistence Resources in Alaska and Adjacent Canada

2008-02-01

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Rural communities in the northern boreal forest depend on a suite of wild species for subsistence, including large game animals, furbearers, fish, and plants. Fire is one of the primary ecological disturbances and determinants of landscape pattern in the northern boreal forest. We review responses of key boreal subsistence species to variation and change in post-fire stand age and other characteristics. Available...

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Literature Corpus work: c32b1d89-09e2-5672-acef-89d67bdcb365
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9114-z

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