Using aerial lidar to understand the role of climate and herbivory in shaping forest demographics at the Arctic forest-tundra ecotone


Johanna Jensen1, Natalie Boelman2, Kevin Lee Griffin2, Andrew Maguire3, Laia Andreu-Hayles4, Rosanne D'Arrigo5, Jyoti S. Jennewein6, Arjan Meddens7, Rose Oelkers8, Carlos Alberto Silva7,9, Lee Alexander Vierling7 and Jan Eitel7, (1)Columbia University, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, New York City, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, CREAF, Center for Ecological research and Forestry Applications, Barcelona, Spain, (5)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (6)University of Idaho, Natural Resources and Society, Moscow, ID, United States, (7)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (8)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biosciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, ID, United States