ArticleEcology and evolution2026
Climate Warming Will Reduce Boreal Forest Litterfall, but the Response Differs Among Plant Functional Types.
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Abstract
Boreal forests are critical carbon sinks increasingly threatened by climate change. More than two-thirds of this boreal carbon is stored in soil and litter, highlighting the crucial role of litterfall for carbon and nutrient cycling. Boreal forests have stands of different plant functional types (deciduous, evergreen, and mixed), and we lack information on their contributions to litterfall production. This hinders our understanding of spatiotemporal variations in boreal litterfall production, and thus predictions under future climate scenarios. Here, we synthesized boreal litterfall data from published studies and applied generalized additive models to (1) examine stand age- and temperature-related litterfall dynamics across plant functional types and (2) project future trends under climate change, using two climate scenarios [CMIP6 climate scenarios (SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5)]. Mean litterfall production was 1959 kg ha
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