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ArticleNature communications2026

Northward expansion of high-stature vegetation reveals net surface-cooling feedbacks in the majority of Canadian Boreal-Tundra ecozones.

Daniel Chukwuemeka Amaogu, Enoch Ofosu, Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Jérôme Pigeon, Lukas U Arenson, Richard Boudreault, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Yuri Leonenko, Pooneh Maghoul

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Daniel Chukwuemeka AmaoguSustainable Infrastructure and Geoengineering Lab (SIGLab), Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada. daniel-chukwuemeka.amaogu@etud.polymtl.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-8253-2670
Enoch OfosuDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Kevin Bradley DsouzaDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Jérôme PigeonSustainable Infrastructure and Geoengineering Lab (SIGLab), Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Lukas U ArensonSustainable Infrastructure and Geoengineering Lab (SIGLab), Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7172-6683
Richard BoudreaultSustainable Infrastructure and Geoengineering Lab (SIGLab), Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Juan Moreno-CruzSchool of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3707-142X
Yuri LeonenkoDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Pooneh MaghoulSustainable Infrastructure and Geoengineering Lab (SIGLab), Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada. pooneh.maghoul@polymtl.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-0457-3968

Funding

Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) ALLRP 576419 - 22Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) ALLRP 577126-2022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate warming has driven widespread shrub and tree expansion across the Canadian boreal-tundra. This is widely expected to amplify surface warming. However, whether this expectation is supported by observations remains unresolved. Here we show, using satellite observations of vegetation change alongside climate and surface-energy data from 1986 to 2023, that about 70% of central and northern Canadian ecozones exhibit net surface cooling tendencies, driven by interactions between vegetation change and the environment that reduce the energy available to warm the land surface ( -0.003 to  -0.009W m

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Climate ChangeTaigaTundraCanadaEcosystemForestsTreesWetlands

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PMID42669709
PMCPMC13527116

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