Climate Change On The Boreal Forests In Canada

Native bird species will be forced to fly further north during migrating season, causing problems with repopulating.3

Canada's Boreal is one of the last boundary forests left in the world. It provides vital assistance that humanity relies on.

Yet, water limitations are reducing the capacity of black spruce. With a decrease of the Black Spruce species within this ecosystem, there will be inevitably less trees to fix carbon. With the inability for a biological system to convert carbon dioxide to organic compound, this leaves CO2 within the atmosphere, increasing the Greenhouse house gas effect and thus surface temperatures. Additionally, supporting the fact that future warming may result in drought stress, further prohibiting the growth of the Black Spruce species. This affect is bound to trigger a compositional change, consequently impacting the whole ecosystem. This should not be considered unanticipated information, seeing as there is a direct relationship between vegetation and climate change in boreal ecosystems. Warm climates may not be suitable for all species within that habitat, so species will naturally migrate as the temperature increases. Forest fires alone can have long-lasting effects on the environment, in terms of community succession, which has been briefly

How are native species specifically affected by climate change and invasive species in Canada’s national parks and why?

Since humans are moving into the natural habitats plant species are dwindling in numbers. Which alters the habitats for which birds relied on for a camouflaged and protected home? Migratory birds are also moving to other areas due to the land pollution. Human waste, cigarette butts, snack wrappers, and beverage containers are all contributing to the growing land pollution.

How are native species specifically affected by climate change and invasive species in Canada’s national parks and why?

I chose this article because I think it’s an important topic that affects Canada greatly. People all across the world are affected by climate change, but Canada will experience it more than any other place due to the fact that we are far from the equator and higher up North. This should be a concern to Canadians everywhere, because although people in Nunavut will feel warming worse than in Ontario, we are all still going to be affected by this in some way. It’s never too late to take action, and before conditions get worse, we should look into ways of reducing climate change. Not only is it worrying that people will be harmed and forced to move because of this, but we are hurting our planet, and now is the time to change that. Gregory Flato

Lowered breeding times adversely affect the animals’ ability to nest, reproduce, and rear their young with adequate time. Scientist have found that some “species of migratory birds are arriving at summer nesting grounds in the northern hemisphere earlier than they did before global temperatures began increasing last century” (Travers 2015). Studies have also shown that the American Crow is less likely to colonize sites that continually get warmer (Epanchin 2014). The same research found that the crow will likely go extinct at sites that have been made warmer in subsequent years. Because of this information, one can deduce that the American Crow is temperature sensitive. These findings force us to ask, if temperature increases in a region, then will American crow populations decrease accordingly? It is my contention that if an area experiences increasing temperatures, then the crow population of the area will directly decrease. Measures must be taken to stop and reverse the effects of global warming if there is any chance of preserving American crow

The first driver is observed climate change impacts. In Canada, and in Ontario specifically, the ways in which the climate is changing are generally known to us. Shorter and warmer winters, earlier snow melts, increased extreme precipitation, and extreme heat events. These observed climate impacts and more frequent extreme weather events are proving to be very costly. The Insurance Bureau of Canada, for instance, reported that the value of total insurance claims related to weather events has increased 40 fold between 1983 and 2013 (Burgess, 2014). Impacts on the health and well-being of Canadians are also displayed beyond monetary costs and frequently involve displacement, injuries and loss of life (Lemmen & Warren, 2008). Without aggressive

In the article “The Seasons Aren’t What They Used to Be,” David George Haskell berates that fact that climate change is evident in most forms of life around us, however, humans have refused to acknowledge the obvious signs and take necessary action. Haskell is a professor of biology on the faculty of Sewanee University in Sewanee, Tennessee. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University and writes about biodiversity, evolution, and conservation. Haskell education background and experience give him the credibility to speak on the effect of climate change. Haskell’s purpose is to point out the signs of the changes in season triggered by climate change and its effect on plant, animal and human

When someone says Canada, the first thing that pops up would be these sweet and delicious maple syrup. Though Canada is known for the production of maple syrup, it also a country filled with nature and wildlife. With over three million lakes, more than any country, it is no surprise that going to the lakes is the most popular outdoor activity. In addition, Canada has the cleanest air on the planet. In 50 years, Canada will change drastically, with the population and immigration rate doubled, Canada’s pollution will very likely increase.

To use forests for their lumber and other natural resources, it is important to not only be informed on managing it, but it is also important to know what goes on naturally inside the forests. One of these natural phenomena are actually the threats to the forests themselves and how they can be affected by them. Canada has one-tenth of the world's forest and about 50,000 hectares of this is untouched (Dearden and Mitchell, 2016, P.287). With that, it also has one-third of the world's boreal forest as well (P.287). The chosen topic of this paper is Natural threats to Canadian forests. The specific situation chosen is how the climate change affects the natural threats to the Canadian boreal forests. The topic was chosen because it is relevant

The article, Will environmental changes reinforce the impact of global warming on the prairie-forest border of Central North America?, focused on the changes or drivers that cause the forest to shift northward. Winter has become milder, and human activities contributed to the global warming. Frelich and Reich (2009) talked about the northward shift of biomes that could result in the potential loss of forests of land in Central North America. Their article explored the important drivers of changing along the prairie-forest border in Central North America, and how the impact of the forests due to global warming. They pointed out the direct impacts on the forests in the Central North America, for example drought, climate change, diseases, insect invasion, and the deer

Maple trees and the maple syrup industry really help Climate Change. Not only are trees not getting cut down, more trees are getting planted so the company can keep up with the high demands for maple syrup. There are 34 million Quebec maple trees in production and 7,300 maple syrup production businesses in Quebec. This results in more trees using our carbon dioxide and through photosynthesis, giving us more oxygen. Quebec’s maple syrup-producing forests absorb and store 8 times more carbon than the maple syrup production process releases. Maple trees help us control climate change as CO2 emissions are a big part of climate change. It also helps the air quality because there is less CO2 in the air, but the maple trees also replace it with oxygen.

do the big things?Climate change affects the Monarch butterflies in the butterfly species in categories such as hibernation,migration,reproduction resulting in many deaths of monarch butterflies ,for they rely on environmental cues which can cause problems such as many deaths of butterflies ;therefore, planting a forest for a ecosystem and protection it can block the weather that kills the monarchs will help them(Ana Campoy).