Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 October 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01851-w

Wildfire can lead to shifts in forest composition to more deciduous tree cover, which can have a biophysical cooling effect on climate. This study finds no net increase in deciduous cover or biophysical cooling over boreal North America in recent decades, despite widespread landscape scale change. Nature Climate Change