<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="esc-lead-article-source-wrapper" style="margin: 2px 32px 2px 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">In a warming climate, species are expected to move northward in latitude and upward in elevation. This is indeed the case with marten on the Kenai Peninsula.</span></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table class="single-line-height al-attribution" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 13px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="al-attribution-cell source-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 0px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="al-attribution-source" style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000" class="">Kenai Peninsula Online</font></span></td><td class="al-attribution-cell timestamp-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="dash-separator" style="line-height: 13px; font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">
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Mortsch,, M. Brklacich, D.L.”North America. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.” </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">*****************************************************************************************************************************</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">“Serious thresholds are crossed when forests convert to vegetation types without trees and, as a result, lose valued forest ecosystem services. ”<br class=""> <br class="">Constance I. Millar and Nathan L. Stephenson. Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance. Science 21 August 2015</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">************************************************************************************************************************</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"For example, a study modeling changes in one basin in Glacier National Park predicts …. area now covered by forests of all types will decline </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">after the middle of the century, replaced partly by grasslands, which are not now present (Hall and Fagre 2003).”</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Cited in Rocky Mountain Forests at Risk <<<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2014/09/Rocky-Mountain-Forests-at-Risk-Full-Report.pdf" class="">http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2014/09/Rocky-Mountain-Forests-at-Risk-Full-Report.pdf</a>>></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""> <br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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