Agricultural and Forest Meteorology • Vol 350
Revealing fine-scale variability in boreal forest temperatures using a mechanistic microclimate model
April 2024 • Joonas Kolstela, Tuomas Aakala, Ilya M. D. Maclean, Pekka Niittynen, Julia Kemppinen, Miska Luoto, Tuuli Rissanen, Vilna Tyystjärvi, Hilppa Gregow, O…
Fine-scale temperatures are important drivers of ecosystem functions and biodiversity in boreal forests. However, accounting for large thermal variability has been difficult due to the coarse spatiotemporal resolution of climate data that is commonly applied in studies of biodiversity and forest health. Here, we use a mechanistic microclimate model and geospatial environmental and weather data to reveal microclimate temperature variability in a broad macroclimatic gradient in boreal forest environments. We modelle…