Multidimensional spatial patterns of vegetation recovery post disturbance

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The boreal forest forms a wide circum-polar swath covering extensive regions of Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia. This biome provides natural functioning to regulate numerous atmospheric and hydrologic processes while providing habitat for many species of flora and fauna. Susceptible to extensive natural disturbances (e.g. fire, insects, wind), these northern forests are effectively described as forming a heterogeneous dynamic landscape mosaic. Additionally, the vast boreal forest represents a renewable natural resource that results in extensive harvesting operations for extracting timber and wood fiber; thus further altering the mosaic through anthropogenic influences.