Multidimensional spatial patterns of vegetation recovery post disturbance

北方森林形成了广阔的环极地地带，覆盖了加拿大、斯堪的纳维亚和西伯利亚的广大地区。这个生物群落提供了自然功能来调节许多大气和水文过程，同时为许多动植物物种提供了栖息地。这些北方森林容易受到广泛的自然干扰（如火、昆虫、风），被有效地描述为形成异质动态景观马赛克。此外，广袤的北方森林是一种可再生的自然资源，可用于大量采伐木材和木材纤维；因此，通过人为影响进一步改变了马赛克。

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.