Relating structural growth environment to white spruce sapling establishment at the Forest-Tundra Ecotone

Andrew Maguire1, Natalie Boelman2, Kevin Lee Griffin3, Elisabeth Hiers4, Johanna Jensen5, Daniel M Johnson6, Lee Alexander Vierling7 and Jan Eitel7, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, New York, United States, (4)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (5)Columbia University, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, New York City, United States, (6)University of Idaho, Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, (7)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States