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How will climate change shift the tundra - taiga interface?

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MODIS true-color, cloud-free composite of the northern hemisphere in 2001. The circumpolar taiga-tundra ecotone benchmarked in this study is about 13,400 km long (Image source: NASA).

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Ranson et al. used MODIS data to map tree cover at the Earth's longest vegetation transition zone.

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