Active layer depths: Survey Line Fire (2004 - Present)

In 2001 the Survey Line Fire burned an area of black spruce forest along the Tanana River adjacent to the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest. In 2002 two research sites were established within the burn, one in a dry area and one in a wet area. When wildfire burns through a northern black spruce fores...

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Other Authors: JamieHollingsworth, VladimirRomanovsky
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Bonanza Creek LTERBoreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit University of Alaska FairbanksP.O. Box 756780 FairbanksAK99775USA907-474-6364907-474-6251 2007
Subjects:
active layer
thaw depth
succession
permafrost
Bonanza
Cotton-grass
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.17607
http://metacat.lternet.edu/knb/metacat/knb-lter-bnz.240.8/xml
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Summary:In 2001 the Survey Line Fire burned an area of black spruce forest along the Tanana River adjacent to the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest. In 2002 two research sites were established within the burn, one in a dry area and one in a wet area. When wildfire burns through a northern black spruce forest there is usually a subsequent increase in depth of thaw, due in part to the reduction in the depth of the organic layer. Thaw depth is being measured annually at twenty points within each of these sites.

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