Controls on microbial processing of dissolved organic matter in boreal forest streams

• Main Author: Schmidt, Marie
• Other Authors: Jones, Jay, Harms, Tamara, Guerard, Jennifer
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: water; organic compounds; Alaska; Interior Alaska; permafrost; Taiga ecology; permafrost forest ecology; extracellular enzymes; microbial ecology; Bonanza; Fairbanks; Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed; taiga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11287

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020 In the boreal forest, permafrost thaw is resulting in changes in vegetation and deepening of watershed flowpaths. Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed contains sub-catchments underlain with varying permafrost extents (4-53% cover), providing the...