Spatial and temporal trends in vegetation index in the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest

• Main Author: Baird, Rebecca A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: vegetation surveys; Alaska; Interior Alaska; forest surveys; taigas; Arctic; Bonanza; Fairbanks; Pacific; Climate change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11328

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011 Climate has warmed substantially in boreal Alaska since the mid-1970s. The direct effects of rising temperatures on sub-Arctic ecosystems are already being observed in the form of drought stress, increased fire frequency and severity, and increased...