Title: Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from a Boreal Mixedwood Forest in Ontario
Citation: Harry McCaughey (2019), AmeriFlux BASE CA-Gro Ontario - Groundhog River, Boreal Mixedwood Forest, Ver. 2-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1245996
Study Site: Ontario - Groundhog River, Boreal Mixedwood Forest
Purpose: Dynamics of carbon dioxide, water, and energy fluxes and the associated meteorological drivers; assessment of the ecological character of the forest; examination of the use of remote sensing to model carbon dioxide exchange and the status of macronutrients in the canopy
Abstract: CO2 fluxes from a boreal mixedwood forest in Groundhog River, Ontario, data collected from 2003 continuing to present. Groundhog River (FCRN or CCP site "ON-OMW") is situated in a typical boreal mixedwood forest in northeastern Ontario about 80 km southwest of Timmins in Reeves Twp. near the Groundhog River. Rowe (1972) places the site in the Missinaibi-Cabonga Section of the Boreal Forest Region. In terms of ecoregion and ecozone, the site is in the Lake Timiskaming Lowlands of the Boreal Shield. The forest developed after high-grade logging in the 1930's. The average age in 2013 is estimated at beteen 75 and 80 years. The forest is dominated by five species characteristic of Ontario boreal mixedwoods: trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench.) Voss.), white birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.). The surficial geology is a lacustrine deposit of varved or massive clays, silts and silty sands. The soil is an orthic gleysol with a soil moisture regime classified as fresh to very fresh. Plonski (1974) rates it as a site class 1. The topography is simple and flat with an overall elevation of 340 m ASL.
Supplemental Information Summary: This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site CA-Gro Ontario - Groundhog River, Boreal Mixedwood Forest
Research:
Further Info: McCaughey, J., Pejam, M., Arain, M., Cameron, D. (2006) , Carbon Dioxide And Energy Fluxes From A Boreal Mixedwood Forest Ecosystem In Ontario, Canada Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 140(1-4), 79-96. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.08.010
Study site website: https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/CA-Gro
Status: In-progress
Keywords:
carbon dioxide,
remote sensing,
vegetation,
meteorology,
Geographical coordinates: North: 48.2167, South: 48.2167 East: -82.1556 West: -82.1556
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2003-01-01, End
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