Title: Carbon Dioxide and Water Fluxes from a Boreal Evergreen Forest in Northwest Territories
Citation: Oliver Sonnentag, William L Quinton (2025), AmeriFlux BASE CA-SCC Scotty Creek Landscape, Ver. 2-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1480303
Study Site: Scotty Creek Landscape
Purpose: Permafrost thaw effects on land-atmosphere interactions
Abstract: CO2, H2O fluxes from a boreal evergreen forest in Northwest Territories currently experiencing permafrost thaw, data gathered from 2013 continuing to present. The Scotty Creek flux tower is located in an organic-rich boreal forest-wetland landscape about 50 km south of Fort Simpson in the Taiga Plains of the Mackenzie watershed. The tower was installed in 2013 and operates an open-path EC system year-round running on solar power only. Flux footprints contain about 50 % forested peat plateaus and 50 % wetlands (i.e., collapse-scar bogs). The forests are underlain by permafrost, while the treeless wetlands are permafrost-free. The tower itself is located on a forested peat plateau. Black spruce tree density on plateaus is sparse and the mean canopy height is ca. 5 m.
Supplemental Information Summary: This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site CA-SCC Scotty Creek Landscape.
Research:
Further Info: Helbig, M., Chasmer, L. E., Desai, A. R., Kljun, N., Quinton, W. L., Sonnentag, O. (2017) , Direct And Indirect Climate Change Effects On Carbon Dioxide Fluxes In A Thawing Boreal Forest-Wetland Landscape Global Change Biology, 23(8), 3231-3248
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13638
Status: In-progress
Keywords:
carbon dioxide,
peat properties,
effects of disturbance,
Geographical coordinates: North: 61.3079, South: 61.3079 East: -121.2992 West: -121.2992
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2013-01-01, End
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