Title: Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from a Previously Burnt Boreal Evergreen Forest in Saskatchewan 1989
Citation: dataset citation with doi
Study Site: Saskatchewan - Western Boreal, forest burned in 1989
Purpose: Permafrost thaw effects on land-atmosphere interactions
Abstract: CO2 fluxes gathered from a boreal forest in Saskatchewan that had previously wildfires. The 1989 burn site (F89) was northeast of Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, with the humancaused fire covering 13,500 ha. Parts of the area had been logged prior to the fire, and slash residues would have been burned in some locations. Parts of the area were aerially seeded with jack pine seeds in the winter of 1990. The present tree canopy was composed of balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera L.), jack pine, trembling aspen, and birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) and prior to the fire, the stand consisted of these same species aswell asblack spruce.Deadsnags of black spruce and jack pinewere still standing, althoughmost had fallen over and formed a leaningmix of dry, dead tree boles. The understory vegetation consisted mostly of black spruce saplings, saplings of the tree overstory species, bearberry, blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.), raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.), rose (Rosa acicularis Lindl.), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis L.), and reed grass (Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) Nutt.).
Supplemental Information Summary: This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site CA-SF2 Saskatchewan - Western Boreal, forest burned in 1989.
Research:
Further Info: Mkhabela, M., Amiro, B., Barr, A., Black, T., Hawthorne, I., Kidston, J., McCaughey, J., Orchansky, A., Nesic, Z., Sass, A., Shashkov, A., Zha, T. (2009) , Comparison Of Carbon Dynamics And Water Use Efficiency Following Fire And Harvesting In Canadian Boreal Forests Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 149(5), 783-794
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.10.025
Status: Complete
Keywords:
carbon dioxide,
effects of disturbance,
peat properties,
meteorology,
Wildfire,
Geographical coordinates: North: 54.2539, South: 54.2539 East: -105.8775 West: -105.8775
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2001-01-01, End
Date: 2005-01-01
