Title: Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from a Previously Burnt Boreal Evergreen Forest in Saskatchewan 1998
Citation: Brian Amiro (2020), AmeriFlux BASE CA-SF3 Saskatchewan - Western Boreal, forest burned in 1998, Ver. 2-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1246008
Study Site: Saskatchewan - Western Boreal, forest burned in 1998
Purpose: Permafrost thaw effects on land-atmosphere interactions
Abstract: CO2 fluxes gathered from a boreal forest in Saskatchewan that had previously wildfires. The 1998 burn site (F98) was in the east part of Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, in the Waskesiu Fire, ignited by lightning that burned about 1700 ha in July 1998. The pre-fire forest consisted of jack pine and black spruce stands, with some intermixed aspen. The fire was severe, consuming much of the top layer of organic soil and killing all trees. In 2001, much of the regenerating vegetation consisted of aspen saplings about 1 m tall and shorter jack pine and black spruce seedlings. An overstory of dead, leafless jack pine trees dominated at a height of 18 m. Sparse grass and herbs, such as fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium L.) covered the ground. There were a large number of fallen dead trees, mostly perched above the ground and not decomposing quickly.
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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,
peat properties,
effects of disturbance,
Wildfire,
Geographical coordinates: North: 54.0916, South: 54.0916 East: -106.0053 West: -106.0053
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2001-01-01, End
Date: 2006-01-01
