Can-Peat Metadata Record
Title: AmeriFlux BASE CA-LU1 Steen River
Citation: Christopher Schulze, David Olefeldt, Oliver Sonnentag (2025), AmeriFlux BASE CA-LU1 Steen River, Ver. 1-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/2574382
Study Site: Steen River, Alberta
Purpose: Steen River is a peat plateau that burned in extreme fire conditions in late May 2019. Prior to the fire the site was likley and open canopy of stunted black spruce and a ground layer of Labrador tea shurbs and lichen or sphagnum with around >150cm of peat. All low shrubs were consumed by the fire, Sphagnum mosees were singed but not combusted, all the trees deceased with needles, tertiary, secondary branches consumed by fire and >30% of primary branches rmained.
Abstract: This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site CA-LU1 Steen River.
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Status: Complete
Keywords:
carbon dioxide,
wildfire,
Geographical coordinates: North: 59.62171136336646, South: 59.62171136336646 East: -117.16943169614693 West: -117.16943169614693
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2020-01-01, End
Date: 2023-12-31
