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This paper provides an overview of a project that synthesized available information on climate change for the southwest Yukon. This was done as a first step in a longer-term process of evaluating climate impacts, assessing risks to ecosystem and community values, and developing scenarios for adaptation. The overall intent of the work was to support informed forest management decision-making for the Champagne-Aishihik Traditional Territory (CATT) in the light of climate change. The objectives of this stage of the project were to: compile and improve access to existing baseline information needed to support informed management decisions in the face of climate change; to make this information available using several...
Climate change has the potential to affect the boreal forest of Canada. Forest fires are a crucial component of the boreal ecosystem and climate change may substantially alter the fire regime. Statistical relations between climate and forest fire were obtained by regression for three fire subdistricts (Old Crow, Mayo and Watson Lake) of Yukon Territory. The relations were derived from fire and climate records, available, in general, since 1960. Summer temperature was found to be positively correlated to forest fire occurrence, area burned, the Fire Weather Index and Seasonal Severity Rating. In most cases, summer precipitation and relative humidity were negatively correlated with these variables. Climate change...
Aim To understand: (1) how temperature, precipitation and stand age control the above-ground biomass carbon density (BCDa) of mature forests and its macroecology patterns across latitudes; (2) the age threshold for old-growth forests at a global scale. Location Global forests. Methods We compiled a database (897 sites) of mature forests between 80 and 1200 years old. The site data include latitude, longitude, mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, forest type, stand age, BCDa, living biomass (above- and below-ground biomass) carbon density and total (living plus dead) biomass carbon density. Based on the site data, we performed regression analyses to show how BCDa changes with climate and forest stand...
Tracking landscape-scale water status in high-latitude boreal systems is indispensible to understanding the fate of stored and sequestered carbon in a climate change scenario. Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery provides critical information for water and moisture status in Alaskan boreal environments at the landscape scale. When combined with results from optical sensor analyses, a complementary picture of vegetation, biomass, and water status emerges. Whereas L-band SAR showed better inherent capacity to map water status, C-band had much more temporal coverage in this study. Analysis through the use of L- and C-band SARs combined with Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) enables landscape...
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Detailed observations of stream, soil, and groundwater chemistry were used to determine the role of fire, permafrost and snowmelt processes on the fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and major solutes from interior Alaskan catchments. We examined an experimentally burned watershed and two reference watersheds that differ in permafrost coverage (high, 53%; medium-burn, 18%; and low, 4%) during the FROSTFIRE prescribed burn in July 1999. The fire elevated stream nitrate concentrations for a short period during the first post-fire storm, but nitrate declined thereafter, suggesting that less severe fires that leave an intact riparian zone may have only a short-term effect on stream chemistry. Nevertheless, we found fundamental...
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The Spatial Alaskan Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (SAFED) model was validated across four of the most common vegetation types found in interior Alaska. The vegetation types were an aldef (Alnus spp.) - balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera L.) site (FP2), an old-growth balsam poplar and white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) site (FP3), a mixed deciduous (primarily birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) and aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.)) and white spruce site (UP2), and a mature white spruce site (UP3). The FP site types are common on the floodplain along the Tanana River and the UP site types are common in the uplands in interior Alaska. SAFED is based on nitrogen productivity for vegetation growth, litter fall quantity...
Because of the key role played by fire in structuring boreal forest ecosystems, interactions between vegetation and fire regime may be an important and dynamic control of forest response to climate change. This research uses a series of field observations and experiments in boreal forests to examine the nature of several potential fire and vegetation interactions, and how such interactions may influence forest response to climate change. Long-term observations of post-fire succession provide information on the timing of tree establishment and the effects of early establishment on subsequent successional trajectories. The role of competitive interactions in driving patterns of early establishment was tested with...
Climate change has the potential to affect the boreal forest of Canada. Forest fires are a crucial component of the boreal ecosystem and climate change may substantially alter the fire regime. Statistical relations between climate and forest fire were obtained by regression for three fire subdistricts (Old Crow, Mayo and Watson Lake) of Yukon Territory. The relations were derived from fire and climate records, available, in general, since 1960. Summer temperature was found to be positively correlated to forest fire occurrence, area burned, the Fire Weather Index and Seasonal Severity Rating. In most cases, summer precipitation and relative humidity were negatively correlated with these variables. Climate change...
This paper provides an overview of a project that synthesized available information on climate change for the southwest Yukon. This was done as a first step in a longer-term process of evaluating climate impacts, assessing risks to ecosystem and community values, and developing scenarios for adaptation. The overall intent of the work was to support informed forest management decision-making for the Champagne-Aishihik Traditional Territory (CATT) in the light of climate change. The objectives of this stage of the project were to: compile and improve access to existing baseline information needed to support informed management decisions in the face of climate change; to make this information available using several...
map background search result map search result map Mountain Pine Beetle in British Columbia Spruce beetle outbreaks on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon Territory: Relationship to summer temperatures and regional differences in disturbance regimes Rapid Cycling of Organic Nitrogen in Taiga Forest Ecosystems Human Impacts on the Fire Regime of Interior Alaska: Interactions among Fuels, Ignition Sources, and Fire Suppression Export of carbon, nitrogen and major solutes from a boreal forest watershed: The influence of fire and permafrost Human Impact on Fire Regime in Interior Alaska Boreal forest ecosystem dynamics. II. Application of the model to four vegetation types in interior Alaska Rapid Cycling of Organic Nitrogen in Taiga Forest Ecosystems Export of carbon, nitrogen and major solutes from a boreal forest watershed: The influence of fire and permafrost Spruce beetle outbreaks on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon Territory: Relationship to summer temperatures and regional differences in disturbance regimes Human Impacts on the Fire Regime of Interior Alaska: Interactions among Fuels, Ignition Sources, and Fire Suppression Boreal forest ecosystem dynamics. II. Application of the model to four vegetation types in interior Alaska Human Impact on Fire Regime in Interior Alaska Mountain Pine Beetle in British Columbia