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DEB-0620579
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The Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research program is located in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, USA. Our facilities are centered in the city of Fairbanks. Research at our LTER site focuses on improving our understanding of the long-term consequences of changing climate and disturbance regimes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Our overall objective is to document the major controls over forest dynamics, biogeochemistry, and disturbance and their interactions in the face of a changing climate. The site was established in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1987 as part of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program
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Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit
901 S. Koyukuk Dr. Ste. 193
Fairbanks, AK 99775 |
| Phone: 907.474.7470 |
| Fax: 907.474-6251 |
| Email: jhollingsworth@alaska.edu |
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| Site History |
The Bonanza Creek LTER is currently in its third funding cycle. LTER 1, LTER 2 and LTER 3 are successive proposals to date. Bonanza Creek operates under LTER 3 but much of the research design for core datasets originates from LTER 1 and LTER 2.
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Successional processes associated with wildfire and floodplains; facilitative and competitive interactions among plant species throughout succession; plant-mediated changes in resource and energy availability for decomposers; herbivorous control of plant species composition; hydrologic regime and stream ecology.
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| Climate Info. |
| Annual |
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| Temperature |
-1.12 c |
16.41c |
-18.90c |
| Precipitation |
450 mm/year |
263 mm/year |
137 mm/year |
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