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NSF Award(s) DEB-0080609 (View all sites)

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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Contact Information
Site Contacts
Principal Investigator: F. Chapin
Primary Contact: Jamie Hollingsworth
Information Mgr: Jason Downing
Education Contact:
Address:
Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit
901 S. Koyukuk Dr. Ste. 193
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Phone: 907.474.7470
Fax: 907.474-6251
Email: fsjh@uaf.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.
Research Topics
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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Site Coordinates
Lat: +64.800
Long. -148.000
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Climate Info.
  High Mean Low
Temperature 2.9 c -2.9c -8.8c
Windspeed m/s m/s m/s
Preciptation NA 263 mm NA
Other Climate Info
Snow Day: 20
Sunshine Day: 250		 Water Balance:
Evapotranspiration: AET: PET:
rel_parm: rel_stat: dim_parm: dim_stat:
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