Quantifying changes in northern high latitude ecosystems and associated feedbacks to the climate system
The primary focus of this NASA supported research project is to examine the tradeoffs between carbon and energy fluxes in two boreal forest study regions (Interior Alaska and Cherskii Russia) across three different periods of post-fire succession: (1) immediately following fire (years 1-6 after fire), (2) at intermediate stand ages (20-40 years after fire), (3) in older stands (more than 60 years after fire).