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The Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research
We are located in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, USA and 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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Click here to see a recent image from the web camera in the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest.  It is located at the FP5C research site and overlooks the 2010 Willow Creek Fire.



HOT...NEW!!! Bonanza Creek Publications Bibliography Search Page

Journal Articles:

Adger, W. N., J. Barnett, F.S. Chapin, III, and H. Ellemor. 2011. This must be the place: Underrepresentation of identity and meaning in climate change decision-making. Global Environmental Politics 11(2):1-25.

Barrett, K., A.D. McGuire, E.E. Hoy, and E.S. Kasischke. 2011 Potential shifts in dominant forest cover in interior Alaska driven by variations in fire severity. Ecological Applications 21: 2380-2396

Beck, P. S. A., S. J. Goetz, H. Alexander, M. C. Mack, Y. Jin, J. T. Randerson, M. M. Loranty. 2011. The effects and implications of an intensifying fire regime on boreal forest in Alaska. Global Change Biology, 17(9): 2853-2866, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.

Beck, PSA, GP Juday, C Alix, VA Barber, SE Winslow, EE Sousa, P Heiser, JD Herriges, SJ Goetz. 2011 Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01598.x

Bent, E, P. Kiekel, R. Brenton, and D.L. Taylor. 2011 Root-associated ectomycorrhizal fungi shared by various boreal forest seedlings naturally regenerating after a fire in interior Alaska and correlation of different fungi with host growth responses. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 3351-3359. doi:10.1128/AEM.02575-10

Bernhardt, EL, TN Hollingsworth, FS Chapin III. 2011 Fire severity mediates climate-driven shifts in understorey community composition of black spruce stands of interior Alaska. Journal of Vegetation Science 22: 32-44. DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01231.x

Brinkman, T.J., D.K. Person, F.S. Chapin, III, W. Smith, and K.J. Hundertmark. 2011. Estimating abundance of Sitka black-tailed deer using DNA from fecal pellets. Journal of Wildlife Management 75(1):232-242.

Chapin, F.S., III, M.E. Power, S.T.A. Pickett, A. Freitag, J. A. Reynolds, R.B. Jackson, D.M. Lodge, C. Duke, S.L. Collins, A.G. Power, and A. Bartuska. 2011 Earth Stewardship: Science for action to sustain the human-earth system. Ecosphere 2(8):art89. doi:10.1890/ES11-00166.1.

Chapin, F.S., III, S.T.A. Pickett, M.E. Power, R.B. Jackson, D.M. Carter, and C. Duke. 2011 Earth stewardship: A strategy for social-ecological transformation to reverse planetary degradation. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 1(1):44-53.

Folke, C., A. Jansson, J. Rockstrom, P. Olsson, S. Carpenter, F.S. Chapin III, A.-S. Crepin, G. Daily, K. Danell, J. Ebbesson, T. Elmqvist, V. Galaz, F. Moberg, M. Nilsson, H. Osterblom, E. Ostrom, A. Persson, G. Peterson, S. Polasky, W. Steffen, B. Walker, and F. Westley. 2011 Reconnecting to the biosphere. Ambio, DOI 10.1007/s13280-011-0184-y.

Forbey, J. S., X. Pu, D. Xu, K. Kielland, and J. Bryant. 2011. Inhibition of succinate dehydrogenase activity as a potential mechanism of birch toxicity in snowshoe hares. Journal of Chemical Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s10886-011-0039-9

Geml J, Timling I, Robinson CH, Lennon N, Nusbaum HC, Brochmann C, Noordeloos ME, Taylor DL. 2011 An arctic community of symbiotic fungi assembled by long-distance dispersers: phylogenetic diversity of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes in Svalbard based on soil and sporocarp DNA. Journal of Biogeography. Online Early doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02588.x.

Grosse, G., J. Harden, M. Turetsky, A.D. McGuire, P. Camill, C. Tarnocai, S. Frolking, E.A.G. Schuur, T. Jorgenson, S. Marchenko, V. Romanovsky, K.P. Wickland, N. French, M. Waldrop, L. Bourgeau-Chavez, and R.G. Streigl. 2011 Vulnerability of high-atitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 116, G00K06, 23 pages, doi:10.1029/2010JG001507.

Grosse, G., V. Romanovsky, T. Jorgenson, K. Walter Anthony, J. Brown, and P. Overduin. 2011 Vulnerability and feedbacks of permafrost to climate change. EOS 92(9): 73-80, doi:10.1029/2011EO090001

Hayes, D.J., A.D. McGuire, D.W. Kicklighter, K.R. Gurney, T.J. Burnside, and J.M. Melillo. 2011 Is the northern high latitude land-based CO2 sink weakening? Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25, GB3018, 14 pages, doi:10.1029/2010GB003813.

Hopkins S, Taylor DL. 2011 Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the mycoheterotrophic orchid Corallorhiza maculata with cross-species amplification in Corallorhiza mertensiana. American Journal of Botany Primer Notes. Online Early doi:10.3732/ajb.1100061

Johnson, KD, J Harden, AD McGuire, NB Bliss, JG Bockheim, M Clark, TN Hollingsworth, MT Jorgenson, ES Kane, M Mack, J O'Donnell, C-L Ping, EAG Schuur, MR Turetsky, DW Valentine. 2011 Soil carbon distribution in Alaska in relation to soil-forming factors. Geoderma 167-168: 71-84. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.10.006

Joly, K., D.R. Klein, D.L. Verbyla, T.S. Rupp, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2011. Linkages between large-scale climate patterns and the dynamics of Alaskan caribou populations. Ecography 34:345-352.

Kasischke, E.S. and E.E. Hoy. 2011 Controls on carbon consumption during Alaskan wildland fires. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02573.x

Kasischke, ES, MA Tanase, LL Bourgeau-Chavez, M Borr. 2011 Soil moisture limitations on monitoring boreal forest regrowth using spaceborne L-band SAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment 115: 227-232. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.022

Kennedy, AH, DL Taylor, LE Watson. 2011 Mycorrhizal specificity in the fully mycoheterotrophic Hexalectris Raf. (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae). Molecular Ecology 20: 1303-1316. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05000.x

Kinzig, A.P., C. Perrings, F.S. Chapin III, S. Polasky, V.K. Smith, D. Tilman, and B.L. Turner II. 2011. Paying for ecosystem services: Promise and peril. Science 334 (6056): 603-604.

Koyama, L., and K. Kielland. 2011 Plant physiological responses to hydrologically mediated changes in nitrogen supply on a boreal forest floodplain: a mechanism explaining the discrepancy in nitrogen demand and supply. Plant Soil 342:129-139. DOI 10.1007/s11104-010-0676-8

Liu, S., B. Bond-Lamberty, J.A. Hicke, R. Vargass, S. Zhao, J. Chen, S.L. Edburg, Y. Hu, J. Liu, A.D. McGuire, J. Xiao, R. Keane, W. Yuan, J. Tang, Y. Luo, C. Potter, and J. Oeding. 2011 Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: Processes, data, models, and challenges. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 116, G00K08, doi:10.1029/2010JG001585.

Mack, M.C., M.S. Bret-Harte, T.N. Hollingsworth, R. Jandt, G.R. Shaver, E.A.G. Schuur, and D.A. Verbyla. 2011. Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire. Nature 475: 489-492, doi: 10.1038/nature10283

Magness, D.R., J.M. Morton, F. Huettmann, F.S. Chapin III, and A.D. McGuire. 2011 A climate-change adaptation framework to reduce continental-scale vulnerability across conservation reserves. Ecosphere 2, Article 112, 23 pages, doi:10.1890/ES11-00200.1.

Muskett R.R. and V.E. Romanovsky. 2011 Alaskan permafrost groundwater storage changes derived from GRACE and ground measurements. Remote Sensing 3: 378-397; doi:10.3390/rs3020378

Natali, SM, EAG Schuur, C Trucco, CE Hicks Pries, KG Crummer, and AF Baron Lopez. 2011 Effects of experimental warming of air, soil and permafrost on carbon balance in Alaskan tundra. Global Change Biology 17: 1394-1407. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02303.x

Nossov, DR, TN Hollingsworth, RW Ruess, K Kielland. 2011 Development of Alnus tenuifolia stands on an Alaskan floodplain: patterns of recruitment, disease and succession. Journal of Ecology 99: 621-633. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01792.x

O'Donnell JA, JW Harden, AD McGuire, MZ Kanevskiy, MT Jorgenson, X Xu. 2011 Permafrost controls on soil carbon accumulation in an upland black spruce ecosystem: Implications for post-thaw carbon loss. Global Change Biology 17: 1461-1474, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02358.x.

O'Donnell, J.A., J.W. Harden, A.D. McGuire, and V.E. Romanovsky. 2011 Exploring the sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to climate change, fire disturbance and permafrost thaw in a black spruce ecosystem. Biogeosciences, 8, 1367-1382, doi:10.5194/bg-8-1367-2011

O'Donnell, J.A., M.T. Jorgenson, J.W. Harden, A.D. McGuire, M.Z. Kanevskiy, and K.P. Wickland. 2011 The effects of permafrost thaw on soil hydrologic, thermal and carbon dynamics in an Alaskan peatland. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9504-0

Pan, Y., R.A. Birdsey, J. Fang, R. Houghton, P.E. Kauppi, W.A. Kurz, O.L. Phillips, A. Shvidenko, S.L. Lewis, J.G. Canadell, P. Ciais, R.B. Jackson, S. Pacala, A.D. McGuire, S. Piao, A. Rautiainen, S. Sitch, and D. Hayes. 2011 A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests. Science 333:988-993, doi:10.1126/science.1201609.

Peters, D.P.C., A.E. Lugo, F.S. Chapin, III, S.T.A. Pickett, M. Duniway, A.V. Roca, F.J. Swanson, C. Laney, and J. Jones. 2011 Cross-system comparisons elucidate disturbance complexities and generalities. Ecosphere 2(7):art81. doi:10.1890/ES11-00115.1.

Rohrs-Richey, JK, CPH Mulder, LM Winton, and G Stanosz. 2011 Physiological performance of an Alaskan shrub (Alnus fruticosa) in response to disease (Valsa melanodiscus) and water stress. New Phytologist 189: 295-307; doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03472.x

Schuur, E.A.G.. 2011. Nitrogen from the deep. Nature 477:xx

Schuur, E.A.G., B.W. Abbott, W.B. Bowden, V. Brovkin, P. Camill, J.P. Canadell, F.S. Chapin III, T.R. Christensen, J.P. Chanton, P. Ciais, P.M. Crill, B.T. Crosby, C.I. Czimczik, G. Grosse, D.J. Hayes, G. Hugelius, J.D. Jastrow, T. Kleinen, C.D, Koven, G. Krinner, P. Kuhry, D.M. Lawrence, S.M. Natali, C.L. Ping, A. Rinke,W.J. Riley, V.E. Romanovsky, A.B.K. Sannel, C. Schadel, K. Schaefer, Z.M. Subin, C. Tarnocai, M. Turetsky, K. M. Walter-Anthony, C.J. Wilson, and S.A. Zimov. 2011 High risk of permafrost thaw. Nature 480:32-33.

Seaton, CT, TF Paragi, RD Boertje, K Kielland, S DuBois, and CL Fleener. 2011 Browse biomass removal and nutritional condition of Alaska moose Alces alces. Wildlife Biology 17: 1-12. DOI: 10.2981/10-010

Shenoy, A, JF Johnstone, ES Kasischke, K Kielland. 2011 Persistent effects of fire severity on early successional forests in interior Alaska. Forest Ecology and Management 261:381-390

Spellman, BT, and TL Wurtz. 2011 Invasive sweetclover (Melilotus alba) impacts native seedling recruitment along floodplains of interior Alaska. Biological Invasions. DOI 10.1007/s10530-010-9931-4

Turetsky, MR, ES Kane, JW Harden, RD Ottmar, KL Manies, E Hoy, ES Kasischke. 2011 Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands. Nature Geoscience 4: 27-31, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1027

Verbyla, D.. 2011 Browning boreal forests of western North America. Environmental Research Letters 6:041003(3pp), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/041003

Wolken, JM, TN Hollingsworth, TS Rupp, FS Chapin III, SF Trainor, TM Barrett, PF Sullivan, AD McGuire, ES Euskirchen, PE Hennon, EA Beever, JS Conn, LK Crone, DV D'Amore, N Fresco, TA Hanley, K Kielland, JJ Kruse, T Patterson, EAG Schuur, DL Verbyla, J Yarie. 2011 Evidence and implications of recent and projected climate change in Alaska's forest ecosystems. Ecosphere 2(11):124. doi:10.1890/ES11-00288.1

Young, B., J. Liang, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2011. Effects of species and tree size diversity on recruitment in the Alaskan boreal forest: A geospatial approach. Forest Ecology and Management 262:1608-1617.


Books:

Chapin, FS, III, PA Matson, and PM Vitousek. 2011. Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology. 2nd edition. Springer, New York.


Book Chapters:

Anderson, M.D.. 2011. Two in the far north: the alder-Frankia symbiosis, with an Alaskan case study. Pages 138-166 in J.C. Polacco and C.D. Todd, editors. Ecological Aspects of Plant Nitrogen Metabolism. John Wiley & Sons.

Chapin, F.S., III and A.L. Lovecraft. 2011. Contextualizing Alaska’s climate change from global to local scales: The boreal forest, people, and wildfire. Pages 41-52 In A.L. Lovecraft and H. Eicken, editors. North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

Hayes, D.J., A.D. McGuire, D.W. Kicklighter, T.J. Burnside, and J.M. Melillo. 2011. The effects of land cover and land use change on the contemporary carbon balance of the arctic and boreal ecosystems of northern Eurasia. Chapter 6 in Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate (edited by G. Gutman and A. Reissell). Springer, New York, pp. 109-136, doi 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5.

Krankina, O.N., D. Pflugmacher, D. Hayes, A.D. McGuire, M. Hansen, T. Hame, V. Elsakov, and P. Nelson. 2011. Vegetation cover in the Eurasian Arctic: Distribution, monitoring, and role in carbon cycling. Chapter 5 in Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate (edited by G. Gutman and A. Reissell). Springer, New York, pp. 79-108, doi 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5.

Leigh, MB, K Katalenich, C Hardy, and P Kohler. 2011. Climate Change and Creative Expression. in North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems. H Eicken & A.L. Lovecraft (Eds.). University of Alaska Press.

Taylor DL, Houston S. 2011. Sequence bioinformatics for analyses of fungal biodiversity. Jin-Rong Xu and Burton H. Bluhm (eds.), Methods in Molecular Biology. 722: 141-155. Springer, Clifton, NJ.


Conference Proceedings:


Report:

Michalak, A.M., R.B. Jackson, G. Marland, C. Sabine, and the Carbon Cycle Science Working Group. 2011. A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admistration PMEL Contribution 3731. 69 pages.


Thesis and Dissertations:

Churchill, Amber. 2011. The response of plant community structure and productivity to changes in hydrology in Alaskan boreal peatlands. MS Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.

Parent, MB. 2011. Remote Sensing of Browning Trends in the Alaskan Boreal Forest, MS Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks.

Rebecca A Baird. 2011. Spatial and Temporal Trends in Vegetation Index in the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest, MS Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.


Bonanza Creek Research News and Highlights ARCHIVE

Nov 30, 2011 News
    Dr. Chapin referenced in recent article on climate change. (Also available through MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45494959/ns/us_news-environment/#.TtdkRlbp54c).
Presenter: Seth Borenstein
Title: Thawing permafrost 'speeding' up warming, experts warn

Nov 30, 2011
Get more information here.

Nov 30, 2011 News
    BNZ research referenced in recent article.
Presenter: Jeff Richardson
Title: New estimate boosts permafrost contribution to climate change

Nov 30, 2011
Get more information here.

Dec 15, 2011 Opportunity
    The Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks is pleased to offer a research assistantship to study interactions of permafrost, fire, and plant successional processes in altering boreal landscapes in Alaska. The research will focus on: (1) quantifying patterns and rates of change in ecosystems due to thermokarst through remote sensing and paleoecological studies; (2) evaluating the interaction of vegetation, permafrost soils, and fire through field surveys; and (3) assessing biogeochemical characteristics that are affecting the ecological responses. The research will be done in collaboration with ongoing interdisciplinary climate change impact research. The assistantship begins in January 2012 and covers full tuition, fees, and 12 month support for a four-year period through USGS funding. A Master’s degree in Ecology, Soil Science, or Geomorphology is preferred. We are looking for a highly motivated student with strong interests in permafrost dynamics and extensive fieldwork. Interested applicants are encouraged to send a letter and resume detailing interests and previous research experience to Knut Kielland (kkielland@alaska.edu) and Torre Jorgenson (ecoscience@alaska.net) by 15 December 2011.
Contact: Knut Kielland
Title: Ph.D. Opportunity in Permafrost Landscape Dynamics

Dec 15, 2011



Bonanza Creek Primary Research Sites

goldarrow Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest (BCEF), located approximately 20 km south of Fairbanks at 64.8 N, 148.0 W.

goldarrow Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (CPCRW), located at 65.16 N, 147.5 W, approximately 45 km north of Fairbanks.


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The Bonanza Creek LTER, including this website, is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards DEB-1026415, DEB-0620579, DEB-0423442, DEB-0080609, DEB-9810217, DEB-9211769, DEB-8702629 and by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station through agreement number RJVA-PNW-01-JV-11261952-231. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporting agencies or the program as a whole.

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