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Wildfires Are Changing Forest Communities in Interior Alaska

By nsf on Oct 22, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Wildfires Are Changing Forest Communities in Interior Alaska

  As boreal forest wildfires increase in severity and frequency, new patterns of post-fire recovery are emerging. Research led by Jill Johnstone and colleagues at the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported Bonanza Creek Long-term Ecological Research site found that recent wildfires led to changes in tree species dominance that are persisting through post-fire succession in Alaska’s boreal forests. Boreal black […]

Fires, Floods and Satellite Views: Modeling the Boreal Forest’s Future

By Jessica Merzdorf | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Jul 26, 2018   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Fires, Floods and Satellite Views: Modeling the Boreal Forest’s Future

A new study shows that as those fires scorched a region of boreal forest the size of Maryland, they released half as much carbon back into the atmosphere as all the plants, shrubs and trees in Canada typically store in an entire year. The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth, and […]

Boreal Owls Perform by Daylight

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jun 29, 2018   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Boreal Owls Perform by Daylight

Just beneath the owl box, hung 20 feet up the stem of a balsam poplar, the backyard barbeque continued late into the evening. Despite the thwap of badminton birdies and the chirp of human voices, the boreal owl had work to do. With a vole in its talons, the hand-sized bird perched on a branch […]

Fire Breaks Down and Builds up Boreal Forest

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jun 10, 2016   The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Fire Breaks Down and Builds up Boreal Forest

I once wrote about how fire had ravaged more than 10 percent of Interior Alaska during two smoky summers. A wildlife biologist called me out for choosing an inadequate verb. Tom Paragi chooses words that are more positive when he looks at a burned forest. Paragi works with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]

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