Accession Number:

AD1028991

Title:

Research Summary: Projecting Vegetation and Wildfire Response to Changing Climate and Fire Management in Interior Alaska

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,01 Mar 2011,01 Nov 2016

Corporate Author:

University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks United States

Personal Author(s):

• Breen,Amy
• Bennett,Alec
• Kurkowski,Tom
• Lindgren,Michael
• Schroder,Julien
• McGuire,A. D.
• Rupp,T. S.

Report Date:

2016-08-21

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

An extensive suite of empirical studies was completed with modeling to improve understanding of the mechanistic linkages among fire, vegetation, the soil organic layer SOL, and permafrost thaw across interior Alaska. The primary project objectives were to 1determine mechanistic links among fire, soils, permafrost, and vegetation succession in order to develop and test field-based ecosystem indicators that can be used to directly predict ecosystem vulnerability to state change, and 2 forecast landscape change in response to projected changes in climate, fire regime, and fire management.

Descriptors:

• ecosystems
• vegetation
• climate change
• carbon dioxide
• soils
• resource management
• greenhouse gases
• forests
• fire protection
• Alaska
• vulnerability

Subject Categories:

• Forestry

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE