Principal Investigator:Osawa, Akira Licensed Year(s):20192018201620152013
2012
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Main objective of the field work is to collect data in jack pine and black spruce forests on annual movement of organic matter and carbon. Additional objective is to conduct a regional study of stand development and its relationship to environmental factors in a several-square-kilometer study area of mostly black spruce.
Five methods will be used. 1) Soil and air temperature will be measured...
Principal Investigator:Osawa, Akira Licensed Year(s):20172005200420032002
2001
Summary:
Northern forests are closely connected to the problem of global warming, because they are likely to be absorbing much of carbon dioxide that was dumped to the air by the humans in the world. the amount that these forests are absorbing, however is not clear. We will measure this amount of carbon fixation by the boreal forests with an ecological method in Wood Buffalo National Park. A new technique ...