Principal Investigator:Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L. Licensed Year(s):
2019
Summary:
The overall goal of the research is to improve understanding of the controls and impacts of a changing climate on the vulnerability and resiliency of boreal-taiga ecosystems to wildfire. This is being addressed through field sampling and process-based ecological and hydrological modeling of the 2014-2016 wildfires of southern NWT.
To conduct the proposed research, the research team will addres...
Principal Investigator:Sonnentag, Oliver Licensed Year(s):20222021201920182017201620152014
2013
Summary:
Through this project the research team will address the following objectives: What is the net effect of permafrost thawing-induced biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks to the climate system? How do these two types of feedback differ between the discontinuous and continuous permafrost zones? Is the reported decrease (increase) in net CO2 (CH4) exchange based on plot- (<1m2) and ecosystem-scale ...