Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest

U.S. LTER Network Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest Fairbanks, Alaska

Institutional affiliations: University of Alaska; Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

Principal biome/main communities: Taiga. Areas of boreal forest including permafrost-free uplands and permafrost-dominated north slopes and lowlands; floodplain seres.

Research topics: Successional processes associated with wildfire and floodplains; facilitative and competitive interactions among plant species throughout succession; plant-mediated changes in resource and energy availability for decomposers; herbivorous control of plant species composition; hydrologic regime and stream ecology.

Site Coordinates: 64.8, -148.0

Site Principal Investigators

F. Stuart "Terry" Chapin III Marilyn D. Walker

Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775
Phone:(907) 474-7922 (907) 474-6038
Fax: (907) 474-6967
fchapin@LTERnet.edu

Institute of Northern Forestry Cooperative Research Unit
School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management
P.O. Box 756780
University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK 99775-6780
Phone: 907-474-2424
Fax: 907-474-6251
mwalker@lter.uaf.edu

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F. Stuart "Terry" Chapin III	Marilyn D. Walker
Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska-Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 Phone:(907) 474-7922 (907) 474-6038 Fax: (907) 474-6967 fchapin@LTERnet.edu	Institute of Northern Forestry Cooperative Research Unit School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management P.O. Box 756780 University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK 99775-6780 Phone: 907-474-2424 Fax: 907-474-6251 mwalker@lter.uaf.edu