Environmental controls on soil CO2 flux following fire in black spruce, white spruce, and aspen stands of interior Alaska

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1525-1541

  O'Neill, Katherine P ^a,c   Kasischke, Eric S ^b,d   Richter, Daniel D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ERIM International   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; FIRES; FLUXES; MOISTURE; SOILS;

SEASONAL PATTERNS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WILDFIRE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; FIRE ECOLOGY; PLANT STAND STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE SINK RELATIONSHIP; TAIGA; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 2242455043     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x02-077     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Agriculture Canada Expert Committee on Soil Survey. 1987. The Canadian system of soil classification. Agric. Can. Publ. 1646.
2. Billings, S.A., Richter, D.D., and Yarie, J. 1998. Soil carbon dioxide fluxes and profile concentrations in two boreal forests. Can. J. For. Res. 28: 1773-1783.
3. Bonan, G.B. 1989. A computer model of the solar radiation, soil moisture, and soil thermal regimes in boreal forests. Ecol. Modell. 45: 275-306.
4. Bonan, G.B. 1992. Soil temperature as an ecological factor in boreal forests. In A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest. Edited by H.H. Shugart, T.R. Leemans, and G.B. Bonan. Cambridge University Press, New York. pp. 126-143.
5. Bonan, G.B., and Van Cleve, K. 1992. Soil temperature, nitrogen mineralization, and carbon source-sink relationships in boreal forests. Can. J. For. Res. 22: 629-639.
6. Brady, N.C., and Weil, R.R. 1996. The Nature and Properties of Soils. 11th Ed. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
7. Brown, R.J.E. 1983. Effects of fire on the permafrost ground thermal regime. In The Role of Fire in Northern Circumpolar Ecosystems. Edited by R.W. Wein and D.A. McLean. John Wiley & Sons, New York. pp. 97-110.
8. Bunnell, F.L., and Tait, D.E.N. 1974. Mathematical simulation models of decomposition processes. In Soil Organisms and Decomposition in Tundra. Edited by A.J. Holding, O.W. Heal, S.F. MacLean, Jr., and P.W. Flanagan. Tundra Biome Steering Committee, Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 207-226.
9. Bunnell, F.L., Tait, D.E.N., Flanagan, P.W., and Van Cleve, K. 1977. Microbial respiration and substrate weight loss. I. A general model of the influences of abiotic variables. Soil Biol. Biochem. 9: 33-40.
10. Burke, R.A., Zepp, R.G., Tarr, M.A., Miller, W.M., and Stocks, B.J. 1997. Effect of fire on soil-atmosphere exchange of methane and carbon dioxide in Canadian boreal forest sites. J. Geophys. Res. 102(D24): 29 289 - 29 300.
11. Burton, D.L., and Beauchamp, E.G. 1994. Profile nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide concentrations in a soil subject to freezing. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 58: 115-122.
12. Christensen, T.R., Jonasson, S., Michelsen, A., Calaghan, T.V., and Hastrom, M. 1998. Environmental control on soil respiration in the Eurasian and Greenlandic Arctic. J. Geophys. Res. 103: 29 015 - 29 021.
13. 2 profiles in the soil. Soil Sci. 113: 328-333.
14. Dixon, R.K., Brown, S., Houghton, R.A., Solomon, A.M., Trexler, M.C., and Wisniewski, J. 1994. Carbon pools and flux in global forest ecosystems. Science (Washington, D.C.), 263: 185-190.
15. Dyrness, C.T. 1982. Control of depth to permafrost and soil temperature by the forest floor in black spruce/feathermoss communities. USDA For. Serv. Res. Note PNW-396.
16. Dyrness, C.T., and Norum, R.A. 1983. The effects of experimental fires on black spruce forest soils in interior Alaska. Can. J. For. Res. 13: 879-893.
17. Dyrness, C.T., Viereck, L.A., and Van Cleve, K. 1986. Fire in taiga communities of interior Alaska. In Forest ecosystems in the Alaskan taiga. Edited by K. Van Cleve, F.S. Chapin, III, P.W. Flannigan, L.A. Viereck, and C.T. Dyrness. Ecol. Stud. 57. pp. 74-86.
18. Flanagan, P.W., and Bunnell, F.L. 1980. Microflora activity and decomposition. In An Arctic Ecosystem: The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska. Edited by J. Brown, P.C. Miller, L.L. Tieszen, and F.L. Bunnell. Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, Pa. pp. 291-334.
19. Flanagan, P.W., and Veum, A.K. 1974. Relationships between respiration, weight loss, temperature and moisture in organic residues on tundra. In Soil Organisms and Decomposition in the Tundra. Edited by A.J. Holding, O.W. Heal, S.F. MacLean, Jr., and P.W. Flannagan. Tundra Biome Steering Committee, Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 249-277.
20. French, N.H.F., Kasischke, E.S., Borgeau-Chavez, L.L., Harrell, P., and Christensen, N.L., Jr. 1996a. Monitoring variations in soil moisture on fire-disturbed sites in Alaska using ERS-1 SAR imagery. Int. J. Remote Sens. 17: 3037-3053.
21. French, N.H.F., Kasischke, E.S., Johnson, R.D., Borgeau-Chavez, L.L., Frick, A.L., and Ustin, S.L. 1996b. Using multi-sensor satellite data to monitor carbon flux in Alaskan boreal forests. In Biomass Burning and Climate Change, Vol. 2: Biomass Burning in South America, Southeast Asia, and Temperate and Boreal Ecosystems, and the Oil Fires of Kuwait. Edited by J.S. Levine. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. pp. 808-826.
22. Funk, D.W., Pullman, E.R., Peterson, K.M., Crill, P.M., and Billings, W.D. 1994. Influence of water table on carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane fluxes from taiga bog microcosms. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 8: 271-278.
23. 2 evolution following harvesting in white spruce forests of interior Alaska. Can. J. For. Res. 17: 304-310.
24. Gorham, E. 1991. Northern peatlands: Role in the carbon cycle and probable responses to climate warming. Ecol. Appl. 1: 182-195.
25. 2 exchange at the moss surface of a black spruce forest. Tree Physiol. 17: 537-542.
26. Goulden, M.L., Wofsy, S.C., Harden, J.W., Trumbore, S.E., Crill, P.M., Gower, S.T., Fries, T., Daube, B.C., Fan, S.M., Sutton, D.J., Bazzaz, A., and Munger, J.W. 1998. Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon to soil thaw. Science (Washington, D.C.), 279: 214-217.
27. Heal, O.W., and Block, W. 1987. Soil biological processes in the north and south. Ecol. Bull. 38. pp. 47-57.
28. 2 amount evolved from several soils. Jpn. J. Bot. 20: 153-188.
29. Kasischke, E.S. 2000. The role of boreal ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. In Fire, climate change, and carbon cycling in the North American boreal forest. Edited by E.S. Kasischke and B.J. Stocks. Ecol. Stud. 138. pp. 15-23.
30. Kasischke, E.S., French, N.H.F., Borgeau-Chavez, L.L., and Christensen, N.L., Jr. 1995. Estimating release of carbon from 1990 and 1991 forest fires in Alaska. J. Geophys. Res. 100: 2941-2951.
31. Kasischke, E.S., O'Neill, K.P., French, N.H.F., and Borgeau-Chavez, L.L. 2000. Controls on patterns of biomass burning in Alaskan boreal forests. In Fire, climate change, and carbon cycling in the North American boreal forest. Edited by E.S. Kasischke and B.J. Stocks. Ecol. Stud. 138. pp. 148-163.
32. Mackay, J.R. 1995. Active layer changes (1968-1993) following the forest-tundra fire near Inuvik, NWT, Canada. Arct. Alp. Res. 27: 323-326.
33. MacLean, D.A., Woodley, S.J., Weber, M.G., and Wein, R.W. 1983. Fire and nutrient cycling. In The role of fire in the northern circumpolar ecosystem. Edited by R.W. Wein and D.A. MacLean. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, U.K. SCOPE 18. pp. 11-132.
34. Marion, G.M., and Oechel, W.C. 1993. Mid- to late-Holocene carbon balance in Arctic Alaska and its implications for future global warming. Holocene, 3: 193-200.
35. 2 emissions along two moisture gradients in the Canadian boreal zone. J. Geophys. Res. 102(D4): 29 261 - 29 277.
36. National Weather Service, Alaska Region. 2000. Data available on line at http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmak.html [cited January 2000].
37. Norman, J.M., Kucharik, C.J., and Gower, S.T. 1996. A comparison of five methods for measuring soil surface carbon dioxide fluxes. In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of Agriculture and Forest Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, Mass. pp. 59-61.
38. O'Neill, K.P. 2000. Changes in Carbon Dynamics Following Wildfire in Soils of Interior Alaska. Ph.D. thesis, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
39. O'Neill, K.P., Kasischke, E.S., and Richter, D.D. 2003. Seasonal and decadal patterns of soil carbon uptake and emission along an age-sequence of burned black spruce stands in interior Alaska. J. Geophys. Res. In press.
40. Parkinson, K.J. 1981. An improved method for measuring soil respiration in the field. J. Appl. Ecol. 18: 221-228.
41. 2 effluxes in the field. J. Geophys. Res. 102: 28 779-28 784.
42. 2 efflux in a Canadian boreal forest. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32: 35-45.
43. Richter, D.D., O'Neill, K.P., and Kasischke, E.S. 2000. Stimulation of soil respiration in burned black spruce (Picea mariana L.) forest ecosystems: A hypothesis. In Fire, climate change, and carbon cycling in the North American boreal forest. Edited by E.S. Kasischke and B.J. Stocks. Ecol. Stud. 138. pp. 164-178.
44. Russell, C.A., and Voroney, R.P. 1998. Carbon dioxide efflux from the floor of a boreal aspen forest: Relationship to environmental variables and estimated C respired. Can. J. Soil Sci. 78: 301-310.
45. Savage, K., Moore, T.R., and Crill, P.M. 1997. Methane and carbon dioxide exchanges between the atmosphere and northern boreal forest soils. J. Geophys. Res. 102(D24): 29 279 - 29 288.
46. Schimel, J.P., and Clein, J.S. 1996. Microbial response to freeze-thaw cycles in tundra and taiga soils. Soil Biol. Biochem. 28: 1061-1066.
47. 2 evolution from soil, substrate temperature, and substrate moisture in four mature forest types in interior Alaska. Can. J. For. Res. 15: 97-106.
48. Schumacher, F.X., and Chapman, R.A. 1954. Sampling methods in forestry and range management. Duke Univ. Sch. For. Bull. 7.
49. Singh, J.S., and Gupta, S.R. 1977. Plant decomposition and soil respiration in terrestrial ecosystems. Bot. Rev. 43: 449-528.
50. Stocks, B.J., Fosberg, M.A., Wotton, M.B., Lynham, T.J., and Ryan, K.C. 2000. Climate change and forest fire activity in North American boreal forest. In Fire, climate change, and carbon cycling in the North American boreal forest. Edited by E.S. Kasischke and B.J. Stocks. Ecol. Stud. 138. pp. 368-377.
51. Swanson, D.K. 1996. Susceptibility of permafrost soils to deep thaw after forest fires in interior Alaska, U.S.A., and some ecologic implications. Arct. Alp. Res. 28: 217-227.
52. 2 flux from the soil of a deciduous forest. Can. J. For. Res. 26: 1142-1148.
53. Thompson, S.J., and Armstrong, C.F. 1987. Calibration of the Watermark model 200 soil moisture sensor. Appl. Eng. Agric. 3: 186-189.
54. Tryon, P.R., and Chapin, F.S., III. 1983. Temperature control over root growth and root biomass in taiga forest trees. Can. J. For. Res. 13: 827-833.
55. Viereck, L.A., and Dyrness, C.T. 1979. Ecological effects of the Wickersham Dome fire near Fairbanks, Alaska. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-90.
56. Viereck, L.A., Foote, M.J., Dyrness, C.T., Kane, D., and Siefert, R. 1979. Preliminary results of experimental fires in the black spruce type of interior Alaska. U.S. For. Serv. Res. Note PNW-322.
57. 2 fluxes in a boreal forest. J. Geophys. Res. 102(D24): 28 795 - 28 804.
58. Wotton, B.M., and Flannigan, M.D. 1993. Length of fire season in a changing planet. For. Chron. 69: 187-192.
59. Zhuang, Q., McGuire, A.D., O'Neill, K.P., Harden, J.W., Romanovsky, V.E., and Yarie, J. 2003. Modeling the soil thermal and carbon dynamics of a fire chronosequence in interior Alaska. J. Geophys. Res. In press.
60. Zimov, S.A., Semiletov, I.P., Daviodov, S.P., Voropaev, Y.V., Prosyannikov, S.F., Wong, C.S., and Chan, Y.H. 1993. Winter-time carbon dioxide emission from soils of northeastern Siberia. Arctic, 46: 197-204.