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Impacts Of Wildfire And Landscape Factors On Organic Soil Properties In Arctic Tussock Tundra, Jiaying He, Dong Chen, Liza K. Jenkins, Tatiana V. Loboda
Impacts Of Wildfire And Landscape Factors On Organic Soil Properties In Arctic Tussock Tundra, Jiaying He, Dong Chen, Liza K. Jenkins, Tatiana V. Loboda
Michigan Tech Publications
Tundra ecosystems contain some of the largest stores of soil organic carbon among all biomes worldwide. Wildfire, the primary disturbance agent in Arctic tundra, is likely to impact soil properties in ways that enable carbon release and modify ecosystem functioning more broadly through impacts on organic soils, based on evidence from a recent extreme Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF). However, comparatively little is known about the long-term impacts of typical tundra fires that are short-lived and transient. Here we quantitatively investigated how these transient tundra fires and other landscape factors affected organic soil properties, including soil organic layer (SOL) thickness, soil …