Bonanza Creek climate change research site
September 18, 2011
A caged snowshoe hare waits to be tagged, weighed and released by Knut Kielland, associate
professor of ecology in the Institute of Arctic Biology, as part of his study on hare mortality in the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research site southwest of Fairbanks.Scientists have been studying the long-term consequences of changing climate and disturbance regimes in the Alaskan boreal forest at Bonanza Creek since 1987. The overall objective is to document the major controls over forest dynamics, biogeochemistry, disturbance and their interactions in the face of a changing climate. The site was established in Fairbanks as part of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research program.