An estimate of carbon emissions from 2004 wildfires across Alaskan Yukon River Basin |
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Authors: | Zhengxi Tan Larry L Tieszen Zhiliang Zhu Shuguang Liu Stephen M Howard |
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Institution: | (1) SAIC, Contractor to USGS Center for EROS, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA;(2) USGS Center for EROS, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA |
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Abstract: | Background Wildfires are an increasingly important component of the forces that drive the global carbon (C) cycle and climate change
as progressive warming is expected in boreal areas. This study estimated C emissions from the wildfires across the Alaskan
Yukon River Basin in 2004. We spatially related the firescars to land cover types and defined the C fractions of aboveground
biomass and the ground layer (referring to the top 15 cm organic soil layer only in this paper) consumed in association with
land cover types, soil drainage classes, and the C stocks in the ground layer. |
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