Ecosystem carbon emissions from 2015 forest fires in interior Alaska

Abstract Background In the summer of 2015, hundreds of wildfires burned across the state of Alaska, and consumed more than 1.6 million ha of boreal forest and wetlands in the Yukon–Koyukuk region. Mapping of 113 large wildfires using Landsat satellite images from before and after 2015 indicated that...

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Main Author: Christopher Potter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Carbon Balance and Management
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13021-017-0090-0