Pacific Northwest Research Station

ABOUT US

RESEARCH AREAS

The Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit is located within the Ecosystem Processes Program

Forest along Alaska coastline.

Core areas of study:

-Understand interactions between climate, disturbance, and ecosystems in central and northern Alaska.

- Develop conceptual and real models of multiple spatial and temporal scales of pattern in Alaska vegetation.

- Lead cooperative research at the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research site.

Research Programs
Detailed information about our research programs.

This team's 2008 Science Accomplishments

Interactive controls of herbivory and fluvial dynamics on landscape vegetation patterns on the Tanana River floodplain, interior Alaska, by Lem G. Butler, Knut Kielland, T. Scott Rupp, Thomas A. Hanley (PDF - 842 KB)