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SK-Southern Old Black Spruce

Fluxnet Information
Site Name: SK-Southern Old Black Spruce
Description: The Old Black Spruce (SOBS) site is located on Canadian crown land and was established by natural regeneration after a forest fire in the 1870s.
Status: Active, core measurements presently being made
Country: Canada
Fluxnet Site Code: CA-Obs

Additional Information

Location

Location Information
Country: Canada
Coordinates:
(Lat, Long) 		53.9872, -105.1178

PI Info

Investigator Information
Investigator: T. (Andy) Black (Website)
andrew.black@ubc.ca

The University of British Columbia
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Rm. 135, 2357 Main Hall
Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z4
604-822-2730

Affiliations

Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name: Canadian Carbon Program (CCP)
Affiliation ID: fsmp_sa
Affiliation Site Page: http://www.fluxnet-canada.ca/visionneuse.php?page=components_fsmp_sa&setLang=en
Affiliation Name: BERMS
Affiliation Site Page: http://berms.ccrp.ec.gc.ca/Sites/e-sites.htm

Data

FLUXNET Determined Variables

Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevationmore info: 598m
IGBP Land Usemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
UMD Land Usemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
NPP Land Covermore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Vegetation
KGCCmore info: Dfc - Snow fully humid cool summer
LAI F/PAR Land Usemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
Investigator Provided Vegetation Typemore info: Mixed boreal forest, old Jack Pine
Plant Functional Typemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Trees

Repository

Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:1994-2011
BERMS: http://berms.ccrp.ec.gc.ca/e-datalinktoFCRN.htm
Canadian Carbon Program (CCP): http://fluxnet.ccrp.ec.gc.ca/e_about.htm

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Investigator Information
Investigator: T. (Andy) Black (Website)
andrew.black@ubc.ca

The University of British Columbia
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Rm. 135, 2357 Main Hall
Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z4
604-822-2730
Location Information
Country: Canada
Coordinates:
(Lat, Long) 		53.9872, -105.1178
Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name: Canadian Carbon Program (CCP)
Affiliation ID: fsmp_sa
Affiliation Site Page: http://www.fluxnet-canada.ca/visionneuse.php?page=components_fsmp_sa&setLang=en
Affiliation Name: BERMS
Affiliation Site Page: http://berms.ccrp.ec.gc.ca/Sites/e-sites.htm
Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevationmore info: 598m
IGBP Land Usemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
UMD Land Usemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
NPP Land Covermore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Vegetation
KGCCmore info: Dfc - Snow fully humid cool summer
LAI F/PAR Land Usemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
Investigator Provided Vegetation Typemore info: Mixed boreal forest, old Jack Pine
Plant Functional Typemore info: Evergreen Needleleaf Trees
Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:1994-2011
BERMS: http://berms.ccrp.ec.gc.ca/e-datalinktoFCRN.htm
Canadian Carbon Program (CCP): http://fluxnet.ccrp.ec.gc.ca/e_about.htm
Links to Additional Site Related Information
MODIS Visualization: http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/MODIS/GR_col5_1/siteselection.pl?now3=get_site_table_2&siteid=259
External Web Site: http://www.fluxnet-canada.ca/
FTP Data Access: ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/fluxnet/fluxnet_canada/data/SK-OldBlackSpruce/
BERMS Site: http://berms.ccrp.ec.gc.ca/Sites/e-sites.htm
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Site Related Bibliography

Bonan GB, Lawrence PJ, Oleson KW, Levis S, Jung M, Reichstein M, Lawrence DM, Swenson SC.  2011.  Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data. Journal of Geophysical Research. 116(G2)
Glenn EP, Nagler PL, HUETE ALFREDOR.  2010.  Vegetation Index Methods for Estimating Evapotranspiration by Remote Sensing. Surveys in Geophysics. 31(6):531-555.
Richardson AD, Andy Black T, Ciais P, Delbart N, Friedl MA, Gobron N, HOLLINGER DY, Kutsch WL, Longdoz B, LUYSSAERT S et al..  2010.  Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 365(1555):3227-3246.
SCHWALM CHRISTOPHERR, Williams CA, SCHAEFER KEVIN, ARNETH ALMUT, Bonal D, Buchmann N, Chen J, LAW BEVERLYE, LINDROTH ANDERS, LUYSSAERT SEBASTIAAN et al..  2010.  Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis. Global Change Biology. 16(2):657-670.
Khomik M, Arain AM, Liaw K-L, McCaughey HJ.  2009.  Debut of a flexible model for simulating soil respiration–soil temperature relationship: Gamma model. Journal of Geophysical Research. 114(G3)
LUYSSAERT S, Reichstein M, Schulze E-D, JANSSENS IA, Law BE, Papale D, Dragoni D, GOULDEN ML, Granier A, Kutsch WL et al..  2009.  Toward a consistency cross-check of eddy covariance flux–based and biometric estimates of ecosystem carbon balance. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 23(3)
Piao S, Ciais P, Friedlingstein P, Peylin P, Reichstein M, LUYSSAERT SEBASTIAAN, Margolis H, Fang J, Barr A, Chen A et al..  2008.  Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming. Nature. 451(7174):49-52.
KRISHNAN PRAVEENA, BLACK ANDREWT, BARR ALANG, Grant NJ, Gaumont-Guay D, Nesic Z.  2008.  Factors controlling the interannual variability in the carbon balance of a southern boreal black spruce forest. Journal of Geophysical Research. 113(D9)
YUAN FENGMING, Arain AM, BARR ALANG, BLACK ANDREWT, BOURQUE CHARLESP-A, COURSOLLE CAROLE, MARGOLIS HANKA, McCaughey HJ, Wofsy SC.  2008.  Modeling analysis of primary controls on net ecosystem productivity of seven boreal and temperate coniferous forests across a continental transect. Global Change Biology. 14(8):1765-1784.
BERGERON ONIL, MARGOLIS HANKA, BLACK ANDREWT, COURSOLLE CAROLE, Dunn AL, BARR ALANG, Wofsy SC.  2007.  Comparison of carbon dioxide fluxes over three boreal black spruce forests in Canada. Global Change Biology. 13(1):89-107.