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 , as part of his study on hare mortality in the site southwest of Fairbanks.

Scientists have been studying the long-term consequences of changing climate and disturbance regimes in the �Ӱ�pron 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.