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Persistent Identifier
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hdl:10864/10770 |
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Publication Date
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2014-08-21 |
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Title
| Turkey Point Flux Station 1989 Forest (TP2) |
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Subtitle
| Meteorological and flux data from the TP89 forest. |
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Author
| Arain, M. Altaf (McMaster University) |
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Point of Contact
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Arain, M. Altaf (McMaster University) |
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Description
| The ON-TP89 site, also known as the CA-TP2 on Global Fluxnet and ON-WPP89 in some of the Fluxnet-Canada Research Network (FCRN)/Canadian Carbon Program (CCP) publications.
ON-TP89 is a young planted white pine (Pinus strobusL.) forest of the Turkey Point Flux Station. It was planted in 1989 (ON-TP89) on a former agricultural land. Meteorological and flux data collection was started in summer 1989. The data documented here includes carbon, water and energy fluxes and meteorological and soil measurements.
A unique aspect of Turkey Point Flux Station is its geographic location between the boreal and the broadleaf deciduous forest transition zone. It provides an excellent opportunity to investigate and quantify the strength of the carbon sink or source for planted temperate conifer forests, and its sensitivity to seasonal and annual climate variability. Also white pine is an important species in the North American landscape, because of its ability to adapt to dry enviro nments. It grows efficiently on nutrient poor, dry, sandy soils. Generally, it is the first woody species to flourish after a disturbance such as fire or clearing and over longer time periods helps more native forest species to establish through succession. White pine trees can live for about 350–400 years and their height may reach up to 45–60 m. These characteristics make white pine a preferred plantation (afforestation) species in eastern North America.
Fluxes, meteorological and soil measurement conducted at this site help us to explore carbon sequestration potential of chronosequence of planted or afforested white pine stands in southern Ontario. The main objectives are (i) to make year-round measurements of energy, water vapour and carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes and other meteorological variables over mature, middle-aged, young and seedling white pine plantation forests (established in 1939, 1974, 1989 and 2002) (ii) to relate gross ph otosynthesis and respiration of this stand to environmental factors (iii) determine the effects of seasonal and inter-annual climate variability on net ecosystem productivity, and to better understand the processes of production, storage and transport of soil CO2 and (iv) use these data to further improve process-based photosynthesis and respiration models. |
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Subject
| Earth and Environmental Sciences |
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Related Publication
| Peichl M., Brodeur J.J., Khomik M., Arain M.A., 2010a. Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of carbon fluxes in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,150:952-965, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.03.002 doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.03.002 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192310000900 |
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Deposit Date
| 2014-08-12 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 2002 ; End Date: 2013 |
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Related Dataset
| Coursolle, C.; Margolis, H.A.; Giasson, M.-A.; Bernier, P.-Y.; Amiro, B.D.; Arain, M.A.; Barr, A.G.; Black, T.A.; Goulden, M.L.; McCaughey, J.H.; Chen, J.M.; Dunn, A.L.; Grant, R.F.; Lafleur, P.M. 2012. Influence of stand age on the magnitude and seasonality of carbon fluxes in Canadian forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 165:136-148.; Huang S., Arain M.A., Arora V.K., Brodeur J.J, Peichl M., 2011. Analysis of nitrogen controls on carbon and water exchanges in a conifer forest using the CLASS-CTEMN+ model. Ecological Modelling, 222: 3743– 3760. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.09.008.; Khomik M., Arain M.A., Brodeur J.J., Peichl M., Restrepo-Coupé N., McLaren J.D., 2010. Relative contribution of soil, foliar and woody tissue respiration to total ecosystem respiration in four pine forests of different ages. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 115, G03024, doi:10.1029/2009JG001089.; Peichl M., Arain M.A., Brodeur J.J., 2010b. Age effects on carbon fluxes in temperate pine forests. Agricultural and Forest; Peichl M., Arain M.A., Ullah S., Moore T., 2010. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide exchanges in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests. Global Change Biology 16: 2198–2212, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02066.x; Peichl, M., Moore, T., Arain, M.A., Dalva, M., Brodkey, D., and J. McLaren, 2007. Concentrations and fluxes of dissolved organic carbon in an age-sequence of white pine forests in southern Ontario, Canada. Biogeochemistry, 86: 1–17. doi:10.1007/s10533-007-9138-7.; Peichl M., and Arain M.A., 2007. Allometry and partitioning of above- and belowground tree biomass in an age-sequence of white pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 253: 68–80. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.07.003.; Peichl M., and Arain, M.A., 2006. Above- and belowground ecosystem biomass and carbon pools in an age-sequence of temperate pine plantation forests Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 140: 51-63. |
