{"id":864,"date":"2013-10-04T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.clas.ufl.edu\/macklab\/?p=864"},"modified":"2013-10-04T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T13:50:19","slug":"field-season-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Field Season 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Field Season 2014 has come to an end. It was a busy but successful summer in Alaska for the Mack Lab.<\/p>\n<p>In our stands of black spruce and Alaska paper birch, we continued to monitor soil temperature, leaf litter inputs, soil N and P pools, and rates of litter decomposition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/macklab-p\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3668.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-882\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/macklab-p\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3668-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Litter trap in a birch stand at Murphy Dome\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3668-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3668-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Litter trap and moss transplant in a birch stand at Murphy Dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We sampled forested areas that have been thinned to provide a shaded fuel break in the event of a wildfire. This information will be used with data collected in 2012 to quantify the impacts of forest management on carbon cycling, permafrost thaw, and plant succession post-management.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-884\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/macklab-p\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-884\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/macklab-p\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3620-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"April sampling soils at a managed site\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3620-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3620-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">April sampling soils at a managed site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We installed soil temperature sensors in the soil profile to a depth of 1.5 m in areas recently burned and adjacent controls to quantify changes in permafrost following wildfire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-881\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/macklab-p\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3377.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-881\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/macklab-p\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3377-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Camilo and April installing a temperature probe\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3377-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN3377-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camilo and April installing a temperature probe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simon McClung also harvested 10 year old tree seedlings from several sites in Interior Alaska to measure biomass and nutrient allocation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field Season 2014 has come to an end. It was a busy but successful summer in Alaska for the Mack Lab. In our stands of black spruce and Alaska paper birch, we continued to monitor soil temperature, leaf litter inputs, soil N and P pools, and rates of litter decomposition. &nbsp; We sampled forested areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macklab.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}