Site: Scotty Creek
Country: Canada
Site PI: Jennifer L. Baltzer
Data Type:
Availabilty: Approve
About Data: The 9.6-ha (120 x 800 m) Scotty Creek Forest Dynamics Plot (Scotty Creek FDP) is located in a boreal peatland forest approximately 50km south of Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada. 20.8ha (260 x 800 m) were sampled for large (>10cm diameter) trees and the lower half of the plot (120 x 800 m) was sampled for the full protocol. Fifteen 20 x 20m grid cells in the upper half have also been completely censused (to 1cm diameter) and are the focus of small scale nutrient addition experimentation. The first census was completed in 2014 at which point the Scotty Creek FDP joined the Smithsonian's Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) network. The second census will be carried out in 2019. Additional projects include studies on above and belowground net primary productivity (this includes the ForestGEO plot and the adjacent experimental grid cells), studies of forest-permafrost interactions, functional traits, understory community composition, and sap flux quantification. The plot is paired with an eddy covariance tower whose footprint includes part of the plot.