Wetland Fen & Bog Age Estimates for the Tanana Flats

The Tanana Flats (263,759 ha) are located south of Fairbanks, Alaska, within a lowland basin between the Alaska Range and the Tanana River. This product calculates estimates of lowland vegetation from the NLCD 2001, including young and old fen & bogs (500 x 500 m resolution) using estimates derived by Lara et al., 2016 and Jorgenson et al., 2001. Data are presented as % (divide values by 10,000, to get %).

Ofen = old fen, >100 years
Yfen = young fen, 100 years
Ybog = young bog, <100 years
Dec= deciduous forest
Con = coniferous forest
Shb= shurb scrub
DwSh= dwarf shrub
Water = waterbodies, includes lakes, rivers, ponds
Bar= barren, unvegetated saturated soil
Urb= urban, towns or roads

Datasets were synthesized using products and approaches developed by Homer et al., 2007 and Lara et al., 2016

Homer, C., Dewitz, J., Fry, J., Coan, M., Hossain, N., Larson, C., Herold, N., McKerrow, A., VanDriel, J.N., and Wickham, J. 2007. Completion of the 2001 National Land Cover Database for the Conterminous United States. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp 337-341.

Lara MJ, Genet H, McGuire AD, Euskirchen ES, Zhang Y, Brown D, Jorgenson MT, Romanovsky V, Breen A, Bolton WR. 2016. Thermokarst rates intensify due to climate change and forest fragmentation in an Alaskan boreal forest lowland. Global Change Biology. 22, 816–829, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13124.