{"id":1650,"date":"2019-10-04T11:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1650"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:09:44","slug":"larger-more-frequent-fires-in-boreal-forest-threaten-previously-protected-carbon-stores-nau-led-research-team-reports-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/larger-more-frequent-fires-in-boreal-forest-threaten-previously-protected-carbon-stores-nau-led-research-team-reports-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Larger, more frequent fires in boreal forest threaten previously protected carbon stores, NAU-led research team reports in Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Warmer, drier conditions and more frequent fires are\ncontributing to the combustion of \u201clegacy carbon\u201d in the Northwest Territories,\nCanada, according to NAU ECOSS postdoctoral researcher&nbsp;<strong>Xanthe Walker<\/strong>,\nalong with NAU senior authors&nbsp;<strong>Michelle Mack<\/strong>&nbsp;(ECOSS),&nbsp;<strong>Ted\nSchurr<\/strong>&nbsp;(ECOSS) and GEODE lead&nbsp;<strong>Scott Goetz<\/strong>.&nbsp; These\npools of carbon have historically been protected by thick organic soils, but\nshorter fire return intervals are making this carbon newly vulnerable.&nbsp; As\nlegacy carbon continues to burn, concerns mount that boreal forests could shift\nfrom a carbon sink to a carbon source and thus contribute to the acceleration\nof climate warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more about this work in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nau.edu\/boreal-forest-carbon-sinks\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=8-23-19%20edition&amp;utm_campaign=NAUNews&amp;utm_term=internal&amp;utm_content=Boreal_fires_L#.XWPzTOhKiiM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NAU News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warmer, drier conditions and more frequent fires are contributing to the combustion of \u201clegacy carbon\u201d in the Northwest Territories, Canada, according to NAU ECOSS postdoctoral researcher&nbsp;Xanthe Walker, along with NAU senior authors&nbsp;Michelle Mack&nbsp;(ECOSS),&nbsp;Ted Schurr&nbsp;(ECOSS) and GEODE lead&nbsp;Scott Goetz.&nbsp; These pools of carbon have historically been protected by thick organic soils, but shorter fire return intervals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/larger-more-frequent-fires-in-boreal-forest-threaten-previously-protected-carbon-stores-nau-led-research-team-reports-in-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Larger, more frequent fires in boreal forest threaten previously protected carbon stores, NAU-led research team reports in Nature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"newstags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1650","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419.png",1024,1024,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-300x300.png",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-768x768.png",525,525,true],"large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419.png",525,525,false],"news_plugin_small":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-80x80.png",80,80,true],"team-500px":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-500x500.png",500,500,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419.png",1024,1024,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419.png",1024,1024,false],"twentyseventeen-featured-image":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419.png",1024,1024,false],"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-100x100.png",100,100,true],"photoswipe_thumbnails":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-300x300.png",300,300,true],"photoswipe_full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419.png",1024,1024,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzNews1_100419-272x182.png",272,182,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Warmer, drier conditions and more frequent fires are contributing to the combustion of \u201clegacy carbon\u201d in the Northwest Territories, Canada, according to NAU ECOSS postdoctoral researcher&nbsp;Xanthe Walker, along with NAU senior authors&nbsp;Michelle Mack&nbsp;(ECOSS),&nbsp;Ted Schurr&nbsp;(ECOSS) and GEODE lead&nbsp;Scott Goetz.&nbsp; These pools of carbon have historically been protected by thick organic soils, but shorter fire return intervals are making this carbon newly vulnerable.&nbsp; As legacy carbon continues to burn, concerns mount that boreal forests could shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source and thus contribute to the acceleration of climate warming. Read more about this work in&nbsp;NAU News.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Uncategorized","author_info_v2":{"name":"siccs-ecoinfo","url":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/author\/siccs-ecoinfo\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"newstags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstags?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}