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Christopher Fastie
Telephone (primary): (802) 352-9028
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E-mail1 (primary): cfastie@middlebury.edu
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Department of Biology Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States
Official position at
address above:		 Bonanza Creek LTER Personnel
Educational Institutions
attended:		 PhD University of Alaska
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Study Areas

Core Areas: Disturbance
Categories: Climate
Disturbance
Stand Structure
Succession
Vegetation
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Datasets

  • Estimates of White Spruce density at two elevations from 1600-present
  • Population dynamics across latitudes of black spruce at its northern limit in the Brooks Range, Alaska
  • Recruitment of black and white spruce in the Brooks Range, Alaska
  • Soil Ph at black spruce sites at its northern limit in the Brooks Range, Alaska
  • Standardized ring-width chronologies for white and black spruce at three sites in the southern Brooks Range, Alaska
  • Tree densities of black and white spruce in the Brooks Range, Alaska
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    Publications (11)

    Journal Articles:

    Lloyd, A.H. and C. L. Fastie. 2002 Spatial and temporal variability in the growth and climate response of treeline trees in Alaska. Climatic Change 52:481-509.

    Fastie, C.L., A.H. Lloyd and P. Doak. 2003 Fire history and postfire forest development in an upland watershed of interior Alaska. Journal Of Geophysical Research 108(D1):8150. doi:10.1029/2001JD000570.

    Lloyd, A. H. and C. L. Fastie. 2003 Recent changes in treeline forest distribution and structure in interior Alaska. Ecoscience 10:176-185.

    Lloyd, A.H., K. Yoshikawa, C.L. Fastie, L. Hinzman, and M. Fraver. 2003 Effects of permafrost degradation on woody vegetation at arctic treeline on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 14:93-102. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.446.

    Lloyd, A.H., T.S. Rupp, C.L. Fastie and A.M. Starfield. 2003 Patterns and dynamics of treeline advance on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D2):8161. 10.1029/2001JD000852.

    Hinzman, L., N. Bettez, W.R. Bolton, F.S. Chapin III, M. Dyurgerov, C. Fastie, B. Griffith, R.D. Hollister, A. Hope, H.P. Huntington, A. Jensen, G.J. Jia, T. Jorgenson, D.L. Kane, D.R. Klein, G. Kofinas, A. Lynch, A. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, F. Nelson, W.C. Oechel, T. Osterkamp, C. Racine, V. Romanovsky, R. Stone, D. Stow, M. Sturm, C.E. Tweedie, G. Vourlitis, M. Walker, D. Walker, P.J. Webber, J. Welker, K. Winker, and K. Yoshikawa. 2005 Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions. Climatic Change 72(3)251-298

    Lloyd, A.H., A.E. Wilson, C. L. Fastie, R. M. Landis. 2005 Population dynamics of black and white spruce in the southern Brooks Range, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35(9):2073-2081.

    Lloyd, A.H., C.L. Fastie, and H. Eisen. 2007 Fire and substrate interact to control the northern range limit of black spruce (Picea mariana) in Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2007.

    Milner, Alexander M.; Fastie, Christopher L.; Chapin, F. Stuart; Engstrom, Daniel R.; Sharman, Lewis C. 2007 Interactions and Linkages among Ecosystems during Landscape Evolution. BioScience, Volume 57, Number 3, March 2007, pp. 237-247(11)


    Books:


    Book Chapters:

    Chapin, F.S., III, L.A. Viereck, P. Adams, K. Van Cleve, C.L. Fastie, R.A. Ott, D. Mann, and J.F. Johnstone. 2006. Successional processes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 100-120 In F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D.L. Verbyla (Eds.) Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.


    Conference Proceedings:


    Report:

    Fastie, C.L. and D.H. Mann. 1994. A preliminary fire history for the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Alaska. Unpublished report. 16p.


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    The Bonanza Creek LTER, including this website, is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards DEB-0620579, DEB-0423442, DEB-0080609, DEB-9810217, DEB-9211769, DEB-8702629 and by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station through agreement number RJVA-PNW-01-JV-11261952-231. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporting agencies or the program as a whole.

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