• Network: Fluxnet-Canada
  
• Principal investigator: Nicholas Coops
  
• PI-affiliated institution: Oregon State University
  
• Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Mixed Forests
  
• Dominant plant functional type: Deciduous Needleleaf trees, Evergreen Broadleaf trees
  
• Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
  • Fire: Wildfire or managed burns
  • The Old Aspen (SOA) site was established by natural regeneration after a forest fire in 1919.
• Flux data collection:
  • Start date: April 1996
    
  • End date: Ongoing
    
• Flux methods:
  • Eddy covariance
• Optical data collection:
  • Start date: July 2000
    
  • End date: Ongoing
• Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method.
  
• Data scale: Stand
• Collection methods: Tower
  
• Types of data collected: PAR, PYR, Optical data
• Publications:
  • Hilker T, Hall FG, Coops NC, Lyapustin A, Wang Y, Nesic Z, Grant N, Black TA, Wulder MA, Kljun N, Hopkinson C. Remote sensing of photosynthetic light-use efficiency across two forested biomes: Spatial scaling. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2010 Dec 15;114(12):2863-74.
  • Hilker T, Gitelson A, Coops NC, Hall FG, Black TA. Tracking plant physiological properties from multi-angular tower-based remote sensing. Oecologia. 2011 Apr 1;165(4):865-76.
  • Hall FG, Hilker T, Coops NC. Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: I. Model formulation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2012 Jun 1;121:301-8.
  • Hilker T, Hall FG, Tucker CJ, Coops NC, Black TA, Nichol CJ, Sellers PJ, Barr A, Hollinger DY, Munger JW. Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: II Model implementation and validation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2012 Jun 1;121:287-300.

Flux data repository: ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/fluxnet/fluxnet_canada/data/SK-OldAspen/