{"id":318,"date":"2018-05-20T02:21:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T06:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/mathclimate\/?p=318"},"modified":"2018-06-06T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:58:21","slug":"boat-ride-through-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/mathclimate\/2018\/05\/20\/boat-ride-through-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat Ride Through the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The abandoned ship we were supposed to ride. \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

On our first Thursday here, we had a boat ride through the Alaskan river.\u00a0 We had seen the primary succession and the secondary succession.\u00a0 The primary succession starts off when the ground is void of nutrients and minerals to start new vegetation.\u00a0 The fine silt is composed of deposit from the river.\u00a0 It has a high capacity of water, which has the consistency of slime.\u00a0 The side with the developed forest will have the nutrients and dirt stripped and into the water they go.\u00a0 As the glacier seasonally melts, the river will increase in size, which deposits the silt and other various minerals on to the other side of the river.\u00a0 This will help build another layer of silt for the plants to grow.<\/p>\n

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Primary Succession<\/p><\/div>\n

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Forest after Fire<\/p><\/div>\n

The little plants that grow on the silt are often cut short due to the winter snow and the snowshoe hares eating the tip of them.\u00a0 Over the next decade, the layers of silt will grow, and the plant will grow.<\/p>\n

First, the silt will gather enough nutrients and minerals to support vegetation.\u00a0 Shrubs and graminoids will start to form in the coming years.\u00a0 \u00a0Alder will then form with the abundance of nitrogen in the soil.\u00a0 Birch and white spruce will form after.\u00a0 Black spruce will take over the white spruce within a couple decades.\u00a0 Some black spruce will show qualities of white spruces.<\/p>\n

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The forest after 1.5 decades of silt depositation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The secondary\u00a0succession occurs after fire, or other natural events, that clears the existing forest.\u00a0 The forest will recover within a couple of decades, while the primary succession takes up to 150 years to grow.\u00a0 There are two weather stations set up next to each other to collect data, one belongs to Jamie and co. while the other belongs to the other scientists who wanted to collect data as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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