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Carbon Balance and Management BioMed Central Research Open Access An estimate of carbon emissions from 2004 wildfires across Alaskan Yukon River Basin 1 2 2 1 Zhengxi Tan* , Larry L Tieszen , Zhiliang Zhu , Shuguang Liu and Stephen M Howard1 Address: 1SAIC, Contractor to USGS Center for EROS, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA and 2USGS Center for EROS, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA Email: Zhengxi Tan* - ztan@; Larry L Tieszen - tieszen@; Zhiliang Zhu - zhu@; Shuguang Liu - sliu@; Stephen M Howard - smhoward@ * Corresponding author Published: 19 December 2007 Received: 5 October 2007 Accepted: 19 December 2007 Carbon Balance and Management 2007, 2:12 doi:10.1186/1750-0680-2-12 This article is available from: /content/2/1/12 © 2007 Tan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Wildfires are an increasingly important component of the forces that drive the global carbon (C) cycle and climate change as progressive warming is expected in boreal areas. This study estimated C emissions from the wildfires across the Alaskan Yukon River Basin in 2004. We spatially related the firescars to land cover types and defined the C fractions of aboveground biomass and the ground layer (referring to the top 15 cm organic soil layer only in