Decay of nonequilibrium longitudinal optical (LO) phonons is investigated at room temperature in two-dimensional electron gas channels confined in nearly lattice-matched InAlN/AlN/GaN structures. A nonmonotonous dependence of the LO-phonon lifetime on the supplied electric power is reported for the first time and explained in terms of plasmon-LO-phonon resonance tuned by applied bias at a fixed sheet density (8 x 10(12) cm(-2)) The shortest lifetime of 30 +/- 15 fs. is found at the power of 20 +/- 10 nW/electron. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3261748]