The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 451 - 475 of 494
Zhu
In recent years, requirements for consistent and operational burn mapping, using remote sensing means, have been mostly designed to provide support to land management in the field. However, this has ignored a perhaps more appropriate area of application in assessment and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Kasischke, McRae, Conard, McGuire, Goldammer, Flannigan, Amiro, Sukhinin, Ivanova
Fire has been a natural and essential stand-renewing agent in boreal forests for millennia, and development of the boreal zone for industrial and recreational purposes has required the concurrent development of forest fire management programs that balance the protection of life…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soja, Stackhouse, Shugart
Boreal regions are particularly significant because these are the regions that are predicted to experience some of the largest temperature increases from climate change. Additionally, this is where the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon resides, which could be released with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pellerin, Lavoie
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hicke, Asner, Kasischke, French, Randerson, Collatz, Stocks, Tucker, Los, Field
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergner, Johnstone, Treseder
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Durall, Cairney
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amiro, MacPherson, Desjardins, Chen, Liu
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Omi, Martinson, Chong, Kalkhan, Stohlgren
Establishment and spread of invasive species following wildfires can pose threats to long-term native plant recovery. Disturbance severity and propagule pressure may influence the likelihood that invasives will establish in burned areas. In this study we examine the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen, Allen, Egerton-Warburton, Corkidi, Gomez-Pompa
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spencer, Gabel, Hauer
We documented immediate and mid-term (5 years) impacts on streams from a large (15,500 ha) wildfire in northwestern Montana. Fire-related impacts were ecosystem-wide, extending from water chemistry to fish. During the initial firestorm, phosphorus and nitrogen levels increased 5…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arocena, Opio
Pile and windrow burning of logging slash are important silvicultural practices in sub-boreal forests, yet, little is known about their effects on soil properties. We investigated the physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties of soils collected 2 years after prescribed…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kim, Tanaka
Flux measurements at sites of mixed hardwood and black spruce stands from an area (C4) of the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed (CPCRW), interior Alaska, in the summer seasons of 1998, 1999, and 2000 are used to estimate the fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O before and after…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaufman, Ichoku, Giglio, Korontzi, Chu, Hao, Li, Justice
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, launched on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra satellite at the end of 1999, was designed with 36 spectral channels for a wide array of land, ocean, and atmospheric investigations. MODIS has a…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Dale, Collins, Adams
The role of wildland fire in the winter habitat of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) has long been debated. Fire has been viewed as detrimental to caribou because it destroys the slow-growing climax forage lichens that caribou utilize in winter. Other researchers argued that caribou…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Chapin
Because species affect ecosystem functioning, understanding migration processes is a key component of predicting future ecosystem responses to climate change. This study provides evidence of range expansion under current climatic conditions of an indigenous species with strong…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku, Kaufman, Giglio, Li, Fraser, Jin, Park
Two fixed-threshold (CCRS and ESA) and three contextual (GIGLIO, IGBP, and MODIS) algorithms were used for fire detection with Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data acquired over Canada during the 1995 fire season. The CCRS algorithm was developed for the boreal…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Brockett
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Fukuda, Sandberg, Chapin, Dash
The FROSTFIRE research project conducted a prescribed burn of a 970 ha watershed in interior Alaska. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental burn of a watershed and the most thoroughly documented prescribed fire in history. Although extensive fire research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hicke, Asner, Kasischke, French, Randerson, Collatz, Stocks, Tucker, Los, Field
Fire is a major disturbance in the boreal forest, and has been shown to release significant amounts of carbon (C) to the atmosphere through combustion. However, less is known about the effects on ecosystems following fire, which include reduced productivity and changes in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Impact of forest conversion to agriculture on carbon and nitrogen mineralization in subarctic Alaska
Land-use change is likely to be a major component of global change at high latitudes, potentially causing significant alterations in soil C and N cycling. We addressed the biogeochemical impacts of land-use change in fully replicated black spruce forests and agricultural fields…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Schuster, Hesseln
Our study tested the hypothesis that a 24-hour pay system would help control the rising cost of fire suppression and improve firefighter safety. Under this system, emergency firefighting employees would receive their regular base pay 24 hours a day, regardless of the length of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
An approach is presented for approximating the expected spread rate of fires that burn across 2-dimensional landscapes with random fuel patterns. The method calculates a harmonic mean spread rate across a small 2-dimensional grid that allows the fire to move forward and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS