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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Carpenter
Article summary (do not cite): Logging and drilling for oil and gas have accelerated in the boreal region and through vast swaths of forest and wetlands, girdling the planet through Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia. Global Forest Watch show that 40 percent of Canada's…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Pavlic, Chen, Latifovic, Fraser, Cihlar
Stand age distribution in boreal forests reflects past disturbances, which is a major determinant of the carbon strength (sink or source). We used mapped and dated fire scars as a reference and developed a remote sensing algorithm for mapping boreal forest stand age distribution…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilmking, Juday, Barber, Zald
Northern and high-latitude alpine treelines are generally thought to be limited by available warmth. Most studies of tree-growth/climate interaction at treeline as well as climate reconstructions using dendrochronology report positive growth response of treeline trees to warmer…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vesk, Westoby
A widely used classification of plant response to fire divides species into two groups, sprouters and non-sprouters. In contrast, regeneration responses to catastrophic windthrow and small gap disturbance are more often considered a continuum. We determined general patterns in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van der Wal, Brooker
1. Large herbivores have significant impacts on the structure and function of temperate and tropical ecosystems. Yet herbivore impacts on arctic systems, particularly the mechanisms by which they influence plant communities, are largely unknown. 2. High arctic vegetation,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Treseder, Mack, Cross
Fires are critical pathways of carbon loss from boreal forest soils, whereas microbial communities form equally critical controls over carbon accumulation between fires. We used a chronosequence in Alaska to test Read's hypothesis that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi should…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thornley, Cannell
Climate change is predicted to shorten the fire interval in boreal forests. Many studies have recorded positive effects of fire on forest growth over a few decades, but few have modeled the long-term effects of the loss of carbon and nitrogen to the atmosphere. We used a process…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Wotton, Alexander, Dalrymple
Fire spread and flame temperature were examined in a series of nine experimental crown fires conducted in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Detailed maps of fire front progression revealed areas with higher rates of spread in the order of tens of metres in horizontal dimension…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster, Krebs
A sensitivity analysis was conducted of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) to better understand the relationship between data input and model outcomes, as reflected by changes in C+NVC and MEL program options. Five input variables were selected for…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saint-Germain, Drapeau, Hébert
Several insect groups have adapted to fire cycles in boreal forests, and can efficiently use new habitats created by fire. Our study aimed at producing a first characterization of post-fire Coleoptera assemblages of black spruce forests of eastern North America. For two years,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt, Ottmar
Extensive measurements of smoke exposure among wildland firefighters are summarized, showing that firefighters can be exposed to significant levels of carbon monoxide and respiratory irritants, including formaldehyde, acrolein, and respirable particulate matter. Benzene was also…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Racine, Jandt, Meyers, Dennis
A 1977 tundra fire burned a hillslope where prefire soils and vegetation ranged from poorly drained moist tussock-shrub tundra on the lower slopes to well-drained dwarf shrub tundra on the back slope and very poorly drained wet sedge meadow on the flat crest. We sampled the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
The objectives of this reply are to: (1) clarify the scope and intent of the authors' original paper [See Canadian Journal of Forest Research (2002) 32, 1496-1501]; (2) respond to the issue of accuracy of concept; and (3) discuss its relevance to the broader issue of forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette, Boudreau, Morneau, Pitre
Barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds in North America may reach considerable size and undertake large-scale seasonal migrations from the Arctic tundra to the boreal forest. To test the caribou decline hypothesis associated with native harvesting and fire, we have…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Natcher
Through a process of participatory mapping, this research assessed the impacts of the 1984 change in Alaska fire policy from one of exclusion to one of management on native land use in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Findings suggest that while the change in policy has…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McWilliams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Howard, McWilliams
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides information on the Internet about the biology, ecology, and effects of fire on about 1,000 plant species, animal species, and vegetation types. FEIS summarizes the scientific literature regarding fire effects on most dominant…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Preisler, Grulke, Bytnerowicz
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kukavskaya, Ivanov
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krasnoshchekova, Bezkorovainaya
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku, Kaufman, Hao, Habib
The radiative energy emitted by large fires and the corresponding smoke aerosol loading are simultaneously measured from the MODIS sensor from both the Terra and Aqua satellites. Quantitative relationships between the rates of emission of fire radiative energy and smoke are…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Parsons, Rollins, Karau, Keyser
Biophysical settings describe site-specific physical and biotic conditions from which landscape composition, structure and function can be predicted, and represent a key starting point on the road to predicting fire regimes across landscapes. Previous efforts to map biophysical…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Drobyshev
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES