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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Carleton, Dunham
The feathermoss-dominated floor of coniferous boreal forests can experience midsummer drought. From ecophysiological studies, based on single shoots, it is unclear how the live moss carpet can survive such stress. External capillary wicking from the lowest, moist organic layers…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bertschi, Yokelson, Goode, Ward, Babbitt, Susott, Hao
We adopt a working definition of residual smoldering combustion (RSC) as biomass combustion that produces emissions that are not lofted by strong fire-induced convection. RSC emissions can be produced for up to several weeks after the passage of a flame front and they are mostly…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Benscoter, Wieder
Fire directly releases carbon (C) to the atmosphere through combustion of biomass. An estimated 1470 +/- 59 km^2 of peatland burns annually in boreal, western Canada, releasing 4.7 +/- 0.6 Tg C to the atmosphere via direct combustion. We quantified within-site variation in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Loftsgaarden, Bradshaw
Methods are presented for analyzing the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire activity as a means of evaluating the performance of fire danger rating systems. Percentile analysis is used to examine the data itself; logistic regression provides a means for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Belyea, Warner
We examined short-term (decadal) and long-term (millenial) processes of peat accumulation, and the links between them, in a Sphagnum bog in continental Canada. A previously published model of bog growth was fitted to age profiles of the oxic acrotelm (surface, <60 cm thick)…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Korhola, Virkanen, Tikkanen, Blom
1 The effects of catchment fire on lake Pieni Majaslampi are examined by means of geochemical, charcoal, pollen, and diatom analyses of surface sediments. Particular emphasis is paid to pH responses in this naturally acid, weakly buffered, small-catchment lake. 2 An increase of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knicker, Almendros, Gonzalez-Vila, Martin, Ludemann
Sructural changes in lignocellulosic biomass heated under conitions comparable to those encountered in several types of natural or planned burnings have been studied by solid-state 13C- and 15N-CPMAS NMR spectroscopy of 15N-MNR spectra of biomass subjected to severe heating…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Page-Dumroese, Jurgensen, Harvey
This chapter discusses the impact of fire on soil carbon (C) pools, recovery after fire, the effects of a fire suppression policy on soil C, methods to estimate C losses from fire, and the implications of fire management on soil C cycling and sequestration.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bachelet, Neilson, Hickler, Drapek, Lenihan, Sykes, Smith, Sitch, Thonicke
Simulations of potential vegetation distribution, natural fire frequency, carbon pools, and fluxes are presented for two DGVMs (Dynamic Global Vegetation Models) from the second phase of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project. Results link vegetation dynamics to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kurz, Apps, Comeau, Trofymow
The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS2) is a national-scale model of forest sector carbon (C) pools and fluxes. This model has been applied to conduct a retrospective analysis of the C budget of the forests of British Columbia for the period 1920- 1989.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
Some soils with permafrost thawed deeply and become drier after forest fires, while others changed little. Soils with permafrost on the coldest and wettest landscape positions (concave to plane, lower slope positions, and north-facing midslopes) usually failed to thaw deeply…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Bond-Lamberty, Gower
The objective of this study was to quantify carbon (C) distribution for boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands comprising a fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The experimental design included seven well-drained (dry) and seven poorly-drained (wet)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, Chen
The water chemistry of the euphotic zone in 12 lakes within burned and reference watersheds on Alberta's Boreal Plain was surveyed two years post-fire. Five burned and four reference lakes were located in the Boreal Foothills (mean elevation=1048 m) and three reference lakes…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mazurek, Laterza, Newman, Daum, Cofer, Levine, Winstead
In this study we examine the molecular organic constituents (C8 to C40 lipid compounds) collected as smoke particles from a Canadian boreal forest prescribed burn. Of special interest are (1) the molecular identity of polar organic aerosols, and (2) the amount of polar organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kambis, Levine
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kellomäki, Karjalainen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alsaati, Ditzler, Burapatana, Tanner
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Colman, Linn
In order to study the interactions between the important processes within a wildland fire, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the USDA Forest Service are continuing to develop the HIGRAD/FIRETEC wildfire behavior model. HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a coupled atmosphere/wildfire behavior…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS