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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bloom, Mallik
Post-fire nutrient flushes are an important precursor to secondary succession in fire-driven boreal forest. We studied the magnitude of changes in post-fire soil nutrient status across a chronosequence of ericaceous shrub-dominated boreal forest stands in eastern Newfoundland,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Neill, Richter, Kasischke
Boreal forests are highly susceptible to wildfire, and post-fire changes in soil temperature and moisture have the potential to transform large areas of the landscape from a net sink to a net source of carbon (C). Understanding the ecological controls that regulate these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Omi
Native plant recovery following wildfires is of great concern to managers because of the potential for increased water run-off and soil erosion associated with severely burned areas. Although postfire seeding with exotic grasses or cultivars of native grasses (seeded grasses)…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Page-Dumroese, Jurgensen
When sampling woody residue (WR) and organic matter (OM) present in forest floor, soil wood, and surface mineral soil (0-30 cm) in 14 mid- to late-successional stands across a wide variety of soil types and climatic regimes in the northwestern USA, we found that 44%-84% of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Takakai, Morishita, Hashidoko, Darung, Kuramochi, Dohong, Limin, Hatano
Nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from tropical peatland soils were measured at a grassland, three croplands, a natural forest, a burned forest and a regenerated forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Only croplands received fertilization (665-1278 kg N ha-1 year-1). Mean annual N2O…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boulanger, Sirois
In this study, postfire coarse woody debris (CWD) dynamics in northern Quebec, Canada, were assessed using a 29-year chronosequence. Postfire woody-debris storage, decomposition rates, and variation of nitrogen and carbon contents of black spruce CWD (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP)…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Pendleton, Pendleton
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keough, Blahna
Although numerous principles have been identified as being important for successfully integrating social and ecological factors in collaborative management, few authors have illustrated how these principles are used and why they are effective. On the basis of a review of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Turetsky
We used historic records from 1959-99 to explore fire regime characteristics at ecozone scales across the entire North American boreal region (NABR). Shifts in the NABR fire regime between the 1960s/70s and the 1980s/90s were characterized by a doubling of annual burned area and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kang, Kimball, Running
We used a terrestrial ecosystem process model, BIOME-BGC, to investigate historical climate change and fire disturbance effects on regional carbon and water budgets within a 357,500 km2 portion of the Canadian boreal forest. Historical patterns of increasing atmospheric CO2,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday
Insects, forest fires and adverse environmental conditions are impacting the boreal forests of northern Alaska. Dr Glenn Patrick Juday, Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, explains the implications of climate change for northern forests.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Chapin
Fire, which is the dominant disturbance in the boreal forest, creates substantial heterogeneity in soil burn severity at patch and landscape scales. We present results from five field experiments in Yukon Territory, Canada, and Alaska, USA that document the effects of soil burn…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kane, Valentine, Michaelson, Fox, Ping
Small changes in C cycling in boreal forests can change the sign of their C balance, so it is important to gain an understanding of the factors controlling small exports like water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) fluxes from the soils in these systems. To examine this, we…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Huot, Ibarzabal
Black-backed woodpeckers (Picoides arcticus) may depend on recently burned forest patches to maintain viable population levels. We wanted to determine how these habitats are colonized by this species and by which age classes. Data collected at the Observatoire d'oiseaux de…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Huntington, Trainor, Natcher, Huntington, DeWilde, Chapin
Community workshops are widely used tools for collaborative research on social-ecological resilience in indigenous communities. Although results have been reported in many publications, few have reflected explicitly on the workshop itself, and specifically on understanding what…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holt, McCune, Neitlich
We provide an index of successional status for arctic macrolichen communities based on a synthesis of literature reports. We amassed research from the past 50 years that studie lichen communities following disturbance, such as fire or grazing. Species scores were derived from…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Brubaker, Gavin, Higuera, Lynch, Rupp, Tinner
We synthesize recent results from lake-sediment studies of Holocene fire-climate vegetation interactions in Alaskan boreal ecosystems. At the millennial time scale, the most robust feature of these records is an increase in fire occurrence with the establishment of boreal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Walker, Chapin, Parson
The boreal forest is the second largest terrestrial biome, and the black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest type occupies a large extent of boreal North America. Black spruce communities occur in a variety of environmental conditions and are especially important in the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Manies, Turetsky, Neff
The influence of discontinuous permafrost on ground-fuel storage, combustion losses,and postfire soil climates was examined after a wildfire near Delta Junction, AK in July 1999. At this site, we sampled soils from a four-way site comparison of burning (burned and unburned) and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Greene, Gauthier, Noël, Rousseau, Bergeron
In North America, Eurasia, and Australia, salvage logging is increasingly being used to mitigate economic losses due to fire, although the effects of this type of intervention are still essentially unknown. In a field experiment in a large recent boreal forest fire in central…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goodman, Hungate
In Alaska, an outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) recently infested over one million hectares of spruce (Picea spp.) forest. As a result, land management agencies have applied different treatments to infested forests to minimize fire hazard and economic loss…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girardin, Bergeron, Tardif, Gauthier, Flannigan, Mudelsee
Six independent tree-ring reconstructions of summer drought were calibrated against instrumental fire data to develop a 229-year dendroclimatic-inferred record of fire activity (annual area burned and fire occurrence) on the Boreal Shield, Canada. As a means of validating the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Giglio, Van der Werf, Randerson, Collatz, Kasibhatla
We present a method for estimating monthly burned area globally at 1 degrees spatial resolution using Terra MODIS data and ancillary vegetation cover information. Using regression trees constructed for 14 different global regions, MODIS active fire observations were calibrated…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flint, Haynes
Managing forest disturbances can be complicated by diverse human community responses. Interviews and quantitative analysis of mail surveys were used to assess risk perceptions and community actions in response to forest disturbance by spruce bark beetles. Despite high risk…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flint
A recent outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) in forests on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska was met with substantial variation in response among people and communities situated within this changing landscape. Interviews and mail surveys administered to residents in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES