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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fetcher, Beatty, Mullinax, Winkler
Wildfires have been though to increase primary productivity in tussock tundra as well as in other ecosystems. Wein and Bliss (1973) measured net aboveground primary production in four recently burned areas of tussock tundra in northern Canada and Alaska and compared it with…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dixon, Shipley, Briggs
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boertje
Food habits of the Denali (formerly McKinley) herd of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) were studied during 1978-80 in Denali National Park, Alaska, with emphasis on diets of adult females. Data from fecal analyses, field observations, and forage digestibilities…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud, Jakimchuk, Carruthers
The demography, movement and behaviour patterns of eight caribou populations (Kaminuriak, Nelchina, Central Arctic, Fortymile, Porcupine, British Columbia, Newfoundland, and Snowhetta) exposed to industrial activities or transportation corridors are reviewed. Behaviour patterns…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomass combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to over…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parker
The calculation of heat release rate by oxygen consumption is based on the assumption that all materials release approximately the same amount of heat per unit mass of oxygen consumed. This technique is now being employed to determine the heat release rate of materials in…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hyodo, Kusaka, Wardle, Nilsson
Background and Aim: Nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) isotopic signatures (δ15N and δ13C) serve as powerful tools for understanding temporal changes in ecosystem processes, but how these signatures change across boreal forest chronosequences is poorly understood. Methods: The δ15N,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shenoy, Kielland, Johnstone
Fire activity in the North American boreal region is projected to increase under a warming climate and trigger changes in vegetation composition. In black spruce forests of interior Alaska, fire severity impacts residual organic layer depth which is strongly linked to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McIver, Stephens, Agee, Barbour, Boerner, Edminster, Erickson, Farris, Fettig, Fiedler, Haase, Hart, Keeley, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, Moghaddas, Otrosina, Outcalt, Schwilk, Skinner, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Youngblood, Zack
The 12-site National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS) was a multivariate experiment that evaluated ecological consequences of alternative fuel-reduction treatments in seasonally dry forests of the US. Each site was a replicated experiment with a common design that compared an…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Polley, Briske, Morgan, Wolter, Bailey, Brown
The amplified “greenhouse effect” associated with increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases has increased atmospheric temperature by 1°C since industrialization (around 1750), and it is anticipated to cause an additional 2°C increase by mid-century. Increased biospheric…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar, Eberhardt, Andreu, Eagle, Swedin
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a software module that records wildland fuel characteristics and calculates potential fire behavior and hazard potentials based on input environmental variables. The FCCS 3.0 is housed within the Integrated Fuels Treatment…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santín, Doerr, Preston, Bryant
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) produced during vegetation fires represents one of the most degradation resistant organic carbon pools and has important implications for the global carbon cycle. Its long-term fate in the environment and the processes leading to its degradation are the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holden, Gutierrez, Treseder
Wildfires are a pervasive disturbance in boreal forests, and the frequency and intensity of boreal wildfires is expected to increase with climate warming. Boreal forests store a large fraction of global soil organic carbon (C), but relatively few studies have documented how…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A 2200-year record of permafrost dynamics and carbon cycling in a collapse-scar bog, Interior Alaska
Recent high-latitude warming is increasing the vulnerability of permafrost to thaw, which is amplified by local disturbances such as fire. However, the long-term ecological effects and carbon dynamics are not well understood. Here we present a 2200-year record of pollen, plant…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Attiwill, Binkley
In many parts of the world both the area and intensity of wild-land fires have increased alarmingly. Not only are fires increasing in number, but the nature of these fires is also changing. We see mega-fires of increasing size and intensity in many parts of the world including…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This report is a scientific assessment of the current condition and likely future condition of forest resources in the United States relative to climatic variability and change. It serves as the U.S. Forest Service forest sector technical report for the National Climate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES