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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mercer
Largely in response to the 2004 Alaska wildfire season, local fire managers have begun to install fuel treatments in mature black spruce forests around wildland-urban interface areas. The objectives of these fuel treatments are to reduce fuel load and to promote hardwoods. Local…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girod, Hurtt, Frolking, Aber, King
Fire risk and carbon storage are related environmental issues because fire reduction results in carbon storage through the buildup of woody vegetation, and stored carbon is a fuel for fires. The sustainability of the U.S. carbon sink and the extent of fire activity in the next…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Novozhilov, Stephenson, Overking, Landolt, Laursen
The moist chamber culture technique was used to investigate the assemblages of myxomycetes (plasmodial slime moulds or myxogastrids) associated with the microhabitats represented by the bark surface of living black spruce (Picea mariana) trees and forest floor leaf litter in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Natcher, Calef, Huntington, Trainor, Huntington, DeWilde, Rupp, Chapin
Although wildfire has been central to the ecological dynamics of Interior Alaska for 5000 yr, the role of humans in this dynamic is not well known. As a multidisciplinary research team, together with native community partners, we analyzed patterns of human-fire interaction in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Belleau, Bergeron, Leduc, Gauthier, Fall
It is now recognized that in the Canadian boreal forest, timber harvesting activities have replaced wildfires as the main stand-replacing disturbance. Differences in landscape patterns derived from these two sources of disturbance have, however, raised concerns that the way…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Jandt
From intro: 'The Arctic is currently exhibiting signs of rapid change which are especially pronounced in tussock tundra ecosystems. Factors known to be affecting these changes include wildfire, disturbance by caribou, global climate change and shrub expansion. These factors are…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roe, Robson, Robinson, Kuit, Frid, Daniel, Carr, Beukema, Bailey, Abraham
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a user-friendly, Windows-based computer tool which provides a state and transition landscape modelling framework for examining the role of various disturbance agents and management actions in vegetation change. It allows users…
Year: 2007
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gessler, Jain, Lannom, Robichaud, Ryan
We propose a rapid response project to collect fire behavior, fire effects, and fuels data from five 2003 active 2004 wildfires across the US. It is critical that field and remotely sensed data be collected soon (two weeks to the first growing season) after wildfires are burning…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
This project aims to use data from the 2004 fires in Alaska to link pre-fire vegetation composition and soil conditions with patterns of burn severity and post-fire stand rehabilitation. The primary objective is to examine how variations in burn severity can influence patterns…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Liljedahl, Hinzman, Busey, Yoshikawa
The Kougarok area, situated on the central Seward Peninsula, Alaska, experienced a severe fire in August 2002. This may be the only tundra fire where high-quality prefire (1999-2002) and postfire (2003-2006) active layer and meteorology measurements have been collected in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Brown
A century of wildfire suppression in the United States has led to increased fuel loading and large-scale ecological change across some of the nation's forests. Land management agencies have responded by increasing the use of prescribed fire and thinning. However, given the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Urquiza-Haas, Dolman, Peres
Aboveground biomass is a key variable in understanding the role of tropical forests in the global carbon cycle. The forests of the Yucatan Peninsula form part of the largest remaining tract of Mesoamerican forests, where the predominant land use is still slash-and-bum…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Conifer cover increase in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: frequency, rates, and spatial variation
Extensive fires in recent decades in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) garnered much attention for causing a significant decrease in the extent of conifer forest cover. Meanwhile, conifer forests in unburned parts of the GYE have continued to increase in extent and density…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers-Smith, McGuire, Harden, Chapin
[1] We measured CO2 and CH4 exchange from the center of a Sphagnum-dominated permafrost collapse, through an aquatic moat, and into a recently burned black spruce forest on the Tanana River floodplain in interior Alaska. In the anomalously dry growing season of 2004, both the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carroll, Blatner, Cohn, Morgan
In their classic article Allen and Gould (Allen, G.M., and E.M. Gould. 1986. Complexity, wickedness, and public forests. J. For. 84(4):20 -24) stated that the most daunting problems associated with public forest management had a ''wicked'' element: ''Wicked problems share…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garcia, Carignan, Lean
We compared the effects of natural and anthropogenic watershed disturbances on methyl mercury (MeHg) concentration in bulk zooplankton from boreal Shield lakes. MeHg in zooplankton was monitored for three years in nine lakes impacted by deforestation, in nine lakes impacted by…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson, Schoenau, Malhi, Gill
Wetland fringe areas in prairie agricultural landscapes may be subjected to burning of vegetation in autumn followed by cultivation in spring. The objective of this study was to examine the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O and CH4) emissions and plant nutrient (NO3, PO4 and SO4)…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirano, Segah, Harada, Limin, June, Hirata, Osaki
Tropical peatlands, which coexist with swamp forests, have accumulated vast amounts of carbon as soil organic matter. Since the 1970s, however, deforestation and drainage have progressed on an enormous scale. In addition, El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) drought and large…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Friedli, Radke, Payne, McRae, Lynham, Blake
We studied an upland boreal forest plot located in the Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, to measure the total mercury content in vegetation and organic soil with a view to assessing the potential for mercury release during forest fires. The study area consists…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smithwick, Harmon, Domingo
Short- and long-term patterns of net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB) for small, relatively uniform forest stands have been examined in detail, but the same is not true for landscapes, especially those with heterogeneous disturbance histories. In this paper, we explore the effect…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fiedler, Friederici, Petruncio
In this article, we discuss how to monitor the structural and functional attributes of old growth, as well as its associated plant communities and wildlife, both to determine the possible need for treatment and to assess post-treatment progress toward desired conditions.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Freeman, Stohlgren, Hunter, Omi, Martinson, Chong, Browns
Fire is a natural part of most forest ecosystems in the western United States, but its effects on nonnative plant invasion have only recently been studied. Also, forest managers are engaging in fuel reduction projects to lessen fire severity, often without considering potential…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ford, White
Prior to proceeding with large-scale fire reintroduction as a grassland management option, appropriate fire frequencies need to be determined. This research experimentally tested the effects of dormant-season fire on ground cover and on plant and soil nutrient cycling in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
See, Balasubramanian, Rianawati, Karthikeyan, Streets
An intensive field study was conducted in Sumatra, Indonesia, during a peat fire episode to investigate the physical and chemical characteristics of particulate emissions in peat smoke and to provide necessary data for source-receptor analyses. Ambient air sampling was carried…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Petrone, Hinzman, Shibata, Jones, Boone
Permafrost and fire are important regulators of hydrochemistry and landscape structure in the discontinuous permafrost region of interior Alaska. We examined the influence of permafrost and a prescribed burn on concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS