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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Drury, Grissom
We conducted this investigation in response to criticisms that the current Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plans are allowing too much of the landscape in interior Alaska to burn annually. To address this issue, we analyzed fire history patterns within the Yukon Flats…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Denneler, Asselin, Bergeron, Bégin
The relative importance of fire and flooding on the population dynamics of eastern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) and black ash (Fraxinus nigra Marsh.) was evaluated in eight old-growth riparian stands of southwestern boreal Quebec, Canada. Rising water levels and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chuvieco, Giglio, Justice
There is interest in the global community on how fire regimes are changing as a function of changing demographics and climate. The ground-based data to monitor such trends in fire activity are inadequate at the global scale. Satellite observations provide a basis for such a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cheyette, Rupp, Rodman
Fire behavior modeling systems are playing an increasingly important role in identifying areas of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) that could support intense and fast-moving wildfires. The modeling systems also can be used to prioritize areas for fuels reduction treatments. We…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chapin, Trainor, Huntington, Lovecraft, Zavaleta, Natcher, McGuire, Nelson, Ray, Calef, Fresco, Huntington, Rupp, DeWilde, Naylor
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of 'wicked problems' for which there are no optimal solutions. In this article, we illustrate the wicked nature of such problems by describing the effects of global warming on the wildfire regime and indigenous…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef, McGuire, Chapin
Boreal ecosystems in Alaska are responding to climate change in many ways, including changes in the fire regime. While large-scale wildfires are an essential part of the boreal forest ecosystem, humans are changing fire regimes through ignition and suppression. The authors…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boggs, Sturdy, Rinella, Rinella
Between 1987 and 2000, a spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreak infested 1.19 million ha of spruce (Picea spp.) forests in Alaska, killing most of the large diameter trees. We evaluated whether these forests would recover to their pre-outbreak density, and determined…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly, Uto, Wilkes, Bothwell
We designed and developed an internet mapping application to collect data on the locations of forest landscape values across a 2.4 million hectare study area in the province of Alberta, Canada. Four communities in the study area were surveyed and 8053 point locations were mapped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Benscoter, Vitt
Peatland ground layer species composition is intricately tied to ecosystem function (for example, carbon storage). As the primary disturbance in boreal bogs, wildfire selectively removes the ground layer vegetation, creating heterogeneous habitat conditions and initiating…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boreal forest dynamics in north-eastern Sweden during the last 10,000 years based on pollen analysis
A pollen record obtained from a 2.2-m sediment succession deposited in a small lake in the province of Vasterbotten, north-eastern Sweden, reveals the presence of continuous forest cover since 8,500 calendar years before present (cal B.P.). Forest with abundant Pinus (pine) and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arroyo, Pascual, Manzanera
Understanding fire is essential to improving forest management strategies. More specifically, an accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of fuels is critical when analyzing, modeling and predicting fire behavior. First, we review the main concepts and terminology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cahill, Cahill, Perry
Aerosols from wildfires are the primary aerosols in the Arctic atmosphere during the summer months. These aerosols occur in large, increasing quantities and impact the sensitive radiative balance in the Arctic. FROSTFIRE, a controlled burn in a Long-Term Ecological Research Area…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brassard, Chen
Coarse woody debris (CWD) volume and diversity are vital attributes of forest ecosystems. However, despite their importance, their long-term dynamics associated with fire- or logging-origin and overstory type have not been examined in boreal forest. We hypothesize that (1) CWD…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bouldin
Aim: I detail several problems and solutions related to estimating pre-settlement forest density from land surveyors' bearing tree data. The data have a high value, so clarification of existing problems is needed in the development of a better theoretical framework in which to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Roy
The interannual variability of fire activity has been studied without an explicit investigation of a suitable starting month for yearly calculations. Sensitivity analysis of 37 months of global MODIS active fire detections indicates that a 1-month change in the start of the fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Broadfoot, Pierre
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Year: 1939
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bret-Harte, Mack, Goldsmith, Sloan, DeMarco, Shaver, Ray, Biesinger, Chapin
Plant communities in natural ecosystems are changing and species are being lost due to anthropogenic impacts including global warming and increasing nitrogen (N) deposition. We removed dominant species, combinations of species and entire functional types from Alaskan tussock…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knapp, Briggs, Collins, Archer, Bret-Harte, Ewers, Peters, Young, Shaver, Pendall, Cleary
Shrub encroachment into grass-dominated biomes is occurring globally due to a variety of anthropogenic activities, but the consequences for carbon (C) inputs, storage and cycling remain unclear. We studied eight North American graminoid-dominated ecosystems invaded by shrubs,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blackard, Finco, Helmer, Holden, Hoppus, Jacobs, Lister, Moisen, Nelson, Riemann, Ruefenacht, Salajanu, Weyermann, Winterberger, Brandeis, Czaplewski, McRoberts, Patterson, Tycio
Annotation: This paper presents a spatially explicit dataset of aboveground live forest biomass made from ground measured inventory plots for the conterminous U.S., Alaska and Puerto Rico. The plot data are from the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The Fire and Fire Surrogates (FFS) network is composed of 12 forest sites that span the continental United States, all of which historically had frequent low-severity fire. The goal of the FFS study was to assess the efficacy of three management treatments (prescribed fire,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenihan, Bachelet, Neilson, Drapek
A modeling experiment was designed to investigate the impact of fire management, CO2 emission rate, and the growth response to CO2 on the response of ecosystems in the conterminous United States to climate scenarios produced by three different General Circulation Models (GCMs)…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hsi, Kuo
Estimating solid residue gross burning rate and heating value burning in a power plant furnace is essential for adequate manipulation to achieve energy conversion optimization and plant performance. A model based on conservation equations of mass and thermal energy is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Cox, Beall, Brunjes, Pan, Kendall, Anderson, McMurry, Cobb, Smith
We evaluated the use of the gas exchange rate as an ecologically relevant indicator of chemical stress in avian embryos/eggs. Northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) were exposed to octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) via feed containing nominal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS