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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garcia, Carignan
We measured total Hg and stable isotopes (d13C and d15N) in northern pike (Esox lucius) from 19 Boreal Shield lakes with undisturbed, logged, or burned watersheds. Average Hg level in standard 560-mm northern pike, on a dry weight basis, was significantly higher in logged lakes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kellomäki
A forest is a system, which intercepts solar energy under the control of climatic, weather and edaphic factors and the genetic properties of trees and other organisms occupying forest habitats. The interlinks among these organisms are dynamic, and this is the key to the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fraser, Li, Cihlar
Biomass burning releases significant amounts of trace gases and smoke aerosol into the atmosphere. This has an impact on the Earth's radiation budget, the magnitude of which has not yet been well quantified. Satellite remote sensing is well suited to assessing the area of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Everett, Trappe, Baumgartner
A science-based ecosystem management approach requires valid reference points to assess the long-term maintenance of forest systems. Historical range of variability (HRV) in vegetation patterns has served as the initial reference point and has support in the coarse-filter…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eugster, Vaganov, Rouse, Pielke, Chapin, Vidale, Chambers, McFadden, Baldocchi, Liston
This paper summarizes and analyses available data on the surface energy balance of Arctic tundra and boreal forest. The complex interactions between ecosystems and their surface energy balance are also examined, including climatically induced shifts in ecosystem type that might…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeLong, Kessler
Our study objective was to develop a better understanding of the ecological significance of unburned forest remnants in successional sub-boreal landscapes created by fire. We characterized remnant forest patches and compared them to matrix forest in young, mature and old age…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cater, Chapin
We used a combination of surveys of natural vegetation and seed-sowing and seedling transplant experiments to determine the relative importance of competition and microenvironmental modification as mechanisms by which understory vegetation influences the establishment of tree…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson
Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and climate change can alter these natural interactions. When disturbances exceed their natural range of variation, the change in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard, Krausman, Boe, Cunningham, Whitlaw
There is a paucity of data concerning the effects of wildfires on large carnivores. During summer 1988 a wildfire burned 845 km2 of taiga forest within the territory of two radiocollared Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) packs in northwest Alaska. We contrasted their use of areas that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard
Many effects of forest management on northern soil environments are characteristic of other latitudes, as well. Nutrient removals in harvested timber are substantial, and on some sites this may influence not only the amount but also the balance of remaining plant-available…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carignan, D'Arcy, Lamontagne
Water quality was monitored in Boreal Shield lakes for 3 years following their simultaneous impact by clearcut logging or wildfire. Seventeen similar undisturbed lakes served as references. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the light attenuation coefficient (PAR) were up to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cade-Menun, Berch, Preston, Lavkulich
When cedar-hemlock (CH) forests of northern Vancouver Island are clear-cut and replanted, growth of replanted trees is often poor. This growth check can be overcome with nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilization, suggesting that it may be because of deficiencies of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson, Moore
Carbon and peat accumulation rates over the past 1200 yr were measured in relation to permafrost aggradation, maturity, ground fires, and degradation in a peatland with discontinuous permafrost near Fort Simpson, N.W.T., Canada. The White River volcanic ash layer, deposited 1200…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Trumbore, Stocks, Hirsch, Gower, O'Neill, Kasischke
To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long-term averages for C exchange in boreal forests near Thompson, Manitoba. Soil drainage as defined by water table, moss cover, and permafrost dynamics, is the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cote, Brown, Paré, Fyles, Bauhus
In the boreal mixed forest, stand composition generally changes from deciduous to mixed to coniferous stands during post-disturbance succession. Our objective was to determine the influence of forest composition on the quality of soil nitrogen and carbon as determined by C and N…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barber, Juday, Finney
The extension of growing season at high northern latitudes seems increasingly clear from satellite observations of vegetation extent and duration. This extension is also thought to explain the observed increase in amplitude in seasonal variations in atmospheric CO2…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valentine, Boone
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Innes, Beniston, Verstraete
This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop held in Wengen, Switzerland, in September 1998. A number of state-of-the-art papers are presented, which discuss scientific, technological and socio-economic issues related to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES