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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Feller
'Two studies were undertaken. An initial study in 1974 produced results that indicated significant losses of nitrogen and some other elements. The study was repeated 1981 as a check on the results of the 1974 burn, and to provide an assessment of the methods used in the first…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dyrness, Norum
Seven units (about 2 ha each) of black spruce - feather moss forest were experimentally burned over a range of fuel moisture conditions during the summer of 1978. Surface woody fuels were sparse and the principal carrier fuel was the forest floor (largely mosses and their…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Connel, Menage
Rates of weight loss and release of N, P, K, S, Ca, Mg, Na, and Cl from litter of several species in jarrah (E. marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest were measured in relation to site fire history and soil type. Weight loss from leaf litter decreased in the order jarrah > marri (E.…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
2014 is an EPA National Emission Inventory (NEI) Year. The NEI is a national inventory of air pollutants, emitted from all sources. EPA compiles a NEI every three years from information submitted by State/Local/Tribal (SLT) agencies. Prescribed fire, wildfire and crop residue…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nagano, Iwata, Harazono
In this study, we focus on clarifying the contribution of wildfire on N dry deposition in a boreal forest of interior Alaska, by applying CASTNET data and multiple regression analysis against climate data. Here we set two working hypothesis: 1) Long-range transportation, rain…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Hollingsworth
Fires in the tundra can drastically alter vegetation and ecosystem characteristics. Drs. Hollingsworth and Breen (from the U.S. Forest Service and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, respectively) review the effects of climate on fire regime and wildfire in Alaska. They compare fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Bioenergy production from forest biomass offers a solution to reduce wildfire hazard fuel levels, decrease insect and disease outbreaks, and reduce the incidence of invasive species while producing a useful…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Auclair
Unique aspects of fire in lichen tundra and forest-tundra were enumerated. The very high inherent fire susceptibility is related to the presence of lichens and shrubs. Lichens are predisposed to burning by virtue of continuous distribution on the soil surface, high surface-…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Artsybashev
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewandrowski, Kim, Aillery
Economic studies have demonstrated that agricultural landowners could mitigate significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through afforestation. The associated carbon, however, must remain stored in soils or biomass for several decades to achieve substantial…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ueyama, Ichii, Iwata, Euskirchen, Zona, Rocha, Harazono, Iwama, Nakai, Oechel
Warming in northern high latitudes has changed the energy balance between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study evaluated changes in regional surface energy exchange in Alaska from 2000 to 2011 when substantial declines in spring snow cover due to spring warming…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Girardin, Guo, De Jong, Kinnard, Bernier, Raulier
The 20th century was a pivotal period at high northern latitudes as it marked the onset of rapid climatic warming brought on by major anthropogenic changes in global atmospheric composition. In parallel, Arctic sea ice extent has been decreasing over the period of available…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seedre, Taylor, Brassard, Chen, Jogiste
Corresponding with the increasing global resource demand, harvesting now affects millions of hectares of boreal forest each year, and yet our understanding of harvesting impacts on boreal carbon (C) dynamics relative to wildfire remains unclear. We provide a direct comparison of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oris, Asselin, Ali, Finsinger, Bergeron
Forest fires are an important disturbance in the boreal forest. They are influenced by climate, weather, topography, vegetation, surface deposits and human activities. In return, forest fires affect the climate through emission of gases and aerosols, and changes in surface…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Natali, Schuur, Webb, Hicks Pries, Crummer
A large pool of organic carbon (C) has been accumulating in the Arctic for thousands of years because cold and waterlogged conditions have protected soil organic material from microbial decomposition. As the climate warms, this vast and frozen C pool is at risk of being thawed,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMahon
Forest fires can be divided into two broad classes-wildfires and prescribed fires. Wildfires, whether caused by nature (lightning, etc.) or by the accidental or malicious acts of man, are not planned by forest managers and do not occur under controlled conditions. They can be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS