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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Andersen, Reutebuch, McGaughey
Accurate digital terrain models (DTMs) are necessary for a variety of forest resource management applications, including watershed management, timber harvest planning, and fire management. Traditional methods for acquiring topographic data typically rely on aerial photogrammetry…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Orchansky, Barr, Black, Chambers, Chapin, Goulden, Litvak, Liu, McCaughey, McMillan, Randerson
Fire in the boreal forest renews forest stands and changes the ecosystem properties. The successional stage of the vegetation determines the radiative budget, energy balance partitioning, evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide flux. Here, we synthesize energy balance measurements…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, MacPherson, Desjardins, Chen, Liu
Recent CO2 flux measurements from towers and aircraft (net ecosystem exchange by eddy covariance) and remote sensing/modeling (net primary productivity - NPP) following fire show that the regenerating boreal forest in western Canada has a low initial flux that increases with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Chen
The mapping of Canadian fires is a large effort supported by provincial, territorial, and federal agencies. Remote sensing techniques can aid in mapping, especially in remote areas and during busy fire seasons. The SPOT-VEGETATION (SPOT-VGT) sensor has previously shown promise…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Amiro, Flannigan, Stocks, Wotton
A recent analysis indicates that Canadian forest fires have released an average of 27 Mt (1012 g) of carbon annually over the past four decades (Amiro et al. 2001a). These emissions are caused by direct combustion. About an equal additional amount of carbon may also be lost…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro
Disturbances by fire and harvesting were thought to regulate the carbon balance of the Canadian boreal forest over scales of several decades. However, there are few direct measurements of carbon fluxes following disturbances to provide data needed to refine mathematical models.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Chen, Liu
Recent modelling results indicate that forest fires and other disturbances determine the magnitude of the Canadian forest carbon balance. The regeneration of post-fire vegetation is key to the recovery of net primary productivity (NPP) following fire. The study geographically co…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We extend existing stand-level models of forest landowner behavior in the presence of fire risk to include the level and timing of fuel management activities. These activities reduce losses if a stand ignites. Based on simulations, we find the standard result that fire risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value of three types of information about fire risk to a nonindustrial forest landowner: the relationship between fire arrival rates and stand age, the magnitude of fire arrival rates, and the efficacy of fuel reduction treatment. Our model incorporates planting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value to a non-industrial forest landowner of information about the magnitude of fire arrival rates. A simulation based on a model from Amacher et al. [Amacher, G., Malik, A., Haight, R., in press. Not getting burned: the importance of fire prevention in forest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alo, Wang
A number of previous modeling studies have assessed the implications of projected CO2-induced climate change for future terrestrial ecosystems. However, although current understanding of possible long-term response of vegetation to elevated CO2 and CO2-induced climate change in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alm, Tolonen, Vasander
The feasibility of using dendrochronology to obtain accumulation rates for recently accumulated peat was examined. Two charcoal layers originating from two forest fires were found at between 7 and 58 cm in the peat of Lakkasuo mire, Finland. Dendrochronology and the fire scars…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Meyer
Downy brome, an obligately selfing winter annual, has invaded a variety of habitats in western North America. Seeds are at least conditionally dormant at dispersal in early summer and lose dormancy through dry after-ripening. In the field, patterns of germination response at…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Wesser, Markon, Winterberger
From 1989 to 2003, a widespread outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) in the Copper River Basin, Alaska, infested over 275,000 ha of forests in the region. During 1997 and 1998, we measured forest vegetation structure and composition on one hundred and thirty-six…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, WeiPing
Methyl mercury (MeHg) concentrations in macroinvertebrates and fish were compared among five lakes in burned catchments and five reference lakes on the western Canadian Boreal Plain to determine the influence of forest fire on MeHg bioaccumulation. Two years after fire, MeHg…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, Chen
The water chemistry of the euphotic zone in 12 lakes within burned and reference watersheds on Alberta's Boreal Plain was surveyed two years post-fire. Five burned and four reference lakes were located in the Boreal Foothills (mean elevation=1048 m) and three reference lakes…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig, Bair
Forest environmental conditions are affected by climate change, but investments in forest environmental quality can be used as part of the climate change mitigation strategy. A key question involving the potential use of forests to store more carbon as part of climate change…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
Case studies done in one country can be applied to another, if fuel type characteristics are relevant, by interpreting burning conditions through the other country's fire danger rating system. This special issue of Fire Management Today constitutes the second installment of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
In an effort to unbury the past and to increase both institutional memory and organizational learning within the wildland fire community, the authors approached the editorial staff of Fire Management Today with the idea of republishing a selection of these past fire-behavior-…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stam
The fire environment on Kenai Peninsula and in south-central Alaska has experienced significant changes due to the recent spruce beetle epidemic (Fastabend 2002). Firefighters and fire researchers do not have enough experience with wildland fires that occur in the dead-spruce/…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Carroll, Bliss
Open woodland forests dominated by Pinus banksiana occur on sandy soils in northeastern Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan and are generally even-aged and uniform in height. Ordination techniques were used to divide the stands (n = 38) into the following communities: Pinus…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eaton, Wendler
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eastwood, Plummer, Wyatt, Stocks
Boreal forests cover 10% of the land surface and experience wide ranges of temperature and precipitation. In many parts of the boreal zone, fire drives vegetation succession, landscape dynamics and carbon cycling. Global climate change may affect the frequency and size of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Van Cleve
Surface soils on recently deposited alluvium along the Tanana River, Alaska, have an elevated pH and are high in salts such as calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate. With advancing plant succession surface soil chemistry changes, and when the alder - balsam poplar stage is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES