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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lisle, Luce, Ziemer, May
Wildfire poses special problems for land-use planners. Responses to fire must be planned in a short period immediately after a fire, relying heavily on information compiled before the extent and severity of the actual fire is known. Secondly, it has been difficult to learn from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoshikawa, Bolton, Romanovsky, Fukuda, Hinzman
The impact to the permafrost during and after wildfire was studied using 11 boreal forest fire sites including two controlled burns. Heat transfer by conduction to the permafrost was not significant during fire. Immediately following fire, ground thermal conductivity may…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wikars
Several boreal wood-living insect species breed exclusively in recently burned forest. However, the reason for this dependence on fire is largely unknown. Here wood-living insects and other arthropods were sampled from burned and unburned logs of birch (Betula pendula) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
This paper reviews and synthesizes literature on fire as a disturbance factor in boreal forests. Spatial and temporal variation in the biophysical environment, specifically, vegetative structure, terrain, and weather lead to variations in fire behaviour. Changes in slope, aspect…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
O'Neill, Kasischke, Richter
Boreal forests contain large amounts of stored soil carbon and are susceptible to periodic disturbance by wildfire. This study evaluates the relationship between post-fire changes in soil temperature, moisture, and CO2 exchange in paired burned and control stands of three…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nowak, Kershaw, Kershaw
Postfire development of cover and diversity was studied in an upland Picea mariana-dominated forest in the Canadian Subarctic. Short-term vegetation responses of 10- and 22-year-old cleared rights-of-way and a forest site were investigated two and three growing seasons after a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nilsson, Niklasson, Hedin, Aronsson, Gutowski, Linder, Ljungberg, Mikusinski, Rainus
We recorded and reviewed densities and basal areas of large living and dead trees in old-growth forest in Europe. Recorded densities were similar to those reported from old-growth forests in eastern North America, but lower than in northwestern North America. Based on our…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
In previous descriptions of wind-slope interaction and the spread rate of wildland fires it is assumed that the separate effects of wind and slope are independent and additive and that corrections for these effects may be applied to spread rates computed from existing rate of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Morissette, Cobb, Brigham, James
Post-fire timber harvesting (salvage logging) is becoming more prevalent as logging companies try to recover some of the economic losses caused by fire. Because salvaging is a relatively new practice and because of the common perception that burned areas are of little value to…
Year: 2002
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
Zouhar
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scher
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Field experiments using baited multiple-funnel traps and baited felled trees were conducted to test the hypothesis that semiochemicals from secondary species of scolytids could be used to disrupt spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) attraction. Semiochemicals from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Fire and timber harvest are the two major disturbances that alter forest ecosystems in interior Alaska. Both types of disturbance provide habitats that attract wood borers and bark beetles the first year after the disturbance, but populations then decrease to levels below those…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schmidt, Menakis, Hardy, Hann, Bunnell
We produced seven coarse-scale, 1-km2 resolution, spatial data layers for the conterminous United States to support national-level fire planning and risk assessments. Four of these layers were developed to evaluate ecological conditions and risk to ecosystem components:…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Ottmar, Peterson, Core
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on air quality can assist land, fire, and air resource managers with fire and smoke planning, and their efforts to explain to others the science behind fire-related program policies and practices to improve air quality.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gould, Hudak, González, Scatena
Landscape fragmentation creates an increasingly complex environment in which to manage forests in the United States. The effects of fragmentation on productivity, mortality, and decomposition in forests vary with fragment size, forest type, and climate. Fragmentation can affect…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot, Bothwell, Carlsson, Logan
The long-term effects of different fire management strategies on boreal forest composition and fuels under future fire regimes were studied in four National Parks (Wood Buffalo, Elk Island, Prince Albert and Riding Mountain National Park) in western Canada using a boreal fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beckwith
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keith, Rhodes
From the text ... 'Wich is best: bury, burn or both? The extraordinary heterogeneity of the energy system makes it unlikely that any single solution will triumph everywhere. In practice, there will be no absolute dominance of any one strategy over another, and each may well…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Smith
We summarize a large set of published values of forest floor mass and develop large-scale estimates of carbon mass according to region and forest type. Published values of forest floor carbon mass or information relevant to compiling such summaries are scarce. We present a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yonemura, Sudo, Tsuruta, Kawashima
To systematically explain relations between light hydrocarbons, CO, and CO2 concentrations/emissions of biomass burning, we measured concentrations/emissions of carbon gases -- CO, C02, light hydrocarbons (CH4, C2H6, C2H4, C2H2, C3H8, C3H6, n-C4H10, i-C4H10, n-C5H12, i-C5H12),…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Breshears, Allen
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amiro, Flannigan, Stocks, Wotton
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lertzman, Gavin, Hallett, Brubaker, Lepofsky, Mathewes
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS