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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jin, Randerson, Goetz, Beck, Loranty, Goulden
Severity of burning can influence multiple aspects of forest composition, carbon cycling, and climate forcing. We quantified how burn severity affected vegetation recovery and albedo change during early succession in Canadian boreal regions by combining satellite observations…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boateng, Heineman, Bedford, Nemec, McClarnon, Powelson
We examined the effects of various mechanical site preparation methods and windrow burning on container-grown planted lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) survival and growth for 20 years after treatment at a sub-boreal site in north-central British Columbia, Canada.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harden, Manies, O'Donnell, Johnson, Frolking, Fan
Post-fire storage of carbon (C) in organic-soil horizons was measured in one Canadian and three Alaskan chronosequences in black spruce forests, together spanning stand ages of nearly 200 yrs. We used a simple mass balance model to derive estimates of inputs, losses, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Halloran, Law, Goulden, Wang, Barr, Schaaf, Brown, Fuentes, Göckede, Black, Engel
Forest disturbances are major sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and therefore impact global climate. Biogeophysical attributes, such as surface albedo (reflectivity), further control the climate-regulating properties of forests. Using both tower-based and remotely…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gartner, Treseder, Malcolm, Sinsabaugh
Saprotrophic microbes are typically credited with producing extracellular enzymes that recycle organic matter, though roots and mycorrhizal fungi also can contribute and may compete with the saprotrophs. We examined extracellular enzyme activity associated with the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Mack
In this study we characterized spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon and nitrogen pools, soil moisture, and soil pH of the first 15 cm of the soil profile; depth of the organic horizon; forest floor covers; and understory vegetation abundances in three sites (1999, 1987 and 1920…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'Fused inorganic tubes caused by lightning strokes to the ground, called fulgurites, are abundant in many portions of the earth. Ample evidence of fossil fires, called fusain, lies buried in the coal beds of all the coal-forming periods known to geology. For…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein
Continental populations of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) usually winter in the northern taiga. Fire is a natural feature of the ecology of the taiga but its effect on the winter range of caribou has been the subject of conflicting reports in the literature. Lichens, which are an…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rowell, Hajny, Young
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dubreuil, Moore
The redistribution of nutrients after fire was examined under laboratory conditions by igniting samples of spruce needles, birch leaves and lichen and leaching the ash through a soil column. Nitrogen was lost from the tissue samples at temperatures above 200 deg C, and 52-88% of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ward, McMahon, Adams
The information presented is directed to environmental scientists and resource managers concerned with sulfur emissions from combustion processes. Atmospheric chemists believe these emissions accumulate in the stratosphere and affect the earth's radiation balance. Some of these…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dore, Montes-Helu, Hart, Hungate, Koch, Moon, Finkral, Kolb
Carbon uptake by forests is a major sink in the global carbon cycle, helping buffer the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, yet the potential for future carbon uptake by forests is uncertain. Climate warming and drought can reduce forest carbon uptake by reducing…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Abatzoglou
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
Eighteen experimental fires were used to compare measured and calculated values for emission factors and fuel consumption to evaluate the carbon balance technique. The technique is based on a model for the emission factor of carbon dioxide, corrected for the production of other…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS