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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Aukema, Werner, Haberkern, Illman, Clayton, Raffa
The spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), causes landscape level mortality to mature spruce (Picea spp.) throughout western and northern North America. As with other bark beetles, this beetle is associated with a variety of fungi, whose ecological functions are largely…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Asselin, Payette
Assessment of the impacts of future climate change on the boreal forest and forest-tundra biomes relies on a clear understanding of their past dynamics. Fire history information recorded in lake and peat sediments can be retrieved by counting charcoal particles on pollen slides…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Apps, McGuire
Twenty papers are presented from the conference convened jointly by the International Boreal Forest Research Association and the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program. A further 9 papers will be published in a special issue of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Monoterpenes, principal components of turpentine, have been shown to be inversely correlated with N mineralization and nitrification rates in ponderosa pine soil, and are suspected to be allelopathic substances causing germintion inhibition or growth regulation. Because…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swift, Rundel
The annual species occurring after fire in the chaparral can be loosely grouped into two categories. Generalist species are found in disturbed areas other than burns and these species remain a part of the post-fire flora for up to five years. Fire-specialist species only occur…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Tilman
The interactive effects of fertilization and disturbance on plant community structure and resource availability were studied by supplying four levels of nitrogen and applying four intensities of tilling to a 30 year old field in a factorial design for 2 years.© Springer-Verlag.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bildstein, Bancroft, Dugan, Gordon, Erwin, Nol, Payne, Senner
Coastal wetlands rank among the most productive and ecologically valuable natural ecosystems on Earth. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most disturbed. Because they are productive and can serve as transporation arteries, coastal wetlands have long attracted human…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
A 20-year-old aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) ecosystem was subjected to two cutting and two burning treatments. Cutting and prescribed burning were carried out on separate areas. One cutting and one burning treatment was applied both before and after spring leaf flush. An…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lobert, Scharffe, Hao, Kuhlbusch, Seuwan, Warneck, Crutzen
Today biomass burning is accepted to be an important source of many trace gases affecting atmospheric chemistry (Crutzen et al., 1979; Cofer et al., 1988a; Radke et al., 1988; Crutzen et al., 1990). Despite its global significance and in contrast to fossil fuel use, where…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neff, Harden, Gleixner
Boreal ecosystems contain a substantial fraction of the earth's soil carbon stores and are prone to frequent and severe wildfires. In this study, we examine changes in element and organic matter stocks due to a 1999 wildfire in Alaska. One year after the wildfire, burned soils…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gorham
Boreal and subarctic peatlands comprise a carbon pool of 455 Pg that has accumulated during the postglacial period at an average net rate of 0.096 Pg/yr (1 Pg = 10'5 g). Using Clymo's (1984) model, the current rate is estimated at 0.076 Pg/yr. Longterm drainage of these…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Etiegni, Campbell
Chemical and physical properties are important in the development of processes for the disposal and utilization of wood ash. Ash yield was seen to decrease by approximately 45% as the combustion temperature increased from 538 to 1093 degrees C. Potassium, sodium, zinc and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Wooster
The classification of savanna fires into headfire and backfire types can in theory help in assessing pollutant emissions to the atmosphere via relative apportionment of the amounts of smouldering and flaming combustion occurring, and is also important when assessing a fire's…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Petrone
Detailed observations of stream, soil, and groundwater chemistry were used to determine the role of fire, permafrost and snowmelt processes on the fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and major solutes from interior Alaskan catchments. We examined an experimentally burned watershed and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This technical report examines different future scenarios for sequestering carbon and reducing emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from U.S. forestry and agriculture. Net greenhouse gas mitigation estimates in response to carbon price assumptions are presented for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogel, Valentine, Ruess
Climate warming at high latitudes is expected to increase root and microbial respiration and thus cause an increase in soil respiration. We measured the root and microbial components of soil respiration near Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2000 and 2001, in three black spruce (Picea…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Hyer, Novelli, Bruhwiler, French, Sukhinin, Hewson, Stocks
There were large interannual variations in burned area in the boreal region (ranging between 3.0 and 23.6x106 ha yr-1) for the period of 1992 and 1995-2003 which resulted in corresponding variations in total carbon and carbon monoxide emissions. We estimated a range of carbon…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Czimczik, Schmidt, Schulze
Fires in boreal forests frequently convert organic matter in the organic layer to black carbon, but we know little of how changing fire frequency alters the amount, composition and distribution of black carbon and organic matter within soils, or affects podzolization. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pu, Gong, Fraser, Csiszar, Hao
Fires in boreal and temperate forests play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. While forest fires in North America (NA) have been surveyed most extensively by US and Canadian forest services, most fire records are limited seasonal statistics without information on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Stanturf, Tian, Qu
From introduction: Wildfire is a majoar natural disaster in the United States. In 2002, for example, tens of thousands of wildfires occurred that consumed nearly seven million acres of forest and other land cover (NIFC, 2003). Wildfires contribute to increasing atmospheric CO2…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Smoldering ground fires can raise mineral soil temperatures above 300°C for several hours with peak temperatures near 600°C. Such temperatures can result in the decomposition of organic material and kill important soil organisms. The heat evolved per unit organic mass was…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS