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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Harner, Tibbets
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scheuner, Makeschin, Wells, Carter
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Treseder, Mack, Cross
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manies, Harden, Wickland
Boreal forests contain a significant portion of the world's terrestrial carbon in their surface organics and soil horizons. Fire, the main disturbance in these forests, plays an important role in regulating the flow of carbon in these landscapes. To better understand the effects…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
van Woesik
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Cary, Davies, Flannigan, Gardner, Lavorel, Lenihan, Li, Rupp
A classification of spatial simulation models of fire and vegetation dynamics (landscape fire succession models or LFSMs) is presented. The classification was developed to provide a foundation for comparing models and to help identify the appropriate fire and vegetation…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Christian, Kleiss, Yokelson, Holzinger, Crutzen, Hao, Shirai, Blake
Oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOC) can dominate atmospheric organic chemistry, but they are difficult to measure reliably at low levels in complex mixtures. Several techniques that have been used to speciate nonmethane organic compounds (NMOC) including OVOC were…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Chapin, Foote, Kemmett, Price, Viereck
This paper presents data on early postfire tree regeneration. The data were obtained from repeated observations of recently burned forest stands along the Yukon-British Columbia border and in interior Alaska. Postfire measurements of tree density were made periodically for 20-30…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jaatinen, Knief, Dunfield, Yrjala, Fritze
Methane-oxidizing bacteria are the only terrestrial sink for atmospheric methane. Little is known, however, about the methane-oxidizing bacteria that are responsible for the consumption of atmospheric methane, or about the factors that influence their activity and diversity in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ice, Neary, Adams
Wildfire can cause water repellency and consume plant canopy, surface plants and litter, and structure-enhancing organics within soil. Changes in soil moisture, structure, and infiltration can accelerate surface runoff, erosion, sediment transport, and deposition. Intense…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hudak, Fairbanks, Brockett
Climate, topography, vegetation and land use interact to influence fire regimes.Variable fire regimes may promote landscape heterogeneity, diversification in vegetation pattern and biotic diversity. The objective was to compare effects of alternative land use practices on…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunt, Haider
This article investigates the aesthetic impacts of anthropogenic and fire disturbances on forested shorelines for most coniferous forest types of the boreal forest. The novel use of the psychophysical landscape-perception approach to near-vista-view shoreline settings makes this…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Westrick, Ferguson, Goodrick, Bradshaw, Werth
Previous studies of model performance at varying resolutions have focused on winter storms or isolated convective events. Little attention has been given to the static high pressure situations that may lead to severe wildfire outbreaks. This study focuses on such an event so as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haeussler, Bergeron
Composition, structure, and diversity of vascular and nonvascular plant communities was compared 3 years after wildfire and clear-cutting in mesic trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests of the southern Canadian boreal forest. We examined mean response to disturbance and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girardin, Tardif, Flannigan, Wotton, Bergeron
Trends and periodicities in summer drought severity are investigated on a network of Canadian Drought Code (CDC) monthly average indices extending from central Quebec to western Manitoba and covering the instrumental period 1913-1998. The relationship and coherency between CDC…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furyaev, Pleshikov, Zlobina, Furyaev
Climate warming from north to south along the Yenisei meridian causes an increase in the frequency and severity of forest fires and a simultaneous decrease in the mean intervals between fires. The pyrological regimes characteristic of each subzone emissions, and the regeneration…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu
This study analyzes spatial and temporal variability of emissions from wildland fires across the contiguous US. The emissions are estimates based on a recently constructed dataset of historical fire records collected by multiple US governmental agencies. Both wildfire and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gillett, Weaver, Zwiers, Flannigan
The area burned by forest fires in Canada has increased over the past four decades, at the same time as summer season temperatures have warmed. Here we use output from a coupled climate model to demonstrate that human emissions of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol have made a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Goovaerts, Kasischke
The uncertainty in carbon emissions from fire was estimated for the boreal region of Alaska over the 50 years of recorded wildfire. Building on previous work where carbon emissions were estimated using a geographic information systems-based model, the uncertainty attached to the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fitzgerald
The summer of 2004 was a hot and smoky one for Alaska's Interior, focusing residents' attention on fire management issues. Natural regeneration of the boreal forest after fire literally has made the forests that are managed today. Forestry professor Scott Rupp and others are…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fall, Fortin, Kneeshaw, Yamasaki, Messier, Bouthillier, Smyth
At the landscape scale, one of the key indicators of sustainable forest management is the age-class distribution of stands, since it provides a coarse synopsis of habitat potential, structural complexity, and stand volume, and it is directly modified by timber extraction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Detecting changes in arctic tundra plant communities in response to warming over decadal time scales
Detecting the response of vegetation to climate forcing as distinct from spatial and temporal variability may be difficult, if not impossible, over the typical duration of most field studies. We analyzed the spatial and interannual variability of plant functional type biomass…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elliot
The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) is a physically based erosion model for applications to dryland and irrigated agriculture, rangeland, and forests. U.S. Forest Service (USFS) experience showed that WEPP was not being adapted because of the difficulty in building files…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Densmore, Parminter, Stevens
To assess recent management practices, post-harvest levels of coarse woody debris (CWD) were measured in the Southern Interior and Northern Interior forest regions of British Columbia. A simple input and decay model was used to estimate the volumes of CWD that might be present…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DellaSala, Williams, Williams, Franklin
Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS