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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Rupp, Starfield, Chapin, Duffy
In the boreal biome, fire is the major disturbance agent affecting ecosystem change, and fire dynamics will likely change in response to climatic warming. We modified a spatially explicit model of Alaskan subarctic treeline dynamics (ALFRESCO) to simulate boreal vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Chapin, Starfield
The response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate warming has important implications to potential feedbacks to climate. The interactions between topography, climate, and disturbance (particularly wildfires) could alter recruitment patterns to reduce or offset current predicted…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Net CO2 exchange rates in three different successional stages of the 'Dark Taiga' of central Siberia
The net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of successional stages of the Abies-dominated dark taiga was measured in central Siberia (61 degrees N 90 degrees E) during the growing season of the year 2000 using the eddy covariance technique. Measurements started before snow melt and canopy…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rees, Juday
Natural fires and logging are two of the main disturbances affecting upland boreal forest in Alaska. The objectives of this study were to determine whether logged sites differ from burned sites in (1) overall plant species richness, (2) successional trajectories, and (3) species…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Purdy, Macdonald, Dale
Early establishment of white spruce (Picea glauca) in mixedwood boreal forest stands following fire was examined in Alberta, Canada at several times-since-fire (1-, 2-, 4-, 6-, 14-years). Abiotic and biotic conditions in the stands were assessed at two scales, tree plot (5 m x 5…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Current research on severe fire interactions with the atmosphere focuses largely on examination of correlations between fire growth and various atmospheric properties, and on the development of indices based on these correlations. The author proposes that progress requires…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
Post-fire regeneration of Picea glauca on boreal mixedwood sites appears to be highly variable over time. Our objectives were to determine whether ground-level ring counts underestimate root collar age of understorey P. glauca and whether aging errors increase with stand age.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Park, Moon
This study investigates the backscattering properties of C-band RADARSAT (SAR) signal over sloping mountainous areas, and evaluates the utility of RADARSAT in natural disaster areas (e.g., forest fires), geological mapping, monitoring of natural hazards, natural and associated…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill, Eck, Holben, Smirnov, Royer, Li
Aerosol optical properties derived from Sun photometry were investigated in terms of climatological trends at two Sun photometer sites significantly affected by western Canadian boreal forest fire smoke and in terms of a 2-week series of smoke events observed at stations near…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
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
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
York, Rodman, See, Rose, Barnwell
In 2001, the US Forest Service declared Anchorage, Alaska (USA), an urban wildland interface community at high risk from wildfire. Anchorage is approximately 1,251,620 acres in size and home to half (265,000) of the state's population. The majority of residents live within the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sestak, O'Neill, Ferguson, Ching, Fox
Forest Service research has developed a set of tools to estimate fuel consumption and resulting emissions from wildland fire. These two models, CONSUME (Ottmar et al., 1993) and EPM (Emissions Production Model, McKenzie et al., 2002 and Sandberg and Peterson, 1984) have formed…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Fujioka, Brown
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making experimental, near real-time seasonal global forecasts since Sept. 26, 1997 with the NCEP global spectral model used for the reanalysis. Images of these forecasts, at daily to seasonal time scales, are…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renner, Martin
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Wright
Small-log utilization or thinning operations followed by a fuel treatment such as prescribed fire can be used to change the composition and structure of fuelbeds, thereby mitigating deleterious fire effects and reducing the potential for catastrophic wildfires in some forested…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGaughey
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) can help managers assess the risk, behavior, and impact of fire in forest ecosystems. The FFE reports surface fuel characteristics including the weight of woody material in various size classes.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES