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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Foltz, Robichaud
Recent expansions in post-fire rehabilitation research have increased the knowledge base and opened the door to more informed decision making and successful post-fire rehabilitation efforts. Although there are many tools which have been developed to estimate peak flows and road…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Kovalev, Susott
The proposal addresses AFP 2004-1, Task 1. The goal of this project is to demonstrate and implement the most advanced technologies for measurements of smoke particulates in real-time. It will focus on obtaining and documenting critical, time-sensitive information on the three-…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi, Cronan, Huffman
This JFSP-funded project assessed the relationship between stand age and fire behavior in the black spruce forest type of interior Alaska. Forest canopy and substrate data were collected from sites representing a time sequence of stand age ranging from two to 227 years. These…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
Book's description: This book provides a unique, state-of-the-art review of both traditional and emerging themes in the economics of natural forest disturbances. Although natural disturbances such as wildfire, hurricanes and pests have long been recognized as important factors…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abt, Huggett, Holmes
Book's description: This book provides a unique, state-of-the-art review of both traditional and emerging themes in the economics of natural forest disturbances. Although natural disturbances such as wildfire, hurricanes and pests have long been recognized as important factors…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holmes, Prestemon, Abt
This book provides a unique, state-of-the-art review of both traditional and emerging themes in the economics of natural forest disturbances. Although natural disturbances such as wildfire, hurricanes and pests have long been recognized as important factors influencing the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This state-of-knowledge review of information on relationships between wildland fire and nonnative invasive plants can assist fire managers and other land managers concerned with prevention, detection, and eradication or control of nonnative invasive plants. The 16 chapters in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Hao
The goal of the project was to fulfill a thorough investigation of (1) the potential and limitations of the remote sensing lidar technique when operating in smoky polluted atmospheres, and (2) the ability of lidar in providing the accurate real time information on smoke plume…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Miller
This project delivers up-to-date, science-based information about species nominated by wildland managers for revision in or addition to the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). FEIS now provides 1,081 literature reviews covering 1,139 taxa. This JFSP task has supported the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Villano
As the climate changes, Alaska's boreal forest faces the simultaneous threats of rising invasive plant abundances and increasing area burned by wildfire. Highly flammable and widespread black spruce forest represents a boreal habitat that may be increasingly susceptible to non-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer, Haight, Prestemon
With expenditures to suppress wildfires in the United States increasing rapidly during the past couple of decades, fire managers, scientists, and policy makers have begun an intense effort to develop alternative approaches to managing wildfire. One alternative is 'fuels…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Renner, Reams
Wildfire may result from natural processes or as the result of human actions (Ffolliott 1988, Mees 1990). As a natural phenomenon, it is important in sustaining forest health in fire-dependent ecosystems. While some wildfire may be ecologically beneficial, it poses a threat to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crawford
Book description: Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to withstand the changes that may be brought about by a warmer world? Biogeography,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Al-Saadi, Soja, Pierce, Szykman, Wiedinmyer, Emmons, Kondragunta, Zhang, Kittaka, Schaack, Bowman
We compare biomass burning emissions estimates from four different techniques that use satellite based fire products to determine area burned over regional to global domains. Three of the techniques use active fire detections from polar-orbiting MODIS sensors and one uses…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jaenicke, Rieley, Mott, Kimman, Siegert
Extensive peatlands in Indonesia are a major store of carbon. Deforestation, conversion to other land uses, especially plantations of oil palm and pulpwood trees, and recurrent fires have recently caused the release of large amounts of this carbon to the atmosphere. If these…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cahill, Cahill, Perry
Aerosols from wildfires are the primary aerosols in the Arctic atmosphere during the summer months. These aerosols occur in large, increasing quantities and impact the sensitive radiative balance in the Arctic. FROSTFIRE, a controlled burn in a Long-Term Ecological Research Area…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benscoter, Vitt
Peatland ground layer species composition is intricately tied to ecosystem function (for example, carbon storage). As the primary disturbance in boreal bogs, wildfire selectively removes the ground layer vegetation, creating heterogeneous habitat conditions and initiating…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shetler, Turetsky, Kane, Kasischke
The high water retention of hummock-forming Sphagnum species minimizes soil moisture fluctuations and might protect forest floor organic matter from burning during wildfire. We hypothesized that Sphagnum cover reduces overall forest floor organic matter consumption during…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Hall, Murphy, Verbyla, Hoy, Allen
There has been considerable interest in the recent literature regarding the assessment of post-fire effects on forested areas within the North American boreal forest. Assessing the physical and ecological effects of fire in boreal forests has far-reaching implications for a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murdiyarso, van Noordwijk, Puntodewo, Widayati, Lusiana
The promise of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to deliver its dual objectives is currently under public scrutiny. In land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) activities through afforestation and reforestation projects, known as A/R CDM, the deliverables that…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurz, Stinson, Rampley
To understand how boreal forest carbon (C) dynamics might respond to anticipated climatic changes, we must consider two important processes. First, projected climatic changes are expected to increase the frequency of fire and other natural disturbances that would change the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jeong, Evans, Dann, Graham, Herod, Dabek-Zlotorzynska, Mathieu, Ding, Wang
Particulate matter (PM) speciation data were collected between November 2004 and August 2006 in the rural valley area of British Columbia, Canada. Source apportionment of PM was performed using a receptor model, positive matrix factorization (PMF), to identify possible sources…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Neergaard, Magid, Mertz
The sustainability of shifting cultivation systems and their impact on soil quality continues to be debated, and although a growing body of literature shows a limited impact on, e.g. Soil carbon stocks, shifting cultivation still has a reputation as detrimental to the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Obrist, Moosmuller, Schurmann, Chen, Kreidenweis
Mercury emissions from wildfires are significant natural sources of atmospheric mercury, but little is known about what controls speciation of emissions important to mercury deposition processes. The goal of this study was to quantify gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jaffe, Hafner, Chand, Westerling, Spracklen
In this study we have evaluated the role of wildfires on concentrations of fine particle (d < 2.5 mm) organic carbon (OC) and particulate mass (PM2.5) in the Western United States for the period 1988-2004. To do this, we examined the relationship between mean summer PM2.5 and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS