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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Conard, Ivanova
Carbon emissions in fires in the boreal forests of Russia were calculated from data on the area burned, fire intensity, post-fire mortality and decomposition of fuels, and change in vegetation structure after fires. The actual area of boreal forests burned in Russia appears to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Schwartz
Data collected from 96 sites during 1990-95 showed that timber harvest in boreal forests of Alaska can greatly enhance or severely reduce moose (Alces alces) habitat quality, depending on forest management objectives, timing and methods of harvest, and post-logging site…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Racine, Walsh
The effects of two large experimental crude oil spills conducted in the winter and summer 1976 in a permafrost-underlain black spruce forest of interior Alaska were assessed 15 years after the spills. Effects on permafrost, as determined from measurements of active layer thaw…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Klinka, Kabzems
To develop anamorphic height growth and site index models for trembling aspen stands in British Columbia, a total of 33 naturally established, fire-originated, unmanaged, and even-aged stands were located in the Boreal White and Black Spruce zone. The breast-height ages of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, MacLellan
The woody vegetation that developed after clear felling and logging 131 stands dominated by Picea mariana was compared with that of stands that developed after fire in boreal forests of Ontario. Each dataset represents a stand chronosequence on a range of substrates.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Charron
Arboreal succession in the southern boreal forest of QuTbec was documented through a dendroecological analysis of a mid-successional stand originating from fire 75 years ago. The studied stand was located in the forest surrounding Lake Duparquet, south of Lake Abitibi in…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Klaver, Klaver
A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through used of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bergeron, Richard, Carcaillet, Gauthier, Flannigan, Prairie
Because some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting, forest management is often considered as a disturbance having effects similar to those of natural disturbances. Although the analogy between forest management and fire disturbance in boreal…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Leduc
We present a simple empirical model that allows an estimation of mortality due to spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreak in relation to fire frequency and site characteristics. The occurrence of a recent spruce budworm outbreak around Lake Duparquet (48 degree 30'N,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Engelmark, Harvey, Morin, Sirois
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Armstrong, Swant, Timmermann
The Ogoki-North Nakina Forests consist of 10 638 km^2 of unroaded boreal forest (predominantly Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana and Populus tremuloides) about 400 km NE of Thunder Bay, Ontario (latitude 50 degrees -51 degrees 31'N., longitude 86 degrees 30'-89 degrees W.).…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Angelstam
A conceptual model is presented as a guide to the maintenance and restoration of ecologically sustainable boreal forest. The model is based on the hypothesis that self-sustained forest ecosystems can be (re-)created, and their biodiversity developed, if forest management can…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynham, Wickware, Mason
In 1975 nd 1976, an experimental burning program was conducted in an immature stand of boreal jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) growing on level, granitic outwash sands in northern Ontario. Nine 0.4-ha plots were burned under a range of fire weather conditions and sampling was…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Belillas, Feller
The relationships between fire severity and fire-induced nutrient losses to the atmosphere and through soil leaching were investigated using small (4m²) plots in logging slash. The study utilized (Pseudotsuga menziesii - Tsuga heterophylla - thuja plicata) slash in southwestern…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morgan, Bunting
From the text...'Changing fire regimes have important implications for the health and function of ecosystems. Forest ecosystems change when fires are less frequent and more severe. The density of trees increases and fuels accumulate. More shade-tolerant, less disease-resistant…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moser, Smol, Lean, MacDonald
Physical and chemical variables were measured in 35 lakes from Wood Buffalo National Park, northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Of these lakes, 22 were sinkholes, situated on limestone and gypsum, five were situated on the Canadian Shield and eight were…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
This article explores the evidence for monoterpenes to alter rates of nutrient cycling, with particular emphasis on the nitrogen (N) cycle, from an ecosystem perspective. The general N cycle is reviewed and particular processes are noted where monoterpenes could exert control.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strang, Johnson, Chester
Near Kamloops in the British Columbia interior, a series of small plots were control-burned during the summer of 1977 after detailed botanical assay. Fire parameters were recorded, and soil and vegetation responses to burning were measured in detail for 3 years after the fires.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dignon, Atherton, Penner, Walton
We present estimates of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission from worldwide biomass burning totaling ~13 Tg N yr-1 on a 1 degree longitude by 1 degree latitude grid. Roughly 80 percent of these emissions occur in the zone from 25N to 25 degrees S. The inventory presented here is…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liski, Ilvesniemi, Makela, Starr
Potential causes for changes in the amounts of carbon (C) stored in the soils of boreal forests were studied by measuring the C in the soil along a 5000-year chronosequence in coastal western Finland and using a simple dynamic model of decomposition. The amount of soil C…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton, Richard, Carcaillet, Bergeron
Introduction...'Fire and climate are closely linked (Swetnam 1993). According to simulations of various general circulation models (GCMs), the earth's climate will be 1-3.5º C warmer by the end of the next century due to increasing atmospheric concentrations of radiatively…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodcock, Wells
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here designated as the most burnable part…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evaluating the type and state of Alaska taiga forests with imaging radar for use in ecosystem models
Changes in the seasonal CO2 flux of the boreal forests may result from increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations and associated global warming patterns. To monitor this potential change, a combination of information derived from remote sensing data, including forest type and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Briffa, Schweingruber, Jones, Osborn, Shiyatov, Vaganov
Tree-ring chronologies that represent annual changes in the density of wood formed during the late summer can provide a proxy for local summertime air temperature. Here we undertake an examination of large-regional-scale wood-density/air-temperature relationships using…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES