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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Harell
Studies of ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery have shown that fire scars in Alaskan forests are significantly brighter (3-6 dB) than surrounding unburned forest. The signature varies seasonally and changes as vegetation re-establishes on the site over longer time…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Swetnam, Berg
Tree ring patterns in white spruce (Picea glauca) and Sitka spruce (P. sitchensis) from 6 sites on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska document a widespread disturbance that killed overstory trees between 1880 and 1920. During this period 18-80% of trees in sampled stands record a ring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how both mineral soil and moisture content affect the smoldering combustion in forest duff. Peat was used to represent the fermentation and humus horizons (Oe and Oa soil horizons) of a coniferous forest floor nominally called…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, Wannamaker
Using age-structure determinations on both living and dead stems in censused plots, coupled with stem analysis techniques, an historical picture of mortality and above-ground tree stem growth was recreated for ten stands dominated by black spruce in northeastern Ontario, Canada…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunting, Lundberg
This field and microscope study explores the micromorphological changes occurring in humus profiles of the Canadian boreal forest which have been variously affected by factors of disturbance: fire, dehydration and overland flow after storms. It compares the materials and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
A study was carried out to investigate the effects of slash-burning on the nutrient status of two Sub-Boreal. Spruce zone ecosystems in the west central interior of British Columbia. The slash, forest floor and mineral soil (0—15 cm depth) in these ecosystems were sampled for…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Belyea, Warner
We examined short-term (decadal) and long-term (millenial) processes of peat accumulation, and the links between them, in a Sphagnum bog in continental Canada. A previously published model of bog growth was fitted to age profiles of the oxic acrotelm (surface, <60 cm thick)…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Korhola, Virkanen, Tikkanen, Blom
1 The effects of catchment fire on lake Pieni Majaslampi are examined by means of geochemical, charcoal, pollen, and diatom analyses of surface sediments. Particular emphasis is paid to pH responses in this naturally acid, weakly buffered, small-catchment lake. 2 An increase of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knicker, Almendros, Gonzalez-Vila, Martin, Ludemann
Sructural changes in lignocellulosic biomass heated under conitions comparable to those encountered in several types of natural or planned burnings have been studied by solid-state 13C- and 15N-CPMAS NMR spectroscopy of 15N-MNR spectra of biomass subjected to severe heating…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shay, Thompson, Shay
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kutiel, Naveh
In order to study the effect of fire on soil properties of a mixed Pinus halepensis Mill. and Quercus calliprinos Webb. forest, pH, organic matter, total and available nitrogen [(N, N-NH4 and N-(NO3+NO2)] and phosphorus and soluble cations (K, Mg, and Ca) were determined from…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kurz, Apps, Comeau, Trofymow
The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS2) is a national-scale model of forest sector carbon (C) pools and fluxes. This model has been applied to conduct a retrospective analysis of the C budget of the forests of British Columbia for the period 1920- 1989.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
Some soils with permafrost thawed deeply and become drier after forest fires, while others changed little. Soils with permafrost on the coldest and wettest landscape positions (concave to plane, lower slope positions, and north-facing midslopes) usually failed to thaw deeply…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mazurek, Laterza, Newman, Daum, Cofer, Levine, Winstead
In this study we examine the molecular organic constituents (C8 to C40 lipid compounds) collected as smoke particles from a Canadian boreal forest prescribed burn. Of special interest are (1) the molecular identity of polar organic aerosols, and (2) the amount of polar organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kambis, Levine
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kellomäki, Karjalainen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES