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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bouldin
Aim: I detail several problems and solutions related to estimating pre-settlement forest density from land surveyors' bearing tree data. The data have a high value, so clarification of existing problems is needed in the development of a better theoretical framework in which to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boucher, Mead
Forests of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska experienced widespread spruce (Picea spp.) mortality during a massive spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) infestation over a 15-year period. In 1987, and again in 2000, the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boucher, Gauthier, Degrandpré
The influence of stand age and site conditions on the structure of coniferous stands was studied in the boreal forest of Quebec's Cote-Nord, a region with low fire recurrence. Stand diameter diversity was measured in 2202 forest inventory plots in black spruce (Picea mariana),…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Roy
The interannual variability of fire activity has been studied without an explicit investigation of a suitable starting month for yearly calculations. Sensitivity analysis of 37 months of global MODIS active fire detections indicates that a 1-month change in the start of the fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Asselin, Payette
The basic unit of the forest-tundra landscape is a toposequence extending from a wet, forested valley to a xeric, deforested hilltop; the contact zone between these two environments being called a subarctic tree line. Dendrochronological analysis of living, dead, and subfossil…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Middleton, Holsten, van Diggelen
Question: Can the biodiversity of fens in Europe and North America be maintained through the use of grazing (especially cattle grazing), fire, and/or cutting? Location: European and North American fens. Methods: This paper is a review of the literature on the effects of grazing…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bret-Harte, Mack, Goldsmith, Sloan, DeMarco, Shaver, Ray, Biesinger, Chapin
Plant communities in natural ecosystems are changing and species are being lost due to anthropogenic impacts including global warming and increasing nitrogen (N) deposition. We removed dominant species, combinations of species and entire functional types from Alaskan tussock…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knapp, Briggs, Collins, Archer, Bret-Harte, Ewers, Peters, Young, Shaver, Pendall, Cleary
Shrub encroachment into grass-dominated biomes is occurring globally due to a variety of anthropogenic activities, but the consequences for carbon (C) inputs, storage and cycling remain unclear. We studied eight North American graminoid-dominated ecosystems invaded by shrubs,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blackard, Finco, Helmer, Holden, Hoppus, Jacobs, Lister, Moisen, Nelson, Riemann, Ruefenacht, Salajanu, Weyermann, Winterberger, Brandeis, Czaplewski, McRoberts, Patterson, Tycio
Annotation: This paper presents a spatially explicit dataset of aboveground live forest biomass made from ground measured inventory plots for the conterminous U.S., Alaska and Puerto Rico. The plot data are from the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The Fire and Fire Surrogates (FFS) network is composed of 12 forest sites that span the continental United States, all of which historically had frequent low-severity fire. The goal of the FFS study was to assess the efficacy of three management treatments (prescribed fire,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenihan, Bachelet, Neilson, Drapek
A modeling experiment was designed to investigate the impact of fire management, CO2 emission rate, and the growth response to CO2 on the response of ecosystems in the conterminous United States to climate scenarios produced by three different General Circulation Models (GCMs)…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimov, Schuur, Chapin
Climate warming will thaw permafrost, releasing trapped carbon from this high-latitude reservoir and further exacerbating global warming.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shvidenko, Apps
Boreal forests represent a biome of the planet whose unique characteristics are changing rapidly under the influence of both human and natural pressures. These forests hold the key to current and future supply of coniferous industrial wood and at the same time play a significant…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mouillot, Narasimha, Balkanski, Lamarque, Field
We used a new, 100-year, 1 × 1° global fire map and a carbon cycle model (CASA) to provide a yearly gridded estimate of the temporal trend in carbon emissions due to wildfires through the 20th century. 2700–3325 Tg C y−1 burn at the end of the 20th century, compared to 1500–2700…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Land-use change and carbon sinks: econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function
When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies ù such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation ù should be part of the domestic portfolio of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Apps, Shvidenko, Vaganov
This special issue contains 14 papers providing information on the adaptation and mitigation strategies of northern forest biomes as a consequence both of climatic change impacts. The first paper provides a review of the history and contributions of the International Boreal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Law, Turner, Campbell, Lefsky, Guzy, Sun, Tuyl, Cohen
Scaling biogeochemical processes to regions, continents, and the globe is critical for understanding feedbacks between the biosphere and atmosphere in the analysis of global change. This includes the effects of changing atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate, disturbances, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hsi, Kuo
Estimating solid residue gross burning rate and heating value burning in a power plant furnace is essential for adequate manipulation to achieve energy conversion optimization and plant performance. A model based on conservation equations of mass and thermal energy is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Cox, Beall, Brunjes, Pan, Kendall, Anderson, McMurry, Cobb, Smith
We evaluated the use of the gas exchange rate as an ecologically relevant indicator of chemical stress in avian embryos/eggs. Northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) were exposed to octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) via feed containing nominal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Welp, Randerson, Liu
Seasonal cycles of atmospheric CO2 and d18O-CO2 at high northern latitudes have the potential to serve as indicators of ecological change in response to climate changes. Effective interpretation of these observations requires an understanding of how different species and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Babrauskas
The heat of combustion of burning trees is often used in forest-fire hazard modeling to relate mass-loss results to the heat produced; therefore reliable values are needed. Experimental results for the effective heat of combustion of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.)…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS