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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Liu, Zhang, Shaefer, Wahr
[from the text] The Arctic climate has experienced more rapid warming than anywhere else on Earth over the past hundred years and this trend is expected to continue over the next century [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007]. About 80% of Alaska is underlain…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strong
To determine the effect of tree canopy composition on understory species abundance, three-hundred 2 m x 2-m quadrats from 30 high-latitude boreal forest stands were sampled. In addition, all trees within a 3mradius of each quadrat center and > or = 1 m tall were also measured…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raison, Khanna
A changing climate could induce a myriad of changes in forests and thus in forest soil health at the global scale, as a consequence of both direct and indirect impacts. The direct effects include increased temperature and atmospheric concentration of CO2, changes in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Messaoud, Chen
Tree growth has been reported to increase in response to recent global climate change in controlled and semi-controlled experiments, but few studies have reported response of tree growth to increased temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in natural…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parent
Vegetation health can be monitored using a time series of remotely sensed images by calculating the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). We assessed temporal trends throughout an NDVI time series with three sensors: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pan, Birdsey, Fang, Houghton, Kauppi, Kurz, Phillips, Shvidenko, Lewis, Canadell, Ciais, Jackson, Pacala, McGuire, Piao, Rautiainen, Sitch, Hayes
The terrestrial carbon sink has been large in recent decades, but its size and location remain uncertain. Using forest inventory data and long-term ecosystem carbon studies, we estimate a total forest sink of 2.4 T 0.4 petagrams of carbon per year (Pg C year^-1) globally for…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nossov, Hollingsworth, Ruess, Kielland
We investigated the population dynamics of the keystone symbiotic N-fixing species Alnus tenuifolia (thinleaf alder) and the patterns of primary succession on the Tanana River floodplains of interior Alaska, USA. The goals of this study were to characterize (i) the variation in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
My dissertation furthers work in ecosystem resilience and social-ecological resilience to global change, in the systems of a) the northern boreal forest of interior Alaska, where climate change drives a changing wildfire regime; and b) a central Californian estuary, where N…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lindgren
Natural disturbances such as fires, insect outbreaks and windthrows are able to influence the balance between the ecosystem gain and loss of carbon in the boreal forest. This effect of natural disturbances on the ecosystem carbon balance has been proposed as one of the reasons…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolken, Landhausser, Lieffers, Silins
To test the hypothesis that seedling growth and water use increase with soil temperature and improved soil aeration and vary with species, we evaluated the above- and below-ground growth and water use of seedlings of four northern boreal conifer species: black spruce (Picea…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This metadata field form documents collected GPS data for any incident.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Smith, Hardy
On September 12, 1960, the brand new Northern Forest Fire Laboratory was dedicated in Missoula, MT. The fire lab's mission was-and is-to improve scientific understanding of wildland fire so it can be managed more safely and effectively in the field. The first scientists to work…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Letz, Fuchtman, Davis
The impacts of wildfire are not always confined to the effects of fire alone, but sometimes extend to the consequences of suppression-related operations. As always, scale plays a role in the extent of effects, and a group of Forest Service employees are exploring ways to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, Harden, McGuire, Bliss, Bockheim, Clark, Hollingsworth, Jorgenson, Kane, Mack, O'Donnell, Ping, Schuur, Turetsky, Valentine
The direction and magnitude of soil organic carbon (SOC) changes in response to climate change remain unclear and depend on the spatial distribution of SOC across landscapes. Uncertainties regarding the fate of SOC are greater in high-latitude systems where data are sparse and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Klein, Verbyla, Rupp, Chapin
Recent research has linked climate warming to global declines in caribou and reindeer (both Rangifer tarandus) populations. We hypothesize large-scale climate patterns are a contributing factor explaining why these declines are not universal. To test our hypothesis for such…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The third installment in the International Association of Wildland Fire's (IAWF) Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference series was held in Spokane, WA, October 25-29, 2010, and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1910 fires in the Northern Rocky Mountains. The theme of the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lawrence
Anyone who has been a wildland firefighter for any period of time has experienced the effects of fatigue first hand. From the complete lack of sleep when engaged in the often-times chaotic initial attack on a major fire to the seemingly never-ending night shifts on a campaign…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Foss
The Veterans Fire Corps is a collaborative initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Veterans Green Jobs, and various conservation corps that engage recent-era veterans on priority hazardous fuels projects. The program…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brackley, Parrent
Description: An extensive literature review failed to locate any information relative to the pelleting characteristics of hemlock species-western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) and mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carr. )-that grow in Alaska. To determine…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baird
Climate has warmed substantially in boreal Alaska since the mid-1970s. The direct effects of rising temperatures on sub-Arctic ecosystems are already being observed in the form of drought stress, increased fire frequency and severity, and increased frequency and severity of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prakash, Schaefer, Witte, Collins, Gens, Goyette
A coal seam fire in interior Alaska was suspected to have started the Rex Creek forest fire in the summer of 2009. With prevailing winds, the forest fire spread rapidly to the north and within eleven days it burned about 410 km2 of boreal forest. Coal seam fires can go unnoticed…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Postfire energy exchange in arctic tundra: the importance and climatic implications of burn severity
Fires produce land cover changes that have consequences for surface energy balance and temperature. Three eddy covariance towers were setup along a burn severity gradient (i.e. Severely, Moderately, and Unburned tundra) to determine the effect of fire and burn severity on arctic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Umezawa, Aoki, Kim, Morimoto, Nakazawa
To investigate spatial variations of CH4 concentration, d13CH4, and dD-CH4 over Alaska, aircraft observations were conducted during the summer of 2006. CH4 concentrations elevated above the background level were observed over areas with wetlands and wildfires, important sources…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wendler, Conner, Moore, Shulski, Stuefer
Wildfires are a common experience in Alaska where, on average, 3,775 km2 burn annually. More than 90% of the area consumed occurs in Interior Alaska, where the summers are relatively warm and dry, and the vegetation consists predominantly of spruce, birch, and cottonwood.…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, Cole, Newton
To identify suitable methods for reforestation, we evaluated the interacting effects of past disturbance, stock types, and site preparation treatments on white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedling survival and growth across a range of sites in Alaska. Replicated…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES