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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Long, Wade, Beall
Fire managers define the wildland-urban interface as all areas were flammable wildland fuels are adjacent to homes and communities. With this definition, the wild-land-urban interface may encompass a much broader landscape than traditionally perceived. For example, the Tunnel…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeBano, Neary, Ffolliott
Soil physical properties are those characteristics, processes, or reactions of a soil that are caused by physical forces that can be described by, or expressed in, physical terms or equations (Soil Science Society of America 2001). These physical properties (including processes…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeBano, Neary
Soil is a heterogeneous mixture of mineral particles and organic matter that is found in the uppermost layer of Earth's crust. The soil is formed as a product of the continual interactions among the biotic (faunal and floral), climatic (atmospheric and hydrologic), topographic,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Claridge, Trappe
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mabuhay, Isagi, Nakagoshi
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manies, Harden, Bond-Lamberty, O'Neill
This study investigated the role of fire-killed woody debris as a source of soil carbon in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands in Manitoba, Canada. We measured the amount of standing dead and downed woody debris along an upland chronosequence, including wood…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kendawang, Tanaka, Shibata, Yoshida, Sabang, Ninomiya, Sakurai
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garcia, Carignan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smithwick, Turner, Mack, Chapin
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kim, Hatsushika, Muskett, Yamazaki
The role of black carbon (BC) soot in the Arctic as an agent of climate warming through forcing/feedback of sea ice/glacier albedo is an uncertainty in need of addressing. In-situ measurements of BC-aerosols and gas byproducts from the FROSTFIRE experiment burn, 8-11 July 1999,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kemball, Wang, Dang
The understory plant community of 63 boreal mixedwood stands in southeastern Manitoba, Canada, that were disturbed in the 1980s (21 by crown fire, 20 by logging, and 22 by severe spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreak) were investigated. Understory plant communities…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Johnstone
This study investigated the relationship between climate and landscape characteristics and surface fuel consumption as well as the effects of variations in postfire organic layer depth on soil temperature and moisture in a black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest complex…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Kasischke
This study tested whether variations in soil burn severity (soil organic layer consumption) influenced patterns of early postfire plant regeneration in a black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest in interior Alaska. Variations in burn severity were related to measurements…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
This experiment tests the effects of early canopy development by asexually regenerating aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) on conifer recruitment after fire in central Alaska. The establishment and growth of three conifer species were observed in response to aboveground removal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, Peterson
ANNOTATION: In order to accomplish complex and multiple management objectives related to forest structure, fuels, and fire disturbance, these two disciplines must be effectively integrated in science and practice. The authors have linked scientific and management tools to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ingalsbee
Construction of fuelbreaks as a presuppression fuels treatment strategy in national forests has always been controversial (Omi 1996). Criticisms have been raised over the objectives, prescriptions, locations, methods, costs, impacts, and effectiveness of fuelbreak construction…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hill, Mallik, Chen
Canopy gaps play an important role in forest vegetation dynamics when fire return intervals are long. However, there is little known about the role of gaps in the development of forest stands that initially dominate following stand-replacing disturbance. We investigated gap…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lloyd, Wilson, Fastie, Landis
Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) is the dominant species in interior Alaska but it is largely absent from the arctic tree line. To evaluate the importance of climate and fire as controls over the species distribution, we reconstructed stand history at three sites near…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larrivée, Fahrig, Drapeau
Ground-dwelling spider (Araneae) assemblages were compared between recent clearcuts and burned black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests. Spiders were sampled using pitfall traps placed in 6 recently burned sites, 6 recently clear-cut sites, and 6 undisturbed sites in…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Tian, Liu
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fairbrother, Turnley
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mandates that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as its fire management policy evolves to cope with a legacy of over 100 years of fire suppression on national forest lands and an increasing…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Epting, Verbyla, Sorbel
We evaluated 13 remotely sensed indices across four wildfire burn sites in interior Alaska. The indices included single bands, band ratios, vegetation indices, and multivariate components. Each index was evaluated with post-burn and differenced pre/post-burn index values. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Epting, Verbyla
Landsat imagery was used to study the relationship between a remotely sensed burn severity index and prefire vegetation and the postfire vegetation response related to burn severity within a 1986 burn in interior Alaska. Vegetation was classified prior to the fire and 16 years…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellison, Bank, Clinton, Colburn, Elliott, Ford, Foster, Kloeppel, Knoepp, Lovett, Mohan, Orwig, Rodenhouse, Sobezak, Stinson, Stone, Swan, Thompson, Von Holle, Webster
In many forested ecosystems, the architecture and functional ecology of certain tree species define forest structure and their species-specific traits control ecosystem dynamics. Such foundation tree species are declining throughout the world due to introductions and outbreaks…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Brown
Wildfire suppression expenditures on national forest land have increased over the last 35 years, exceeding US$ 1 billion in 2000 and 2002. These increases in expenditure have been attributed, in part, to a century of aggressive wildfire suppression, resulting in a buildup of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS