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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Peters, Macdonald, Dale
The timing of white spruce regeneration in aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.)-white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) boreal mixedwood stands is an important factor in stand development. We examined boreal mixedwood stands representing a 59-year period of time since fire and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Petrone, Hinzman, Jones, Shibata, Boone
Permafrost and fire are important regulators of hydrochemistry and landscape structure in the discontinuous permafrost region of interior Alaska. We examined the influence of permafrost and a prescribed burn on concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pearce, Venier
International and Canadian national and provincial level policy have proposed the use of criteria and indicators to examine the sustainability of renewable resource management. Species suitable as ecological indicators are those whose biology are sensitive to disturbance and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parker, Clancy, Mathiasen
1 Natural and recurring disturbances caused by fire, native forest insects and pathogens have interacted for millennia to create and maintain forests dominated by seral or pioneering species of conifers in the interior regions of the western United States and Canada. 2 Changes…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill, Richter, Kasischke
Boreal forests are highly susceptible to wildfire, and post-fire changes in soil temperature and moisture have the potential to transform large areas of the landscape from a net sink to a net source of carbon (C). Understanding the ecological controls that regulate these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nakano, Takeuchi, Inoue, Fukuda, Yasuoka
Temporal variations in methane (CH4) exchange between the soil and the atmosphere during a period of 3 years after a forest fire were estimated by combining field measurements of CH4 flux with an analysis of satellite images. The study area was located in a boreal peat swamp…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky, Harden, Friedli, Flannigan, Payne, Crock, Radke
With climate change rapidly affecting northern forests and wetlands, mercury reserves once protected in cold, wet soils are being exposed to burning, likely triggering large releases of mercury to the atmosphere. We quantify organic soil mercury stocks and burn areas across…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohlson, Korbal, Okland
We present a spatial and quantitative analysis of the macroscopic charcoal record in 11 forested peat basins in a boreal forest landscape in southeast Norway. The areas of the basins ranged from 200 to 6400 m2 and our study is based on 247 peat sequences that were sampled from…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Naydenov, Tremblay, Bergeron, Goudiaby
In the boreal forest, the beneficial effect of wildfire on germination substrates has often been linked to the adsorption by charcoal of phenolic compounds detrimental for seedling germination and growth. Our goal was to show that active charcoal has direct positive effects on…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Hallett, Berg, Jass, Toney, De Fontaine, De Volder
Several studies have noted a relationship between vegetation type and fire frequency, yet despite the importance of ecosystem processes such as fire the long-term relationships between disturbance, climate and vegetation type are incompletely understood. We analysed pollen,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Orchansky, Barr, Black, Chambers, Chapin, Goulden, Litvak, Liu, McCaughey, McMillan, Randerson
Fire in the boreal forest renews forest stands and changes the ecosystem properties. The successional stage of the vegetation determines the radiative budget, energy balance partitioning, evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide flux. Here, we synthesize energy balance measurements…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Wesser, Markon, Winterberger
From 1989 to 2003, a widespread outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) in the Copper River Basin, Alaska, infested over 275,000 ha of forests in the region. During 1997 and 1998, we measured forest vegetation structure and composition on one hundred and thirty-six…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig, Bair
Forest environmental conditions are affected by climate change, but investments in forest environmental quality can be used as part of the climate change mitigation strategy. A key question involving the potential use of forests to store more carbon as part of climate change…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fenton, Bergeron
Question: What are the drivers of bryophyte succession in paludifying boreal Picea mariana forests? Location: The Clay-Belt of Quebec and Ontario, Canada. Methods: The bryophyte community and habitat variables (forest floor thickness, water table, stand density, canopy openness…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kafka, Hirsch, Parisien, Flannigan
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
There were 2 phases to this Research Project Summary: a fuels study and a prescribed fire study. For the fuels study, 34 study sites were located in western (n=10), central (n=16), and southern (n=8) regions of the Mojave Desert in southeastern California. Sites were >50 m…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hauser
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hauser
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hauser
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hauser
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Lentile, Bobbitt, Hudak
To appropriately use remote sensing methods to elucidate ecological processes, one is required to mechanistically relate actual surface processes; such as changes in reflectance, surface temperature, or fractional cover; to real indicators of ecosystem condition (Lentile et al.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Federal wildland fire management programs have readily embraced the practice of fuel treatment. Wildland fire risk is quantified as expected annual loss ($ yr-1 or $ yr-1 ac-1). Fire risk at a point on the landscape is a function of the probability of burning at that point, the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renner, Reams, Haines
The growth of residential communities within forest areas throughout the country, and particularly in the West, has increased the danger to life and property from uncontrolled wildfire. The conflict of permanent residential settlements built next to a fire-adapted ecosystem has…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Brien
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES