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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kochi, Donovan, Champ, Loomis
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kennedy, McKenzie
Fire-scarred trees provide a deep temporal record of historical fire activity, but identifying the mechanisms therein that controlled landscape fire patterns is not straightforward. We use a spatially correlated metric for fire co-occurrence between pairs of trees (the Sørensen…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kane, Hockaday, Turetsky, Masiello, Valentine, Finney, Baldock
There is still much uncertainty as to how wildfire affects the accumulation of burn residues (such as black carbon (BC)) in the soil, and the corresponding changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) composition in boreal forests. We investigated SOC and BC composition in black spruce…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Twieg, Ward, Barker, Durall, Simard
Summary1. Clearcut logging results in major changes in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities, but whether this results in the loss of key functional traits, such as those associated with nutrient acquisition from soil organic matter, is unknown. Furthermore, little is known about…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joly, Chapin, Klein
Lichens are an important winter forage for large, migratory herds of caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) that can influence population dynamics through effects on body condition and in turn calf recruitment and survival. We investigated the vegetative and physiographic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
America does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems. The policy of fire exclusion through most of the 20th century seemed successful at first but eventually lead to larger, more intense, and damaging fires. By the mid-1970s federal agencies pulled back from the fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Natural Areas Association Fire compendium compiles articles from the Natural Areas Journal from 1983 to 2009 that address some aspect of fire ecology or fire management. Some papers specifically focus on the effects of fire on a particular ecosystem or species, while in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mazza
In 2010, station researchers provided land managers and policymakers with critical information related to ecological processes, environmental threats, forest management, and use of natural resources. The station also capitalized on opportunities to expand its research in these…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This is a well-written polemic about the failure of fire policy and management in the United States. The book contains enough ecology and history for nonspecialists to understand the complexities of the policy and management dilemmas that we face today. The authors provide a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
This powerpoint presentation is a consortium overview for the first session of the 2nd Annual Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop held in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The goals for this workshop are to share new fire re-search findings, network and enhance communications across the fire community, and identify missing links in fire research in Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson
The Alaska Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Alaska. the goal is to provide 'one stop shopping' for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Chipman, Barnes, Rupp, Duffy, Urban
Charcoal deposits collected from lake sediment in Noatak and the Seward Peninsula were used to quantify fire return intervals in tundra ecosystems and examine the relationships between fire, vegetation, and climate.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyke, Brooks, D'Antonio
Wildfires change plant communities by reducing dominance of some species while enhancing the abundance of others. Detailed habitat-specific models have been developed to predict plant responses to fire, but these models generally ignore the breadth of fire regime characteristics…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Romanovsky, Turetsky
In the boreal forests of interior Alaska, feedbacks that link forest soils, fire characteristics, and plant traits have supported stable cycles of forest succession for the past 6000 years. This high resilience of forest stands to fire disturbance is supported by two…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gagnon, Passmore, Platt, Myers, Paine, Harms
Pyrogenic plants dominate many fire-prone ecosystems. Their prevalence suggests some advantage to their enhanced flammability, but researchers have had difficulty tying pyrogenicity to individual-level advantages. Based on our review, we propose that enhanced flammability in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin, Mack
Predicting plant community responses to changing environmental conditions is a key element of forecasting and mitigating the effects of global change. Disturbance can play an important role in these dynamics, by initiating cycles of secondary succession and generating…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butler, Goldstein
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, fire suppression still dominates planning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Sudden Oak Death Fourth Science Symposium provided a forum for current research on sudden oak death, caused by the exotic, quarantine pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum. Ninety submissions describing papers or posters on the following sudden oak death/P. ramorum topics are…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Fettig
This special issue of Forest Science features the national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a niultisite, multivariate research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates in seasonally dry forests of the United States…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fire scientists and managers at the 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress offer their thoughts about the program's accomplishments, challenges, and future direction.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earl, Alexander, Mack
Wildfires are a major natural disturbance in boreal forests of interior Alaska and play an important role in determining forest plant composition and productivity by influencing parameters such as nutrient availability, light transmission, and forest floor heterogeneity.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Bowden, Kling, Schuett, Kostrzewski, Kolden, Findlay
Increased fire frequency and severity are potentially important consequences of climate change in high latitude ecosystems. The 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire, which burned from July until October, is the largest recorded tundra fire from Alaska's north slope (approximately 1,000 km^…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Hockaday, Turetsky, Masiello, Valentine, Finney, Baldock
There is still much uncertainty as to how wildfire affects the accumulation of burn residues (such as black carbon (BC)) in the soil, and the corresponding changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) composition in boreal forests. We investigated SOC and BC composition in black spruce…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euskirchen, McGuire, Chapin, Rupp
In the boreal forests of Alaska, recent changes in climate have influenced the exchange of trace gases, water, and energy between these forests and the atmosphere. These changes in the structure and function of boreal forests can then feedback to impact regional and global…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES