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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Peterson, Hyer, Wang
A statistical model, based on numerical weather prediction (NWP), is developed to predict the subsequent day's satellite observations of fire activity in the North American boreal forest during the fire season (24-h forecast). In conjunction with the six components of the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nossov, Jorgenson, Kielland, Kanevskiy
Discontinuous permafrost in the North American boreal forest is strongly influenced by the effects of ecological succession on the accumulation of surface organic matter, making permafrost vulnerable to degradation resulting from fire disturbance. To assess factors affecting…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson
Lichens play many important roles in subarctic terrestrial ecosystems by fixing nitrogen, colonizing rock and gravel, stabilizing otherwise bare soil, adding significantly to vegetation biodiversity and serving as the primary food for caribou in the winter. In these chapters, I…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Makoto, Tani, Kamata
Abstract Alaskan spruce forests are exposed to both fire and spruce beetles [Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)]. To understand the influence of spruce beetles on the process through which fire affects ecosystem function, we developed a reconstruction technique to measure prefire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toledo, Sorice, Kreuter
Fire suppression in grassland systems that are adapted to episodic fire has contributed to the recruitment of woody species in grasslands worldwide. Even though the ecology of restoring these fire prone systems back to grassland states is becoming clearer, a major hurdle to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Sokolik
We investigate the influence of wildfire smoke aerosols on cloud microphysics and precipitation using a coupled aerosol-cloud microphysics-meteorology model WRF-Chem-SMOKE. The Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm products are used to compute 'online' hourly size- and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loboda, French, Hight-Harf, Jenkins
Observed warming in the high northern latitudes has led to an increase in fire occurrence across North American tundra. Our ability to effectively monitor ecosystem change and the carbon cycle in this region depends upon the development of robust and reliable methods of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lloyd, Duffy, Mann
Ongoing warming at high latitudes is expected to lead to large changes in the structure and function of boreal forests. Our objective in this research is to determine the climatic controls over the growth of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) at the warmest driest margins…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, van Dijk, McCabe, Evans, de Jeu
Aim: Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is an indicator of the water content of both woody and leaf components in terrestrial aboveground vegetation biomass that can be derived from passive microwave remote sensing. VOD is distinct from optical vegetation remote sensing data such as…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In October, the 12th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit in Sydney, Australia brought together students of fire from all over the world to explore new approaches in wildland fire safety. Participants attended from the USA, Switzerland, Hong Kong, France, New Zealand and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelly, Chipman, Higuera, Stefanova, Brubaker, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for elucidating boreal fire regime dynamics under changing climate, because fire return intervals and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Amiro, Barger, French, Goetz, Grosse, Harmon, Hicke, Liu, Masek
Because it is an important regulator of terrestrial carbon cycling in North America, extensive research on natural and human disturbances has been carried out as part of the North American Carbon Program and the CarboNA project. A synthesis of various components of this research…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Kimball, Jones
The rate of vegetation recovery from boreal wildfire influences terrestrial carbon cycle processes and climate feedbacks by affecting the surface energy budget and land-atmosphere carbon exchange. Previous forest recovery assessments using satellite optical-infrared normalized…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Breen, Gaglioti, Mann, Rocha, Grosse, Arp, Kunz, Walker
Characteristics of the natural fire regime are poorly resolved in the Arctic, even though fire may play an important role cycling carbon stored in tundra vegetation and soils to the atmosphere. In the course of studying vegetation and permafrost-terrain characteristics along a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jafarov, Romanovsky, Genet, McGuire, Marchenko
Fire is an important factor controlling the composition and thickness of the organic layer in the black spruce forest ecosystems of interior Alaska. Fire that burns the organic layer can trigger dramatic changes in the underlying permafrost, leading to accelerated ground thawing…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jackson, Nilsson, Wardle
Feather mosses form a thick ground layer in boreal forests that can intercept incoming litter fall. This interception may influence the decomposition of incoming litter but this has been little explored. We investigated how the moss layer influences decomposition of intercepted…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Iwata, Ueyama, Iwama, Harazono
Absorption of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) by vegetation was observed in two burned black spruce forests, one and seven years after wildfire, in interior Alaska along with several vegetation properties. This study considered PAR absorption by mosses by examining the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Liu, Dahal, Jin, Welp, Liu, Liu
In interior Alaska, wildfires change gross primary production (GPP) after the initial disturbance. The impact of fires on GPP is spatially heterogeneous, which is difficult to evaluate by limited point-based comparisons or is insufficient to assess by satellite vegetation index…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Jin, Dahal, Chen, Young, Liu, Liu
Land surface change caused by fires and succession is confounded by many site-specific factors and requires further study. The objective of this study was to reveal the spatially explicit land surface change by minimizing the confounding factors of weather variability, seasonal…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Naughton
Climate warming is causing the frequency, extent, and severity of natural disturbances to increase. To develop innovative approaches for mitigating the potential negative social consequences of such increases, research is needed investigating how people perceive and respond to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grimm, Chapin, Bierwagen, Gonzalez, Groffman, Luo, Melton, Nadelhoffer, Pairis, Raymond, Schimel, Williamson
Recent climate-change research largely confirms the impacts on US ecosystems identified in the 2009 National Climate Assessment and provides greater mechanistic understanding and geographic specificity for those impacts. Pervasive climate-change impacts on ecosystems are those…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Genet, McGuire, Barrett, Breen, Euskirchen, Johnstone, Kasischke, Melvin, Bennett, Mack, Rupp, Schuur, Turetsky, Yuan
There is a substantial amount of carbon stored in the permafrost soils of boreal forest ecosystems, where it is currently protected from decomposition. The surface organic horizons insulate the deeper soil from variations in atmospheric temperature. The removal of these…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frey
While boreal forest habitats have historically been relatively free from invasive plants, there have been recent increases in the diversity and range of invasive plants in Alaska. It is critical that we understand how disturbances influence invasibility in northern boreal…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buma, Brown, Donato, Fontaine, Johnstone
Climatic change is anticipated to alter disturbance regimes for many ecosystems. Among the most important effects are changes in the frequency, size, and intensity of wildfires. Serotiny (long-term canopy storage and the heat-induced release of seeds) is a fire-resilience…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bret-Harte, Mack, Shaver, Huebner, Johnston, Mojica, Pizano, Reiskind
Fire causes dramatic short-term changes in vegetation and ecosystem function, and may promote rapid vegetation change by creating recruitment opportunities. Climate warming likely will increase the frequency of wildfire in the Arctic, where it is not common now. In 2007, the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES