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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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De Baets, Van De Weg, Lewis, Steinberg, Meersmans, Quine, Shaver, Hartley
Rapid warming in Arctic ecosystems is resulting in increased frequency of disturbances such as fires, changes in the distribution and productivity of different plant communities, increasing thaw depths in permafrost soils and greater nutrient availability, especially nitrogen.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman
Forest succession on north slopes in interior Alaska results in the development of sphagnum bogs on sites formerly occupied by productive forest. This process is one of gradual deterioration of site associated with the accumulation of moss layers on the forest floor. Advancing…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brink, Dean
Feeding trials from Nov. 1962 through June 1963, in an outdoor enclosure in Alaska, showed that red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) can survive for 3 weeks and possibly more, solely on Picea glauca seed, consuming ca. 144 cones/day/squirrel, but they thrive poorly on P.…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knight
Burning experiments conducted in the labortory indicated a 25-64 per cent loss of nitrogen from the forest floor at temperatures of 300-700ºC. Burning increased the nitrogen concentration of the residual material, but the total amount of nitrogen decreased. This may explain the…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hoy, Turetsky, Kasischke
Much recent research has investigated the effects of burning on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forests in interior Alaska, however little research has focused on how frequent reburning affects soil organic layer (SOL) vulnerability in these ecosystems. We compared organic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loranty, Lieberman-Cribbin, Berner, Natali, Goetz, Alexander, Kholodov
In arctic tundra and boreal forest ecosystems vegetation structural and functional influences on the surface energy balance can strongly influence permafrost soil temperatures. As such, vegetation changes will likely play an important role in permafrost soil carbon dynamics and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kalies, Haubensak, Finkral
Forest management can have substantial impacts on ecosystem carbon storage, but those effects can vary significantly with management type and species composition. We used systematic review methodology to identify and synthesize effects of thinning and/or burning, timber…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt
Climate Change Implications for Wildfire in Alaska presented by Randi Jandt. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lukenbach, Devito, Kettridge, Petrone, Waddington
Wildfire is the largest disturbance affecting northern peatlands; however, little is known about how burn severity (organic soil depth of burn) alters post-fire hydrological conditions that control the recovery of keystone peatland mosses (i.e. Sphagnum). For this reason, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS