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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ferguson
Fires in the northern interior have long been known to smolder for long periods. Because emission rates from smoldering smoke are small in comparison to rates of emissions during flaming, however, and because it is difficult to monitor smoldering fires, there are few…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Bluhm, Morse
Fire severity map of prescribed burn based on interpretation of aerial stereo photography at 1' to 500' scale.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Meyers
Land managers in Alaska need information on lichen regeneration timelines specific to their region to establish sound fire management guidelines for caribou winter range. North American caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds are largely dependent on lichens for winter forage. Winter…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
[From lead-in] Although there are many other fire behavior knowledge gaps and research needs that I could list here (e.g., development of models or guidelines for predicting fire vortex generation, plume-dominated or convectively dominated fires and safety zone size/…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Stocks, Wotton
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on forest fires and describes how this, in turn, will impact on the forests of the United States. In addition to reviewing existing studies on climate change and forest fires we have used two transient general circulation models…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fox, Riebau
The TASET project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program to develop a structured analysis of smoke management and to recommend specific developments for advancing the state of science in this field. The structured analysis was conducted by determining specific information…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Project Objectives: Land managers and researchers from the Department of Agriculture (Forest Service), Department of Interior (National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management), and universities will work collaboratively to complete the design of an…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Kurz, Reinhardt
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
The threat of life and property losses related to wildfires is a significant issue for federal, state, and local fire and planning agencies who consider the mix of residential areas and wildlands. The wildland fire threat is part of the more general consideration of human…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute strives to provide scientific leadership in developing and applying the knowledge necessary to sustain wilderness ecosystems and values. Since its 1993 dedication, researchers at this federal, interagency Institute have collaborated…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Cannell, Friend
A dynamic, global vegetation model, hybrid v4.1 (Ecological Modelling, 95, 249-287 (1997)), was driven by transient climate output from the UK Hadley Centre GCM (HadCM2) with the IS92a scenario of increasing atmospheric CO2 equivalent, sulfate aerosols and predicted patterns of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, O'Neill, French
A microwave backscattering model for shrub clumps was presented. The modelling approach was to treat the clumps as scatterers and attenuators. Three major model components were defined: surface backscattering, clump volume scattering, and multiple path interactions between…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thorburn, MacMillan, Alexander
Interactive multimedia technology has been utilized in the development of a CD-ROM based wildland fire safety training course, Wildland Fire-Safety on the Fireline. Interactive multimedia technology allows delivery of training to a large number of students on a consistent basis…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sofronov, Shvidenko, Goldammer, Volokitina
Data are presented on the annual area of fires by vegetation zones in Northern Eurasia (i.e. Russia), with data on the amounts of biomass burned, and the amounts of standing and fallen rotten wood present on burns at various times after fires. In order to evaluate and predict…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sofronov, Volokitina, Kajimoto, Matsuura, Uemura
In the northern part of central Siberia (67-72 degrees N), forest vegetation develops on soil with a thin active layer of permafrost (less than 1 m), where the tree canopy is sparse irrespective of the stand density. This almost excludes competition for light and the leading…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saatchi, Moghaddam
Characterization of boreal forests in ecosystem models requires temporal and spatial distributions of water content and biomass over local and regional scales. In this paper, we report on the use of a semi-empirical algorithm for deriving these parameters from polarimetric…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Starfield, Chapin
An important challenge in global-change research is to stimulate short-term transient changes in climate, disturbance regime, and recruitment that drive long-term vegetation distributions. Spatial features (e.g., topographic barriers) and processes, including disturbance…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rupp, Chapin, Starfield
Understanding the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climatic warming is a challenge because of the complex interactions of climate, disturbance, and recruitment across the landscape. We use a spatially explicit model (ALFRESCO) to simulate the transient response of subarctic…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waddington, Roulet
Measurements of the spatial variability of methane (CH4) emissions, net CO2 ecosystem exchange (NEE), and dissolved carbon (CH4, CO2, and DOC) were made in a boreal patterned peatland in northern Sweden in the summers (May to September) of 1992 and 1993. Carbon balance terms…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ottmar, Bluhm, Alvarado
FrostFire is a major field experiment and modeling effort to study the role of fire in boreal forests as a global change feedback and simultaneously provide fire managers with an improved capacity to predict fire severity based on meteorological conditions. The centerpiece of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prokushkin, Sorokin, Tsvetkov
A micro-ecosystem approach was used to study the changes in the edaphic conditions after a medium-intensity ground fire in ca. 120 ha of larch (Larix gmelinii) forest in Evenkia (N. central Siberia). Data are presented on micro-relief, permafrost, recovery of ground vegetation,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prescott, Maynard, Laiho
Organic matter is of primary importance to the sustainability of long-term site productivity in forest ecosystems. In boreal forests, organic matter accumulates at the surface as mor humus. This may represent a substantial portion of the total nutrient capital of a site, and its…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peltzer, Bast, Wilson, Gerry
We determined the abundance and diversity of vascular plants in seven types of disturbance in mixed-wood boreal forest. Disturbance treatments included wildfire, natural regeneration after harvest and several methods of silvicultural site preparation. Relative to undisturbed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette, Bhiry, Delwaide, Simard
The lichen woodland is one of the most important forest ecosystems in North America, dominating the central part of the boreal forest. The southernmost lichen woodland is paradoxically in the heart of the southern boreal forest. This distribution prompted this study aiming to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nilsson, Zackrisson, Sterner, Wallstedt
The purpose of the study was to characterize the relative competitive and phytotoxic potential of 2 closely related dwarf-shrub species, Empetrum nigrum and E. hermaphroditum, which form clones in a mosaic pattern in post-fire successions of the boreal forest of northern Sweden…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES