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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kurz, Apps
The Canadian boreal forest is comprised largely of even-aged stands that for millennia have undergone cycles of disturbance (i.e., fires or insect-induced stand mortality) and regrowth. Previous studies of regional-scale carbon (C) budgets have assumed that, when averaged over a…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kalinin
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Johnson, Bourgeau-Chavez, Frick, Ustin
The large size, remoteness, and temporal variability in occurrence of wildfires in boreal forest regions make remote sensing techniques well suited for monitoring and studying wildfire. The goal of this paper is two-fold: First, to illustrate how different remote sensing systems…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg, Stocks, Lynham
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cofer, Winstead, Stocks, Cahoon, Goldammer, Levine
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cofer, Winstead, Stocks, Overbay, Goldammer, Cahoon, Levine
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palm, Swift, Woomer
Studies of shifting cultivation and other slash-and-burn systems over the past 30 years have basically confirmed the conceptual model of carbon and nutrient cycling put forth by Nye and Greenland. The model stresses that soil biological processes should not be viewed in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinker, Ingram, Struwe
Tropical forest felling can be for the purpose of traditional shifting cultivation, after which forest is re-established, or for permanent land-use change, which is defined as deforestation. Recent decades have seen a dramatic increase in tropical deforestation caused by slash-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Villanueva-Díaz, McPherson
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neary, Overby, Gottfried, Perry
Fires can produce a wide range of changes in nutrient cycles of forest, shrub, and grassland ecosystems depending on fire severity, fire frequency, vegetation, and climate. These changes can be beneficial when fires increase the availability of plant nutrients, and deleterious…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Charney, McCutchan, Benoit
The authors first review a system for specifying monthly mean anomalies of midday temperature (T), dew-point (D), and wind speed (W) at a large network of surface stations across the United States. Multiple regression equations containing approximately three terms were derived…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnston, Elliott
Plant species composition and community structure were compared among 4 sites in an upland (boreal) black spruce (Picea mariana) community in NW Ontario. One site had remained undisturbed since the 1930s and 3 had been disturbed by either logging, fire, or both logging and fire…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hammond, Yarie
Temperature and precipitation data from weather stations in Alaska and western Canada were analyzed via universal kriging to estimate mean annual and mean growing season temperature and mean annual and mean growing season precipitation values on a 10 km grid in Alaska. These…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haggstrom, Kelleyhouse
Wildlife diversity and abundance are directly tied to the ever changing nature of the boreal forest. Wildland fire and fluvial action have been primarily responsible for maintaining diversity and productivity. However, there is an increasing need to protect people, human…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Harell
Studies of ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery have shown that fire scars in Alaskan forests are significantly brighter (3-6 dB) than surrounding unburned forest. The signature varies seasonally and changes as vegetation re-establishes on the site over longer time…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Swetnam, Berg
Tree ring patterns in white spruce (Picea glauca) and Sitka spruce (P. sitchensis) from 6 sites on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska document a widespread disturbance that killed overstory trees between 1880 and 1920. During this period 18-80% of trees in sampled stands record a ring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belyea, Warner
We examined short-term (decadal) and long-term (millenial) processes of peat accumulation, and the links between them, in a Sphagnum bog in continental Canada. A previously published model of bog growth was fitted to age profiles of the oxic acrotelm (surface, <60 cm thick)…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Korhola, Virkanen, Tikkanen, Blom
1 The effects of catchment fire on lake Pieni Majaslampi are examined by means of geochemical, charcoal, pollen, and diatom analyses of surface sediments. Particular emphasis is paid to pH responses in this naturally acid, weakly buffered, small-catchment lake. 2 An increase of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knicker, Almendros, Gonzalez-Vila, Martin, Ludemann
Sructural changes in lignocellulosic biomass heated under conitions comparable to those encountered in several types of natural or planned burnings have been studied by solid-state 13C- and 15N-CPMAS NMR spectroscopy of 15N-MNR spectra of biomass subjected to severe heating…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kurz, Apps, Comeau, Trofymow
The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS2) is a national-scale model of forest sector carbon (C) pools and fluxes. This model has been applied to conduct a retrospective analysis of the C budget of the forests of British Columbia for the period 1920- 1989.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
Some soils with permafrost thawed deeply and become drier after forest fires, while others changed little. Soils with permafrost on the coldest and wettest landscape positions (concave to plane, lower slope positions, and north-facing midslopes) usually failed to thaw deeply…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mazurek, Laterza, Newman, Daum, Cofer, Levine, Winstead
In this study we examine the molecular organic constituents (C8 to C40 lipid compounds) collected as smoke particles from a Canadian boreal forest prescribed burn. Of special interest are (1) the molecular identity of polar organic aerosols, and (2) the amount of polar organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES