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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Boles, Verbyla
Three satellite fire detection models (threshold, contextual, and fuel mask) were compared and evaluated using National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-11, NOAA-12, and NOAA-14 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer sensor data from interior Alaska. The…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard, Krausman, Boe, Cunningham, Whitlaw
There is a paucity of data concerning the effects of wildfires on large carnivores. During summer 1988 a wildfire burned 845 km2 of taiga forest within the territory of two radiocollared Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) packs in northwest Alaska. We contrasted their use of areas that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard
Many effects of forest management on northern soil environments are characteristic of other latitudes, as well. Nutrient removals in harvested timber are substantial, and on some sites this may influence not only the amount but also the balance of remaining plant-available…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carignan, D'Arcy, Lamontagne
Water quality was monitored in Boreal Shield lakes for 3 years following their simultaneous impact by clearcut logging or wildfire. Seventeen similar undisturbed lakes served as references. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the light attenuation coefficient (PAR) were up to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clinton, Vose, Knoepp, Elliott
Southern Appalachian forests are undergoing considerable change due to altered disturbance regimes. For example, fire exclusion has had a major impact on the structure and function of pine/hardwood ecosystems. Recently, fire has been used in a variety of applications; 1) stand-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cade-Menun, Berch, Preston, Lavkulich
When cedar-hemlock (CH) forests of northern Vancouver Island are clear-cut and replanted, growth of replanted trees is often poor. This growth check can be overcome with nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilization, suggesting that it may be because of deficiencies of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Coyea, Munson
In the North American boreal forest, black spruce (Picea mariana) forests have historically regenerated after the passage of large-scale wildfires. Over the past 30 years, tree harvesting has replaced wildfire as the predominant agent of disturbance in black spruce --…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Loftin
Woody perennials have invaded semiarid grasslands throughout the Southwestern United States. This invasion was coupled with decreased grass cover and increased runoff and soil erosion. Fire, which was a natural force that shaped and maintained the grasslands, is a management…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pan, Chen, Birdsey, McCullough, He, Deng
Most forests of the world are recovering from a past disturbance. It is well known that forest disturbances profoundly affect carbon stocks and fluxes in forest ecosystems, yet it has been a great challenge to assess disturbance impacts in estimates of forest carbon budgets. Net…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fan, Neff, Harden, Zhang, Veldhuis, Czimczik, Winston, O'Donnell
Soil water content strongly affects permafrost dynamics by changing the soil thermal properties. However, the movement of liquid water, which plays an important role in the heat transport of temperate soils, has been under-represented in boreal studies. Two different heat…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manies, Harden, Ottmar
This report describes the sample collection and processing for U.S. Geological Survey efforts at FROSTFIRE, an experimental burn that occurred in Alaska in 1999. Data regarding carbon, water, and energy dynamics pre-fire, during, and post-fire were obtained in this landscape-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Donnell, Harden, McGuire, Romanovsky
In the boreal region, soil organic carbon (OC) dynamics are strongly governed by the interaction between wildfire and permafrost. Using a combination of field measurements, numerical modeling of soil thermal dynamics, and mass-balance modeling of OC dynamics, we tested the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Donahue, Benscoter
For millennia, peatlands have served as an important sink for atmospheric CO2 and today represent a large soil carbon reservoir. While recent land use and wildfires have reduced carbon sequestration in tropical peatlands, the influence of disturbance on boreal peatlands is…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rocha, Shaver
Burned landscapes present several challenges to quantifying landscape carbon balance. Fire scars are composed of a mosaic of patches that differ in burn severity, which may influence postfire carbon budgets through damage to vegetation and carbon stocks. We deployed three eddy…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg, Bluhm
A total of 226 dispersed plots, and 126 intensive plots were classified before and after a prescribed burn, and assessed for biomass and burn severity.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson, Moore
Carbon and peat accumulation rates over the past 1200 yr were measured in relation to permafrost aggradation, maturity, ground fires, and degradation in a peatland with discontinuous permafrost near Fort Simpson, N.W.T., Canada. The White River volcanic ash layer, deposited 1200…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Trumbore, Stocks, Hirsch, Gower, O'Neill, Kasischke
To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long-term averages for C exchange in boreal forests near Thompson, Manitoba. Soil drainage as defined by water table, moss cover, and permafrost dynamics, is the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cote, Brown, Paré, Fyles, Bauhus
In the boreal mixed forest, stand composition generally changes from deciduous to mixed to coniferous stands during post-disturbance succession. Our objective was to determine the influence of forest composition on the quality of soil nitrogen and carbon as determined by C and N…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barber, Juday, Finney
The extension of growing season at high northern latitudes seems increasingly clear from satellite observations of vegetation extent and duration. This extension is also thought to explain the observed increase in amplitude in seasonal variations in atmospheric CO2…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valentine, Boone
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Innes, Beniston, Verstraete
This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop held in Wengen, Switzerland, in September 1998. A number of state-of-the-art papers are presented, which discuss scientific, technological and socio-economic issues related to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
From the text... 'Wildand-urban interface (W-UI) fires are a significant concern for federal, state, and local land management and fire agencies. research using modeling experiments, and W-UI case studies indicates that home ignitability during wildland fires depends on the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Wildland-urban interface (W-UI) fires are a significant concern for federal, state, and local land management and fire agencies. Research using modeling, experiments, and W-UI case studies indicates that home ignitability during wildland fires depends on the characteristics of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES