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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wirth, Lichstein, Dushoff, Chen, Chapin
Local distributions of black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) are largely determined by edaphic and topographic factors in the interior of Alaska, with black spruce dominant on moist permafrost sites and white spruce dominant on drier upland sites. Given…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Estimating post-fire organic soil depth in the Alaskan boreal forest using the Normalized Burn Ratio
As part of a long-term moose browse/fire severity study, we used the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) with historic Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery to estimate fire severity from a 1983 wildfire in interior Alaska. Fire severity was estimated in the field by measuring the depth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner, Huang, Hart
Changes in estimated standing stocks of carbon (C) in vegetation, forest floor, dead wood, and mineral soil for the fire and fire surrogate (FFS) network sites were evaluated in relation to the application of prescribed fire, mechanical treatments designed as surrogates for…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson, Zavaleta, Chapin
Rural communities in the northern boreal forest depend on a suite of wild species for subsistence, including large game animals, furbearers, fish, and plants. Fire is one of the primary ecological disturbances and determinants of landscape pattern in the northern boreal forest.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Enninful, Torvi
A numerical model of heat transfer in dry soil was developed to predict temperatures and depth of lethal heat penetration during cone calorimeter tests used to simulate wildland fire exposures. The model was used to compare predictions made using constant and temperature-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Verbyla, Kasischke, Hoy
The maximum solar elevation is typically less than 50 degrees in the Alaskan boreal region and solar elevation varies substantially during the growing season. Because of the relatively low solar elevation at boreal latitudes, the effect of topography on spectral reflectance can…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoy, French, Turetsky, Trigg, Kasischke
Satellite remotely sensed data of fire disturbance offers important information; however, current methods to study fire severity may need modifications for boreal regions. We assessed the potential of the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) and other spectroscopic indices…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Murphy, Reynolds, Koltun
During the 2004 fire season ~6.6 million acres (~2.7 million ha) burned across Alaska. Nearly 2 million of these were on National Wildlife Refuge System lands inaccessible from the state's limited road system. Many fires burned through September, driven by unusually warm and dry…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burton, Parisien, Hicke, Hall, Freeburn
The present study undertook a hierarchical analysis of the variability within and among some individual fire events in the boreal ecozones of Canada and Alaska. When stratified by ecozone, differences in the spatial and temporal distribution of wildfires were observed in the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mack, Treseder, Manies, Harden, Schuur, Vogel, Randerson, Chapin
Plant biomass accumulation and productivity are important determinants of ecosystem carbon (C) balance during post-fire succession. In boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) forests near Delta Junction, Alaska, we quantified aboveground plant biomass and net primary productivity (…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Omi
Wildfires continue to burn in the US despite rising concerns for the costs and losses associated with recurrent fire episodes. Prescribed fire and other fuel treatments have been proposed as potential solutions to US fire problems, though fire hazard reduction through fuels…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, Lusk
This manual targets fire management staff and is designed to summarize the links between fire management and invasive plant invasions and management. It also provides practical guidelines that fire managers should consider with respect to invasive plants. Minimum recommendations…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutto, Conway, Saab, Walters
Bird species that specialize in the use of burned forest conditions can provide insight into the prehistoric fire regimes associated with the forest types that they have occupied over evolutionary time. The nature of their adaptations reflects the specific post-fire conditions…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts
Fire regimes and vegetation structure and composition form a direct feedback loop, where fire regimes shape patterns in the vegetation and vegetation affects fire regime attributes. For decades, researchers focused their attention on the essential relationships between fire and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud
Federal land management agencies have spent tens of millions of dollars on post-fire emergency watershed stabilization measures intended to minimize flood runoff, peakflows, onsite erosion, offsite sedimentation, and other hydrologic damage to natural habitats, roads, bridges,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouhar, Smith, Sutherland
Considerable experimental and theoretical work has been done on general concepts regarding nonnative species and disturbance, but experimental research on the effects of fire on nonnative invasive species is sparse. We begin this chapter by connecting fundamental concepts from…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Williams, Bradstock
In the last decade, extensive fires have occurred on most continents, affecting a wide range of ecosystems. We convened a Symposium at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in 2006 to address the issue of large fires and their ecological consequences in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouhar, Munger, Smith
The potential for nonnative, invasive plants to alter an ecosystem depends on species traits, ecosystem characteristics, and the effects of disturbances, including fire. This study identifies gaps in science-based knowledge about the relationships between fire and nonnative…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sutherland
Monitoring, as defined by Elzinga and others (1998), is 'the collection and analysis of repeated observations or measurements to evaluate changes in condition and progress towards meeting a management objective.' Analyses of monitoring data may indicate that a project is meeting…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
This volume synthesizes scientific information about interactions between fire and nonnative invasive plants in wildlands of the United States. If the subject were clear and simple, this volume would be short; obviously, it is not. Relationships between fire and nonnative…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
Fire is a process integral to the functioning of most temperate wildland ecosystems. Lightning-caused and anthropogenic fires have influenced the vegetation of North America profoundly for millennia (Brown and Smith 2000; Pyne 1982b). In some cases, fire has been used to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keane, Agee, Fulé, Keeley, Key, Kitchen, Miller, Schulte
The perception is that today's large fires are an ecological catastrophe because they burn vast areas with high intensities and severities. However, little is known of the ecological impacts of large fires on both historical and contemporary landscapes. The present paper…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rice, Smith
It may be impossible to overstate the complexity of relationships among wildland ecosystems, fires, and nonnative invasives. Strategies for managing these relationships are similarly complex; they require information on local plant phenology, ability to produce various levels of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
He, Keane, Iverson
Forest landscape models have become important tools for understanding large-scale and long-term landscape (spatial) processes such as climate change, fire, windthrow, seed dispersal, insect outbreak, disease propagation, forest harvest, and fuel treatment, because controlled…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES