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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Boulanger, Sirois
Saproxylic succession in fire-killed black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.] coarse woody debris (CWD) in northern Quebec is estimated in this study using a 29-yr postfire chrono-sequence. Sampling was performed using both trunk-window traps and rearing from snag and log…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Perin
To facilitate delivery and use of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project's (Project) products, the Project team engaged in a series of technology transfer activities throughout the life of the project. These included bringing land managers into the design…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bergeron, Drapeau, Gauthier, Lecomte
Several concepts are at the basis of forest ecosystem management, but a relative consensus exists around the idea of a forest management approach that is based on natural disturbances and forest dynamics. This type of approach aims to reproduce the main attributes of natural…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benoy, Cash, McCauley, Wrona
Water-covered lands comprise approximately 30% of the total area of the world's boreal forest biome. Most of these lands are peatlands (i.e., bogs and fens), which store over half of the total carbon in the biome. Because climate warming threatens to alter the carbon stocks of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balzter, Gerard, George, Weedon, Grey, Los, Combal, Bartholome, Bartalev
An 18-yr time series of the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR) taken in by the green parts of vegetation data from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument series was analyzed for interannual variations in the start, peak…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balshi, McGuire, Zhuang, Melillo, Kicklighter, Kasischke, Wirth, Flannigan, Harden, Clein, Burnside, McAllister, Kurz, Apps, Shvidenko
Wildfire is a common occurrence in ecosystems of northern high latitudes, and changes in the fire regime of this region have consequences for carbon feedbacks to the climate system. To improve our understanding of how wildfire influences carbon dynamics of this region, we used…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyodo, Kusaka, Wardle, Nilsson
Background and Aim: Nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) isotopic signatures (δ15N and δ13C) serve as powerful tools for understanding temporal changes in ecosystem processes, but how these signatures change across boreal forest chronosequences is poorly understood. Methods: The δ15N,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shenoy, Kielland, Johnstone
Fire activity in the North American boreal region is projected to increase under a warming climate and trigger changes in vegetation composition. In black spruce forests of interior Alaska, fire severity impacts residual organic layer depth which is strongly linked to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McIver, Stephens, Agee, Barbour, Boerner, Edminster, Erickson, Farris, Fettig, Fiedler, Haase, Hart, Keeley, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, Moghaddas, Otrosina, Outcalt, Schwilk, Skinner, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Youngblood, Zack
The 12-site National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS) was a multivariate experiment that evaluated ecological consequences of alternative fuel-reduction treatments in seasonally dry forests of the US. Each site was a replicated experiment with a common design that compared an…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Betson, Johannisson, Lofvenius, Grip, Granström, Hogberg
We report an analysis of both the long- and short-term drivers of the carbon (C) isotope composition (delta C-13) values of current year needles of Pinus sylvestris L. linked to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations (c(a)) and climate using data from a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Myers-Smith, McGuire, Harden, Chapin
We measured CO2 and CH4 exchange from the center of a Sphagnum-dominated permafrost collapse, through an aquatic moat, and into a recently burned black spruce forest on the Tanana River floodplain in interior Alaska. In the anomalously dry growing season of 2004, both the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Polley, Briske, Morgan, Wolter, Bailey, Brown
The amplified “greenhouse effect” associated with increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases has increased atmospheric temperature by 1°C since industrialization (around 1750), and it is anticipated to cause an additional 2°C increase by mid-century. Increased biospheric…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar, Eberhardt, Andreu, Eagle, Swedin
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a software module that records wildland fuel characteristics and calculates potential fire behavior and hazard potentials based on input environmental variables. The FCCS 3.0 is housed within the Integrated Fuels Treatment…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santín, Doerr, Preston, Bryant
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) produced during vegetation fires represents one of the most degradation resistant organic carbon pools and has important implications for the global carbon cycle. Its long-term fate in the environment and the processes leading to its degradation are the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holden, Gutierrez, Treseder
Wildfires are a pervasive disturbance in boreal forests, and the frequency and intensity of boreal wildfires is expected to increase with climate warming. Boreal forests store a large fraction of global soil organic carbon (C), but relatively few studies have documented how…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A 2200-year record of permafrost dynamics and carbon cycling in a collapse-scar bog, Interior Alaska
Recent high-latitude warming is increasing the vulnerability of permafrost to thaw, which is amplified by local disturbances such as fire. However, the long-term ecological effects and carbon dynamics are not well understood. Here we present a 2200-year record of pollen, plant…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Attiwill, Binkley
In many parts of the world both the area and intensity of wild-land fires have increased alarmingly. Not only are fires increasing in number, but the nature of these fires is also changing. We see mega-fires of increasing size and intensity in many parts of the world including…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This report is a scientific assessment of the current condition and likely future condition of forest resources in the United States relative to climatic variability and change. It serves as the U.S. Forest Service forest sector technical report for the National Climate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Cary, Davies, Flannigan, Gardner, Lavorel, Lenihan, Li, Rupp
Wildland fire is a major disturbance in most ecosystems worldwide (Crutzen and Goldammer 1993). The interaction of fire with climate and vegetation over long time spans, often referred to as the fire regime (Agee 1993; Clark 1993; Swetnam and Baisan 1996; Swetnam 1997), has…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colman, Linn
HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a coupled atmosphere/wildfire behavior model based on conservation of mass, momentum, species, and energy. It combines a three-dimensional transport model that uses a compressible-gas fluid dynamics formulation with a physics-based wildfire model, to represent…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS