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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Werner, Holsten, Matsuoka, Burnside
From 1920 to 1989, approximately 847,000 ha of Alaska spruce (Picea spp.) forests were infested by spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis). From 1990 to 2000, an extensive outbreak of spruce beetles caused mortality of spruce across 1.19 million ha of forests in Alaska;…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vedrova, Pleshikov, Kaplunov
The study was carried out in the Turukhansk Research Station of Yenisei Transect (65 deg 46'N, 89 deg 25'E). Larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.) is the dominant overstory tree species. The research has been conducted on four permanent test plots in same-age mature (110-year old…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van der Wal
Range expansion and increasing densities of large herbivores are held responsible for large-scale habitat degradation in a wide range of natural and semi-natural ecosystems. Herbivore-driven ecosystem changes frequently represent predictable transitions from one vegetation state…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valendik, Brissette, Kisilyakhov, Lasko, Verkhovets, Eubanks, Kosov, Lantukh
Mechanical treatment and prescribed fire were used to restore a mixed conifer stand (Picea-Abies-Pinus) following mortality from an outbreak of Siberian moth (Dendrolimus superans sibiricus). Moth-killed stands often become dominated by Calamagrostis, a sod-forming grass. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tape, Sturm, Racine
One expected response to climate warming in the Arctic is an increase in the abundance and extent of shrubs in tundra areas. Repeat photography shows that there has been an increase in shrub cover over the past 50 years in northern Alaska. Using 202 pairs of old and new oblique…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suring, Goldstein, Howell, Nations
Understanding the dynamics of berry productivity provides significant insight for managing the landscape to maintain ecosystem functions. On the Kenai Peninsula, as many as 14 mammal and 30 bird species commonly feed on berries produced by shrubs and forbs associated with spruce…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Alexander, Wotton, Stefner, Flannigan, Taylor, Lavoie, Mason, Hartley, Maffey, Dalrymple, Blake, Cruz, Lanoville
The referencing of the y- and x-axes in the caption to Fig. 6 on p. 1557 of this paper was inadvertently transposed. The y-axis pertains to the predictions and the x-axis relates to the observed forward spread rates.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schieck, Song
Within boreal forests of western North America, the dominant large-scale natural disturbance is wildfire. Thus, harvesting that is as similar as possible to fire is expected to best maintain natural bird communities. We reviewed studies of birds (mainly grouse, woodpeckers, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Samuels, Badadur, Monteith, Amstutz, Pickus, Parker, Ryan
This project involved the development of an information tool that gives Incident Commanders the critical information they need to make informed decisions regarding the consequences of threats to public water supply intakes.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Olson, Adams, Dale, Joly, Henkelman, Collins, Starfield
Caribou are an integral component of high-latitude ecosystems and represent a major subsistence food source for many northern people. The availability and quality of winter habitat is critical to sustain these caribou populations. Caribou commonly use older spruce woodlands with…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stark, Arsenault, Bradfield
Relationships between soil seed banks and aboveground understory vegetation were examined in dry Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Beissn.) Franco) forests near Kamloops, British Columbia, to compare the effects of different disturbance types (low and high severity fires and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riordan, Verbyla, McGuire
Over the past 50 years, Alaska has experienced a warming climate with longer growing seasons, increased potential evapotranspiration, and permafrost warming. Research from the Seward Peninsula and Kenai Peninsula has demonstrated a substantial landscape-level trend in the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randerson, Liu, Flanner, Chambers, Jin, Hess, Pfister, Mack, Treseder, Welp, Chapin, Harden, Goulden, Lyons, Neff, Schuur, Zender
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Preston, Schmidt
The carbon (C) cycle in boreal regions is strongly influenced by fire, which converts biomass and detrital C mainly to gaseous forms (CO2 and smaller proportions of CO and CH4), and some 1-3% of mass to pyrogenic C (PyC). PyC is mainly produced as solid charred residues,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Larkin, Nikolov
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
The timing of white spruce regeneration in aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.)-white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) boreal mixedwood stands is an important factor in stand development. We examined boreal mixedwood stands representing a 59-year period of time since fire and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Petrone, Hinzman, Jones, Shibata, Boone
Permafrost and fire are important regulators of hydrochemistry and landscape structure in the discontinuous permafrost region of interior Alaska. We examined the influence of permafrost and a prescribed burn on concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pearce, Venier
International and Canadian national and provincial level policy have proposed the use of criteria and indicators to examine the sustainability of renewable resource management. Species suitable as ecological indicators are those whose biology are sensitive to disturbance and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parker, Clancy, Mathiasen
1 Natural and recurring disturbances caused by fire, native forest insects and pathogens have interacted for millennia to create and maintain forests dominated by seral or pioneering species of conifers in the interior regions of the western United States and Canada. 2 Changes…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Rupp, Little
Prolonged drought, high temperatures and frequent lightning contributed to wildland fires in interior Alaska that covered 11.2 million acres in 2004 and 2005, the largest and third largest areas burned sincerecords began in 1950. Structures and developments in over 20…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill, Richter, Kasischke
Boreal forests are highly susceptible to wildfire, and post-fire changes in soil temperature and moisture have the potential to transform large areas of the landscape from a net sink to a net source of carbon (C). Understanding the ecological controls that regulate these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nikolov, Zeller
Canopy leaf area index (LAI) is an important structural parameter of the vegetation controlling pollutant uptake by terrestrial ecosystems. This paper presents a computationally efficient algorithm for retrieval of vegetation LAI and canopy clumping factor from satellite data…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nakano, Takeuchi, Inoue, Fukuda, Yasuoka
Temporal variations in methane (CH4) exchange between the soil and the atmosphere during a period of 3 years after a forest fire were estimated by combining field measurements of CH4 flux with an analysis of satellite images. The study area was located in a boreal peat swamp…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky, Harden, Friedli, Flannigan, Payne, Crock, Radke
With climate change rapidly affecting northern forests and wetlands, mercury reserves once protected in cold, wet soils are being exposed to burning, likely triggering large releases of mercury to the atmosphere. We quantify organic soil mercury stocks and burn areas across…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohlson, Korbal, Okland
We present a spatial and quantitative analysis of the macroscopic charcoal record in 11 forested peat basins in a boreal forest landscape in southeast Norway. The areas of the basins ranged from 200 to 6400 m2 and our study is based on 247 peat sequences that were sampled from…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES