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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hawkes
The southwest Yukon is currently experiencing a widespread outbreak of spruce bark beetle, creating an extensive area of standing dead trees. With the increased level of fire risk, monitoring fuel treatment effectiveness, especially in terms of reducing crown fire spread, has…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Shrestha, Chen
Carbon (C) in the forest floor (FF) of the boreal region is an important reservoir of terrestrial C. We examined the effects of stand age and disturbance type (clearcutting vs. wildfire) on quantity and quality of organic C of FF in a boreal mixedwood forest of central Canada.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Kaduk, Baltzer, Wooster, Mottram, Hartley, Lynham, Studens, Curry, Stocks
To fully understand the carbon (C) cycle impacts of forest fires, both C emissions during the fire and post-disturbance fluxes need to be considered. The latter are dominated by soil surface CO2 flux (Fs), which is still subject to large uncertainties. Fire is generally regarded…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hagemann, Moroni, Gleißner, Makeschin
Large amounts (389 ± A 39 m3 ha-1) of preserved dead wood buried by bryophytes were found in the organic layer (OL) of overmature (146- to 204-year-old) black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) forests in the high-boreal forest of eastern Canada. Stand-replacing wildfires…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
In forests, termites serve as ''soil engineers,'' translocating mineral soil to the surface, constructing macropores to improve water infiltration, increase soil minerals and organic carbon, facilitate the growth of microbes and affect the growth of vegetation. The future…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allison, Gartner, Mack, McGuire, Treseder
Boreal forests are an important source of wood products, and fertilizers could be used to improve forest yields, especially in nutrient poor regions of the boreal zone. With climate change, fire frequencies may increase, resulting in a larger fraction of the boreal landscape…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yuan, Chen
Variation in plant N resorption may change with stand development because plants tend to adjust their ecophysiological traits with aging. In addition, changes in soil nitrogen (N) pools associated with stand development may also affect plant N resorption. Here, we examined green…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS