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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lyon, Huff, Telfer, Schreiner, Smith
The literature describing animals’ behavioral responses to fire, discussed in chapter 3, is limited. Furthermore, short-term responses do not provide insights about the vigor or sustainability of the species in an area. Studies of animal populations and communities are more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Huff, Smith
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lenihan, Sandberg, Neilson
The Joint Fire Science Program is funding the development of a new fuels characterization system for the contiguous United States and Alaska. The new system, based on Fuel Characteristic Classes (FCCs), will provide a broad range of realistic fuel property values at a level of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French, O'Neill, Richter, Bourgeau-Chavez, Harrell
The cold climate and resulting low decomposition rates in the ground layers of boreal forests (such as those found in interior Alaska) result in the development of deep organic soils. In turn, these soils have an important role in many physical, chemical, and biological…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
In summary, the sensitivety study presented in this chapter supports the overall theme of this book (i.e., that fires in the boreal forest play a central role in the exchange of carbon between this biome and the atmosphere). Through a series of processes, the continuing rise in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, O'Neill, French, Bourgeau-Chavez
As discussed in the introduction to this section, fire serves an important ecological role in the boreal forest, especially in those processes controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases with the atmosphere. One of the key requirements for quantifying…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks, O'Neill, French, Bourgeau-Chavez
Past approaches to estimating the amounts of carbon released during fires in boreal forests have depended on two types of data: 1) those collected during prescribed burns; or 2) those collected from limited number of points in naturally-occurring fires. Neither of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, O'Neill, Bourgeau-Chavez, French
The landmark paper of Seiler and Crutzen (1980) clearly laid out the scientific rational as to why the study of biomass burning was essential in terms of completely understanding greenhouse gasses emissions from the land surface to the atmosphere. While this analysis fueled…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huff, Smith
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grissom, Alexander, Cella, Cole, Kurth, Malotte, Martell, Mawdsley, Roessler, Quillin, Ward
Abstract from introduction: 'Over the next 50-100 years, the predicted doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to increase summer temperatures up to 4-6 degrees C at higher latitudes (Boer et al. 1992: Maxwell 1992: Ferguson 1995). In a 2 x CO2…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
González-Cabán
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Stocks, Mudd, Martell, Lee
In boreal forests, which contain large amounts of the world's terrestrial organic carbon, fire is a natural and fundamental disturbance regime essential in controlling many ecosystem processes. As a result of predicted climate change in the future, the fire regime and,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
France, Steedman, Lehmann, Peters
It has been recently suggested that droughts induced by climate warming reduce the catchment export of colour-forming, and therefore, UV-B protective, DOC to boreal lakes, which in turn may influence the health of resident biota. We determined that the concentration of DOC in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests. Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects. Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Houghton, Hackler, Lawrence
1 Areas burned annually in the United States between 1700 and 1990 were derived from published estimates of pre-European burning rates and from wildfire statistics of the US Forest Service. Changes in live and dead vegetation following fire and fire exclusion were determined for…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Flannigan, Corns
Changes in climatic conditions may influence both forest biomass accumulation rates and natural disturbance regimes. While changes in biomass accumulation of forests under various climatic conditions have been described by yield equations, large uncertainties exist with regard…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Flannigan
From the Introduction ... 'This chapter reviews the record of past and present North American boreal fire regimes at various time scales and how the relate to both climate and vegetation. From this review, we draw some possible conclusions regarding possible future fire regimes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: a multitechnique approach for improved understanding
Understanding terrestrial carbon metabolism is critical because terrestrial ecosystems play a major role in the global carbon cycle. Furthermore, humans have severely disrupted the carbon cycle in ways that will alter the climate system and directly affect terrestrial metabolism…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Giardina, Sanford, Døckersmith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Giardina, Sanford, Døckersmith, Jaramillo
The most commonly observed change in soil following slash-and-burn clearing of tropical forest is a short-term increase in nutrient availability. Studies of shifting cultivation commonly cite the incorporation of nutrient-rich ash from consumed aboveground biomass into soil as…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marsh, Arnone, Bormann, Gordon
Although plants of Equisetum spp. are generally thought to be of little value to ecosystems, as study of a cold-temperature Alaskan shrub wetland showed that they acquired and cycled phosphorus and other nutrients more efficiently than other plant community members. While…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Changes in terrestrial carbon storage in the United States. 1: The roles of agriculture and forestry
Changes in the areas of croplands and pastures, and rates of wood harvest in 7 regions of the USA, including Alaska, were derived from historical statistics for the period 1700-1990. These rates of land-use change were used in a cohort model, together with equations defining the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS