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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cushon, Ottmar, Sandberg, Greenough, Key
The development of more sophisticated fire behavior and effects models has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuel classification that more accurately captures the structural complexity and geographic diversity of fuelbeds. The Fire and Environmental Research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cunningham, Goodrick, Hussaini, Linn, Xia
Plumes from wildfires and prescribed fires represent a critical aspect of smoke management and air quality assessment, and as such it is important to understand the structure and dynamics of these plumes, both with respect to a basic understanding of the phenomena and with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chubarova, Prilepsky, Uliumdzhieva, Yurova, Zhmylev, Karpuhina, Riebau, Shoettle, Musselman, Potter, Rublev
July through September 2002 in Central Russia was characterized by severe fire smoke conditions that led to high concentrations of atmospheric aerosols and gaseous species. A combination of a unique meteorological regime exacerbated the occurrence of the fire events in Moscow…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bevins
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is based on a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. BehavePlus is the successor to the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system (Andrews 1986, Andrews and Chase 1989, Andrews…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goldammer
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, Chen
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pellerin, Lavoie
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergner, Johnstone, Treseder
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Durall, Cairney
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen, Allen, Egerton-Warburton, Corkidi, Gomez-Pompa
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kim, Tanaka
Flux measurements at sites of mixed hardwood and black spruce stands from an area (C4) of the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed (CPCRW), interior Alaska, in the summer seasons of 1998, 1999, and 2000 are used to estimate the fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O before and after…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaufman, Ichoku, Giglio, Korontzi, Chu, Hao, Li, Justice
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, launched on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra satellite at the end of 1999, was designed with 36 spectral channels for a wide array of land, ocean, and atmospheric investigations. MODIS has a…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Dale, Collins, Adams
The role of wildland fire in the winter habitat of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) has long been debated. Fire has been viewed as detrimental to caribou because it destroys the slow-growing climax forage lichens that caribou utilize in winter. Other researchers argued that caribou…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Chapin
Because species affect ecosystem functioning, understanding migration processes is a key component of predicting future ecosystem responses to climate change. This study provides evidence of range expansion under current climatic conditions of an indigenous species with strong…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Brockett
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Fukuda, Sandberg, Chapin, Dash
The FROSTFIRE research project conducted a prescribed burn of a 970 ha watershed in interior Alaska. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental burn of a watershed and the most thoroughly documented prescribed fire in history. Although extensive fire research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hicke, Asner, Kasischke, French, Randerson, Collatz, Stocks, Tucker, Los, Field
Fire is a major disturbance in the boreal forest, and has been shown to release significant amounts of carbon (C) to the atmosphere through combustion. However, less is known about the effects on ecosystems following fire, which include reduced productivity and changes in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Impact of forest conversion to agriculture on carbon and nitrogen mineralization in subarctic Alaska
Land-use change is likely to be a major component of global change at high latitudes, potentially causing significant alterations in soil C and N cycling. We addressed the biogeochemical impacts of land-use change in fully replicated black spruce forests and agricultural fields…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernandes, Botelho
Wildfire hazard abatement is one of the major reasons to use prescribed burning. Computer simulation, case studies, and analysis of the fire regimes in the presence of active prescribed burning programs in forest and shrubland generally indicate that this fuel management too…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson, Collins, Ruthford, Fukuda
A comprehensive evaluation of the vertical structure of a smoldering smoke plume was afforded by a unique combination of tethersonde measurements (from ground level to about 400 m above ground level (AGL) or 274-674 m above sea level (AGL)), lidar sounding (from about 1.5 to 5…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunham, Young, Gresswell, Rieman
Our limited understanding of the short and long-term effects of fire on fish contributes to considerable uncertainty in assessments of the risks and benefits of fire management alternatives. A primary concern among the many potential effects of fire is the effects of fire and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chapin, Rupp, Starfield, DeWilde, Zavaleta, Fresco, Henkelman, McGuire
The development of policies that promote ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability requires collaboration between natural and social scientists. We present a modeling approach to facilitate this communication and illustrate its application to studies of wildfire in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, Dunham
The feathermoss-dominated floor of coniferous boreal forests can experience midsummer drought. From ecophysiological studies, based on single shoots, it is unclear how the live moss carpet can survive such stress. External capillary wicking from the lowest, moist organic layers…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arocena, Opio
Pile and windrow burning of logging slash are important silvicultural practices in sub-boreal forests, yet, little is known about their effects on soil properties. We investigated the physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties of soils collected 2 years after prescribed…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES