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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Auclair, Evin, Pages
Robinia pseudocacia stem annual growth rings from 1958 to 1987 were analyzed for 14C content. The radioactivity of annual rings was found to be strongly correlated with 14C concentration in the atmosphere, which showed a very sharp rise until 1963 due to nuclear weapon tests…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pan, Chen, Birdsey, McCullough, He, Deng
Most forests of the world are recovering from a past disturbance. It is well known that forest disturbances profoundly affect carbon stocks and fluxes in forest ecosystems, yet it has been a great challenge to assess disturbance impacts in estimates of forest carbon budgets. Net…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fan, Neff, Harden, Zhang, Veldhuis, Czimczik, Winston, O'Donnell
Soil water content strongly affects permafrost dynamics by changing the soil thermal properties. However, the movement of liquid water, which plays an important role in the heat transport of temperate soils, has been under-represented in boreal studies. Two different heat…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manies, Harden, Ottmar
This report describes the sample collection and processing for U.S. Geological Survey efforts at FROSTFIRE, an experimental burn that occurred in Alaska in 1999. Data regarding carbon, water, and energy dynamics pre-fire, during, and post-fire were obtained in this landscape-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Donnell, Harden, McGuire, Romanovsky
In the boreal region, soil organic carbon (OC) dynamics are strongly governed by the interaction between wildfire and permafrost. Using a combination of field measurements, numerical modeling of soil thermal dynamics, and mass-balance modeling of OC dynamics, we tested the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Donahue, Benscoter
For millennia, peatlands have served as an important sink for atmospheric CO2 and today represent a large soil carbon reservoir. While recent land use and wildfires have reduced carbon sequestration in tropical peatlands, the influence of disturbance on boreal peatlands is…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rocha, Shaver
Burned landscapes present several challenges to quantifying landscape carbon balance. Fire scars are composed of a mosaic of patches that differ in burn severity, which may influence postfire carbon budgets through damage to vegetation and carbon stocks. We deployed three eddy…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS