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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Driscoll, Arocena, Massicotte
Forest fires are known to influence nutrient cycling, particularly soil nitrogen (N), as well as plant succession in northern forest ecosystems. However, few studies have addressed the dynamics of soil N and its relationship to vegetation composition after fire in these forests…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knicker, Almendros, Gonzalez-Vila, Martin, Ludemann
Sructural changes in lignocellulosic biomass heated under conitions comparable to those encountered in several types of natural or planned burnings have been studied by solid-state 13C- and 15N-CPMAS NMR spectroscopy of 15N-MNR spectra of biomass subjected to severe heating…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Janna, Hannu
'Fires are natural in boreal coniferous forest ecosystems, occuring every 100-200 years. Burning of the humus and forest vegetation (mainly spruce and understory) raises the pH of the humus of the podzolic soil and leads to new succession of the forest plant community. The…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Auken, Bush
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
2014 is an EPA National Emission Inventory (NEI) Year. The NEI is a national inventory of air pollutants, emitted from all sources. EPA compiles a NEI every three years from information submitted by State/Local/Tribal (SLT) agencies. Prescribed fire, wildfire and crop residue…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neff, Harden, Gleixner
Boreal ecosystems contain a substantial fraction of the earth's soil carbon stores and are prone to frequent and severe wildfires. In this study, we examine changes in element and organic matter stocks due to a 1999 wildfire in Alaska. One year after the wildfire, burned soils…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Page-Dumroese, Jurgensen, Harvey
This chapter discusses the impact of fire on soil carbon (C) pools, recovery after fire, the effects of a fire suppression policy on soil C, methods to estimate C losses from fire, and the implications of fire management on soil C cycling and sequestration.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liski, Ilvesniemi, Makela, Starr
Potential causes for changes in the amounts of carbon (C) stored in the soils of boreal forests were studied by measuring the C in the soil along a 5000-year chronosequence in coastal western Finland and using a simple dynamic model of decomposition. The amount of soil C…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodcock, Wells
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here designated as the most burnable part…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gajewski, Payette, Ritchie
1. Pollen analysis of sediment cores from the four zones that comprise the forest-tundra transition in northern Quebec provide a history of the vegetation that can be compared with extensive macrofossil data from the region. Basal radiocarbon dates indicate that the entire reion…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Desponts, Payette
1 The postglacial history of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) at its northernmost distribution limit in the upper boreal forest, along the Grande Riviere de la Baleine (northern Quebec), was reconstructed by using radiocarbon-dated conifer macrofossils found in dune palaeosols…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jandt
Climate Change Implications for Wildfire in Alaska presented by Randi Jandt. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sanford, Wang, Kenward
Alaska, the great northern frontier of America, is being reshaped by climate change. While rising temperatures are altering its character and landscape, they are also bringing the ravages of wildfires. In the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewandrowski, Kim, Aillery
Economic studies have demonstrated that agricultural landowners could mitigate significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through afforestation. The associated carbon, however, must remain stored in soils or biomass for several decades to achieve substantial…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Attiwill, Binkley
In many parts of the world both the area and intensity of wild-land fires have increased alarmingly. Not only are fires increasing in number, but the nature of these fires is also changing. We see mega-fires of increasing size and intensity in many parts of the world including…
Year: 2013
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
Flannigan, Krawchuk, de Groot, Wotton, Gowman
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on global fire activity. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Bond-Lamberty, Gower
The objective of this study was to quantify carbon (C) distribution for boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands comprising a fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The experimental design included seven well-drained (dry) and seven poorly-drained (wet)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Payne, Stocks, Robinson, Wasey, Strapp
Combustion aerosol particles from boreal forest fires were quantified to facilitate investigation of the potential effects of increased fire activity caused by global warming, by providing data inputs for global and regional climate modelling of the direct and indirect effects.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, Christensen, Stocks
Fire strongly influences carbon cycling and storage in boreal forests. In the near-term, if global warming occurs, the frequency and intensity of fires in boreal forests are likely to increase significantly. A sensitivity analysis on the relationship between fire and carbon…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gromtsev
Fire layers in peat columns from bogs, and carbon layers in soil trenches on dry ground were used to analyse the pattern of occurrence of fires in natural spruce [Picea abies] and pine [Pinus sylvestris] boreal forests of Karelia during the last 3000-6000 years. Results of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Czimczik, Schmidt, Schulze
Fires in boreal forests frequently convert organic matter in the organic layer to black carbon, but we know little of how changing fire frequency alters the amount, composition and distribution of black carbon and organic matter within soils, or affects podzolization. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Finer, Messier, Degrandpré
Fine-root (diameter 10 mm) standing biomass, length, distribution, production, and decomposition were studied in mixed conifer/broadleaved forest stands 48, 122, and 232 yr after fire on clay soils in the southern boreal forest of Quebec. A combination of ingrowth bags, soil…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS