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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fosberg, Cramer, Brovkin, Fleming, Gardner, Gill, Goldammer, Keane, Koehler, Lenihan, Neilson, Sitch, Thornicke, Venevski, Weber, Wittenberg
From the text...'Disturbance plays a major role in shaping and maintaining many of the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, many ecosystems depend on fire for their very existence. Global Change is expected to result in changed distribution of current ecosystems, changed…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCoy, Jaffre, Rigault, Ash
Aim This study investigates the role of fire and post fire succession in determining the structure and composition of vegetation on ultramafic iron crust soils.Location The study was conducted in the Plaines des Lacs region of southern New Caledonia.Methods A survey was made of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Døckersmith, Giardina, Sanford
Individual trees are known to influence soil chemical properties, creating spatial patterns that vary with distance from the stem. The influence of trees on soil chemical properties is commonly viewed as the agronomic basis for low-input agroforestry and shifting cultivation…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urban, Acevedo, Garman
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jonsson, Dahlberg, Nilsson, Zackrisson, Karen
The effects of wildfires on ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungal communities in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) stands at 4 sites in the boreal zone of northern Sweden were evaluated. Below- and above-ground communities were analysed in terms of species richness and evenness by examining…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. Fire scars for 160 years (1831-1948) for Pinus banksiana, and written fire records from 1927 to 1995, from the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Imbeau, Savard, Gagnon
Comparisons of the effects of logging and fire as disturbance agents on the composition of bird assemblages in boreal ecosystems are still lacking or are limited to the short-term impacts of clear felling. In Quebec, Canada, where the boreal forest is largely dominated by black…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martell
A Markov chain is used to model day to day changes in the Fire Weather Index (FWI) component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The results of statistical analyses of 26 years (1963-1988) of fire weather data recorded at 15 fire weather stations located across the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hornberg, Ostlund, Zackrisson, Bergman
In northern Fennoscandia a rare forest type, characterized by Cladina [Cladonia] spp. (lichens) and Picea abies, occurs on dry productive sites outside the range of permafrost but close to the Scandes mountains. The history of vegetation development and disturbance was…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kissinger
National cooperative wildland fire prevention/education teams are available to support any geographic area preceding and during periods of high fire danger or fire activity. Severity dollars are appropriate for use in mobilizing a team.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gresswell
Synthesis of the literature suggests that physical, chemical, and biological elements of a watershed interact with long-term climate to influence fire regime, and that these factors, in concordance with the postfire vegetation mosaic, combine with local-scale weather to govern…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Greene, Johnson
We examined the relationship between the post-fire regeneration density of Populus tremuloides Michx., Pinus banksiana Lamb., and Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP and their pre-fire basal area density at the spatial scale of 70 m (the width of the stands studied) in four fires in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greene, Zasada, Sirois, Kneeshaw, Morin, Charron, Simard
In this review, we focus on the biotic parameters that are crucial to an understanding of the recruitment dynamics of North American boreal tree species following natural (fire, budworm infestation, windthrow) or human-induced (clearcut, partial cut) disturbances. The parameters…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Bourgeau-Chavez, Wang, Kasischke
Previous research has shown that the wet soil conditions found at fire-disturbed sites in the boreal region produce bright backscatter on ERS imagery compared with the surrounding unburned forest. A study was undertaken to examine ERS and standard beam Radarsat imagery over fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg, Cramer, Brovkin, Fleming, Gardner, Gill, Goldammer, Keane, Koehler, Lenihan, Neilson, Sitch, Thornicke, Venevski, Weber, Wittenberg
A series of experimental fires was conducted to document point-source fire growth burning on full-tree harvested jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites with a feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (B.S.G.) Mitt.) duff layer. Results showed that the time for any of the fires to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Densmore, Juday, Zasada
Site-preparation and regeneration methods for white spruce (Picea glauca) were investigated within the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, on 2 upland sites which had been burned in a wildfire (1983) and salvage logged (1985). One site supported white…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Radke, Coen, Middleton
A good physical understanding of the initiation, propagation, and spread of crown fires remains as elusive goal for fire researchers. Although some data exist that describe the fire spread rate and some qualitative aspects of wildfire behavior, none have revealed the very small…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boles, Verbyla
Some AVHRR fire detection studies have excluded pixels that exceeded an arbitrary scan angle. This exclusion seems to be based on the distortion of pixels at high scan angles and the well-documented effects of scan angle on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. However,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brennan, Hardwick
In recent years, there has been an influx of new technology for fire planning, suppression, and management efforts. GIS can put accurate information in the hands of those who need it. GeoTechnologies discussed: GIS; Remote Sensing. Benefits: The combinations of new technologies…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Armstrong
The annual area burned on an 8.6 x 106 ha study area in the boreal mixedwood forest of northeastern Alberta, Canada, was characterized as a serially independent random draw from a lognormal distribution. This characterization was applied in Monte Carlo simulations, which showed…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Acea, Carballas
Microorganisms in heated (200ºC, 1 h) soil not inoculated (H) or inoculated with 0.5% of fresh soil (Hi) and amended with wheat straw (Hi+WS) or poultry manure (Hi+PM) were determined during a 3-month soil incubation. Heating completely sterilised the soil, although the normal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guggenheim
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES