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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kelly, Genet, McGuire, Hu
Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle1,2, and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming century3. However, these predictions may be compromised because brief observational records provide limited constraints to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yue, Ciais, Zhu, Wang, Peng, Piao
Boreal fires have immediate effects on regional carbon budgets by emitting CO2 into the atmosphere at the time of burning, but they also have legacy effects by initiating a long-term carbon sink during post-fire vegetation recovery. Quantifying these different effects on the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinkham, Smith, Higuera, Hatten, Brewer, Doerr
Soil organic matter plays a key role in the global carbon cycle, representing three to four times the total carbon stored in plant or atmospheric pools. Although fires convert a portion of the faster cycling organic matter to slower cycling black carbon (BC), abiotic and biotic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landry, Matthews
Non-deforestation fire - i.e., fire that is typically followed by the recovery of natural vegetation - is arguably the most influential disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, thereby playing a major role in carbon exchanges and affecting many climatic processes. The radiative…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Buchholz, Hurteau, Gunn, Saah
The potential greenhouse gas benefits of displacing fossil energy with biofuels are driving policy development in the absence of complete information. The potential carbon neutrality of forest biomass is a source of considerable scientific debate because of the complexity of…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Luo, Yu, Zhang, Xu, Brookes
Purpose - The production of large quantities of biochar from natural fires has been a part of human history for millennia, causing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere and exerting long-term effects on soil processes. Despite its potential importance and recent work reflecting the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Baets, Van De Weg, Lewis, Steinberg, Meersmans, Quine, Shaver, Hartley
Rapid warming in Arctic ecosystems is resulting in increased frequency of disturbances such as fires, changes in the distribution and productivity of different plant communities, increasing thaw depths in permafrost soils and greater nutrient availability, especially nitrogen.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henshaw
The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) of Arctic Alaska are gregarious, frequently mobile and occupy environment too harsh to support more than a limited spectrum of specialized animals. Although most previous work on caribou has been conducted during the short summer phase of their…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
Concentrations of P, K, Ca, Mg, Mn and Zn in black spruce foliage were examined in relation to forest succession on north slopes in interior Alaska. Decline in levels of P and K in the foliage corresponds with rapid decline in forest productivity. Levels of P and, to a lesser…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), introduced to St. Matthews Island in 1944, increased from 29 animals at that time to 6,000 in the summer of 1963, and underwent a crash die-off the following winter to less than 50 animals. In 1957, the body weight of the reindeer was found to…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gordon
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hoy, Turetsky, Kasischke
Much recent research has investigated the effects of burning on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forests in interior Alaska, however little research has focused on how frequent reburning affects soil organic layer (SOL) vulnerability in these ecosystems. We compared organic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loranty, Lieberman-Cribbin, Berner, Natali, Goetz, Alexander, Kholodov
In arctic tundra and boreal forest ecosystems vegetation structural and functional influences on the surface energy balance can strongly influence permafrost soil temperatures. As such, vegetation changes will likely play an important role in permafrost soil carbon dynamics and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kalies, Haubensak, Finkral
Forest management can have substantial impacts on ecosystem carbon storage, but those effects can vary significantly with management type and species composition. We used systematic review methodology to identify and synthesize effects of thinning and/or burning, timber…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Lukenbach, Devito, Kettridge, Petrone, Waddington
Wildfire is the largest disturbance affecting northern peatlands; however, little is known about how burn severity (organic soil depth of burn) alters post-fire hydrological conditions that control the recovery of keystone peatland mosses (i.e. Sphagnum). For this reason, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rasbash, Langford
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS