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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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White, Cannell, Friend
A dynamic, global vegetation model, hybrid v4.1 (Ecological Modelling, 95, 249-287 (1997)), was driven by transient climate output from the UK Hadley Centre GCM (HadCM2) with the IS92a scenario of increasing atmospheric CO2 equivalent, sulfate aerosols and predicted patterns of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Starfield, Chapin
An important challenge in global-change research is to stimulate short-term transient changes in climate, disturbance regime, and recruitment that drive long-term vegetation distributions. Spatial features (e.g., topographic barriers) and processes, including disturbance…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rupp, Chapin, Starfield
Understanding the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climatic warming is a challenge because of the complex interactions of climate, disturbance, and recruitment across the landscape. We use a spatially explicit model (ALFRESCO) to simulate the transient response of subarctic…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waddington, Roulet
Measurements of the spatial variability of methane (CH4) emissions, net CO2 ecosystem exchange (NEE), and dissolved carbon (CH4, CO2, and DOC) were made in a boreal patterned peatland in northern Sweden in the summers (May to September) of 1992 and 1993. Carbon balance terms…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roessler, Packee
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Alvarado
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayasaka
This paper describes results of FROSTFIRE, a forest fire experiment carried out in July 1999 and also surveys results of the Donnelly Flats forest fire in June 1999 from the point of view of forest fire behavior. An investigation of the Donnelly Flats forest fire site found that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Berg
Wilderness areas comprise 65% of the 1.92 million acre Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Fire history studies indicate that fire frequency increased substantially in both white and black spruce forests after European settlement. Dendrochronolgy studies indicate that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Michalek, French, Kasischke, Johnson, Colwell
Fire disturbance in boreal forests can release carbon to the atmosphere stored in both the aboveground vegetation and the organic soil layer. Estimating pyrogenic emissions of carbon released during biomass burning in these forests is useful for understanding and estimating…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynch, Wu
Observations show that the amplitude of the annual atmospheric carbon dioxide cycle has increased. Lagged correlations between carbon dioxide, temperature, and vegetation suggest a modulation by ecosystem response, but the mechanisms remain unclear. Hypotheses include an early…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Stocks
A discussion of the direct and indirect mechanisms by which fire and climate interact to influence carbon cycling in North American boreal forests. The first section summarizes the information needed to understand and manage fires' effects on the ecology of boreal forests and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on flora and fuels can assist land managers with ecosystem and fire management planning and in their efforts to inform others about the ecological role of fire. Chapter topics include fire regime classification,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson
With the increasing use of prescribed fire, predicting the potential impacts are becoming more and more important. Of great concern are the effects of smoke on human health and visibility. To help land managers anticipate and plan for potential trajectories and dispersion of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Amiro, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network (CFS-FRN) and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, Fosberg, Wotton, Lynham, Ryan
After a decade of speculation and debate, there is now a general scientific consensus that rising greenhouse gas levels in the earth’s atmosphere will result in significant climate change over the next century. The recent statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, French, O'Neill, Richter, Bourgeau-Chavez, Harrell
The cold climate and resulting low decomposition rates in the ground layers of boreal forests (such as those found in interior Alaska) result in the development of deep organic soils. In turn, these soils have an important role in many physical, chemical, and biological…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
In summary, the sensitivety study presented in this chapter supports the overall theme of this book (i.e., that fires in the boreal forest play a central role in the exchange of carbon between this biome and the atmosphere). Through a series of processes, the continuing rise in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, O'Neill, French, Bourgeau-Chavez
As discussed in the introduction to this section, fire serves an important ecological role in the boreal forest, especially in those processes controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases with the atmosphere. One of the key requirements for quantifying…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Grissom, Alexander, Cella, Cole, Kurth, Malotte, Martell, Mawdsley, Roessler, Quillin, Ward
Abstract from introduction: 'Over the next 50-100 years, the predicted doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to increase summer temperatures up to 4-6 degrees C at higher latitudes (Boer et al. 1992: Maxwell 1992: Ferguson 1995). In a 2 x CO2…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
French, Kasischke, Stocks, Mudd, Martell, Lee
In boreal forests, which contain large amounts of the world's terrestrial organic carbon, fire is a natural and fundamental disturbance regime essential in controlling many ecosystem processes. As a result of predicted climate change in the future, the fire regime and,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Martell, Flannigan, Wang
From the Introduction (p.357) ... 'Fire is a significant component of most boreal forest ecosystems. It is important to understand its occurrence and spread to assess the potential impact of global climate change on boreal forest ecosystems. This chapter presents an overview of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke
From the Introduction (p.104) ... 'The focus of this introduction to Section II is on describing the boreal forest ecosystem in terms of those factors and processes controlling carbon cycling. Such a systems approach is not new, and similar approaches have been used to study…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer, Stocks
From the Conclusions (p.63) ... 'The causes and impacts of fire in the boreal Eurasian region are multifaceted due to its rich cultural diversity and a broad range of socioeconomic and environmental conditions. Thus, it is impossible to draw any generalized conclusion or develop…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS