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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The relative importance of variables in determining area burned is an important management consideration although gaining insights from existing empirical data has proven difficult. The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modeled area burned to environmental…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
A University of Idaho Extension publication explaining the causes, mechanics, behavior and suppresion of wildfire. Identifies potential effects on vegetation, wildlife, soils and watersheds and offers a postfire management plan.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg
For the past 2500 years there has been no connection between SBB outbreaks and wildfire. Our fire history and SBB outbreak history studies indicate that white/Lutz spruce (Picea glauca and P. x lutzii )forests burn with a mean fire return interval (MFI) of 400-600 years, whereas…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiedinmyer, Tie, Guenther, Neilson, Granier
Isoprene is emitted from vegetation to the atmosphere in significant quantities, and it plays an important role in the reactions that control tropospheric oxidant concentrations. As future climatic and land-cover changes occur, the spatial and temporal variations, as well as the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malcolm, Liu, Neilson, Hansen, Hannah
Global warming is a key threat to biodiversity, but few researchers have assessed the magnitude of this threat at the global scale. We used major vegetation types (biomes) as proxies for natural habitats and, based on projected future biome distributions under doubled-C02…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cushman, McKenzie, Peterson, Littell, McKelvey
Reliable predictions of the effects changing climate and disturbance regimes will have on forest ecosystems are crucial for effective forest management. Current fire and climate research in forest ecosystem and community ecology offers data and methods that can inform such…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A rational approach to monitoring and assessment is prerequisite for sustainable management of ecosystem resources. This features innovative ways to advance the concept of monitoring ecosystem sustainability across spheres of environmental concern, natural and anthropogenic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tape, Sturm, Racine
One expected response to climate warming in the Arctic is an increase in the abundance and extent of shrubs in tundra areas. Repeat photography shows that there has been an increase in shrub cover over the past 50 years in northern Alaska. Using 202 pairs of old and new oblique…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Alexander, Wotton, Stefner, Flannigan, Taylor, Lavoie, Mason, Hartley, Maffey, Dalrymple, Blake, Cruz, Lanoville
The referencing of the y- and x-axes in the caption to Fig. 6 on p. 1557 of this paper was inadvertently transposed. The y-axis pertains to the predictions and the x-axis relates to the observed forward spread rates.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rupp, Olson, Adams, Dale, Joly, Henkelman, Collins, Starfield
Caribou are an integral component of high-latitude ecosystems and represent a major subsistence food source for many northern people. The availability and quality of winter habitat is critical to sustain these caribou populations. Caribou commonly use older spruce woodlands with…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randerson, Liu, Flanner, Chambers, Jin, Hess, Pfister, Mack, Treseder, Welp, Chapin, Harden, Goulden, Lyons, Neff, Schuur, Zender
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky, Harden, Friedli, Flannigan, Payne, Crock, Radke
With climate change rapidly affecting northern forests and wetlands, mercury reserves once protected in cold, wet soils are being exposed to burning, likely triggering large releases of mercury to the atmosphere. We quantify organic soil mercury stocks and burn areas across…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Hallett, Berg, Jass, Toney, De Fontaine, De Volder
Several studies have noted a relationship between vegetation type and fire frequency, yet despite the importance of ecosystem processes such as fire the long-term relationships between disturbance, climate and vegetation type are incompletely understood. We analysed pollen,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Orchansky, Barr, Black, Chambers, Chapin, Goulden, Litvak, Liu, McCaughey, McMillan, Randerson
Fire in the boreal forest renews forest stands and changes the ecosystem properties. The successional stage of the vegetation determines the radiative budget, energy balance partitioning, evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide flux. Here, we synthesize energy balance measurements…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig, Bair
Forest environmental conditions are affected by climate change, but investments in forest environmental quality can be used as part of the climate change mitigation strategy. A key question involving the potential use of forests to store more carbon as part of climate change…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kafka, Hirsch, Parisien, Flannigan
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Joly, Rupp
Land and wildlife managers in Alaska are concerned about the effects of recent climate warming in Northwestern Alaska on tundra fire ecology and the well-being of Alaska's largest caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd. Subarctic regions, including Alaska, have experienced rapid…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, D'Amore, Schaberg, Hawley, Beier, Sink, Juday
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera
Fire-history records have important implications for understanding the controls of modern and future fire regimes in arctic and boreal Alaska. Charcoal in lake sediments provides a means to reconstruct past fires across different climatic and vegetational periods in this region…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
The boreal forest covers 12 million km2 of the northern hemisphere and contains roughly 40% of the world's reactive soil carbon. The Northern high latitudes have experienced significant warming over the past century and there is a pressing need to characterize the response of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawler, White, Neilson, Blaustein
Predicted changes in the global climate are likely to cause large shifts in the geographic ranges of many plant and animal species. To date, predictions of future range shifts have relied on a variety of modeling approaches with different levels of model accuracy. Using a common…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg, Anderson, De Volder
Three data-intensive studies were conducted to examine the fire history of the Kenai Peninsula on three different time scales. The Kenai Peninsula has two distinct fire regimes: a high frequency regime in black spruce (Picea mariana) and a low frequency regime in white (P.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, McGuire, Ruess, Walker, Boone, Edwards, Finney, Hinzman, Jones, Juday, Kasischke, Kielland, Lloyd, Oswood, Ping, Rexstad, Romanovsky, Schimel, Sparrow, Sveinbjörnsson, Valentine, Van Cleve, Verbyla, Viereck, Werner, Wurtz, Yarie
Historically the boreal forest has experienced major changes, and it remains a highly dynamic biome today. During cold phases of Quaternary climate cycles, forests were virtually absent from Alaska, and since the postglacial re-establishment of forests ca 13,000 years ago, here…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Orchansky, Barr, Black, Chambers, Chapin, Goulden, Litvak, Liu, McCaughey, McMillan, Randerson
Fire in the boreal forest renews forest stands and changes the ecosystem properties. The successional stage of the vegetation determines the radiative budget, energy balance partitioning, evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide flux. Here, we synthesize energy balance measurements…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Randerson, Liu, Flanner, Chambers, Jin, Hess, Pfister, Mack, Treseder, Welp, Chapin, Harden, Goulden, Lyons, Neff, Schuur, Zender
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS