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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Particulate matter and aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from the controlled combustion of alpha pinene
Combustion of a forest fuel complex produces a diverse mixture of oxygenated and unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds mixed with aerosols. This study examines the production rates for a number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) precursor compounds produced from the controlled…
Year: 1979
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
Johnson
The Weibull distribution is shown to fit well with empirical data of fire intervals for a population of sites. The distribution demonstrates that the recurrence of fire in the subarctic forests of the Northwest Territories, Canada, is predictable. The three parameters of the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holleman, Luick, White
Lichen intakes by reindeer and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) during winter were estimated using penned reindeer, esophageal fistulated reindeer, and by the application of the fallout radiocesium method to free-grazing caribou. Estimated mean values for lichen intake as determined…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grigal
Soils in two adjacent forest stands in interior Alaska, one birch (Betula papyrifera) and the other black spruce (Picea mariana), were sampled in 2-cm increments to a depth of 50 cm. The soils had developed from the same parent material and were similar in slope and aspect. The…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furniss, Baker, Werner, Yarger
The antiaggregation pheromone MCH was ineffective in preventing spruce beetle infestation in felled spruce near Hope, Alaska. The lack of reduction in spruce beetle attacks in treated trees is thought to involve a lower than desired elution rate of MCH. Cooler temperatures in…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Grigal
Five distinct forest communities were recognized along a 3-km transect. These are, listed in order of decreasing elevation: (i) open black spruce/feathermoss-Cladonia, (ii) closed black spruce/feathermoss, (iii) open black spruce/Sphagnum, (iv) black spruce woodland/Eriophorum,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Archibold
Soils collected from seven sample plots in a burned mixed-wood area in northern Saskatchewan were held under optimum laboratory conditions to determine the number of viable seeds and latent underground buds. A total of 270 plants developed, representing a rate of emergence of…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rapp, Leclerc, Lossaint
Nitrogen distribution and nitrogen fluxes were studied in a 35-year-old Pinus pinea L. stand growing on a coastal sand site of the French Mediterranean. The amounts of nitrogen in the aerial and root biomass (301 kg ha-1) in the litter layer (498 kg ha-1) and in the first metre…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Raison
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tiedemann, Conrad, Dieterich, Hornbeck, Megahan, Viereck, Wade
The main effect burning on water quality is the potential for increased runoff of rainfall. Runoff may carry suspended soil particles, dissolved inorganic nutrients, and other materials into adjacent streams and lakes, reducing water quality and degrading fish habitat (Wade and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Dormaar, Pittman, Spratt
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fahnestock
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Year: 1979
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