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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Belnap, Kaltenecker, Rosentreter, Williams, Leonard, Eldridge
In arid and semi-arid lands throughout the world, vegetation cover is often sparse or absent. Nevertheless, in open spaces between the higher plants, the soil surface is generally not bare of autotrophic life, but covered by a community of highly specialized organisms. These…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boham
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wurtz, Zasada
We present 27-year results from a comparison of clear-cutting and shelterwood harvesting in the boreal forest of Alaska. Three patch clear-cut and three shelterwood units were harvested in 1972; about 100 dispersed white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) leave trees per…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturm, Racine, Tape
The warming of the Alaskan Arctic during the past 150 years has accelerated over the last three decades and is expected to increase vegetation productivity in tundra if shrubs become more abundant; indeed, this transition may already be under way according to local plot studies…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simberloff
Many new concepts for managing production forests so as to preserve biodiversity have found their way into management procedures without much testing to make them most effective. In most regions, the general framework for a new approach has been ecosystem management, although…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Silapaswan, Verbyla, McGuire
Vegetation on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, which is characterized by transitions from tundra to boreal forest, may be sensitive to the influences of climate change on disturbance and species composition. To determine the ability to detect decadal-scale structural changes in…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Senkowsky
Here in Delta Junction, a stand of black spruce once cut a classic postcard profile against the snow-capped backdrop of the Alaska Range. But in 1999, it burned in the Donnelly Flats wildfire, a blaze that consumed 18,000 acres of forest. What's left looks like a field of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Ottmar, Cushon
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior and effects models has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuel classification that more accurately captures the structural complexity and geographic diversity of fuelbeds. The Fire and Environmental…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Radke, Ward, Riggan
Forestry, conservation, wildfire risk reduction, and agricultural uses of planned or prescribed fires as a tool for meeting the needs of wildland managers are increasingly in collision at the air pollution control and climate change cross-roads. The inevitable conflict resulting…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Martin
The University of Wisconsin-Madison produces Web-accessible, 24- and 48-hour forecasts of the Haines Index (a tool used to measure the atmospheric potential for large wildfire development) for most of North America using its nonhydrostatic modeling system. The authors examined…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pietikainen, Hiukka, Fritze
Prescribed burning is known to reduce the size of the microbial biomass in soil, which is not explained by preceding clear-cutting or the effects of ash deposition. Instead, burning induces an instant heat shock in the soil, which may either directly kill soil microbes or…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pietikainen, Hiukka, Fritze
The above article contained an error in the signal intensity results of the 13C CP/MAS NMR measurement (Table 2, p. 281) and in the assignment and range of the spectral regions (p. 281). The assignments of the chemical shift regions should be as follows: (1) alkyl C; (2) carbon…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nazimova, Polikarpov, Sukhinin, Uskova, Fedotova
Details are given of a study covering part of south-central Siberia (52-56 degrees N and 89-97 degrees E). Eight different altitudinal-zonal elements (i. e. forest vegetation zones) are defined between steppe (240-260 m altitude) and subalpine tundra/taiga (1600-1800 m altitude…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niemela, Chapin, Danell, Byrant
Recent efforts to project vegetation responses to climatic warming have emphasized the tight linkages between climate and vegetation distribution. Here several examples are provided which indicate that the direct effects of climatic warming on boreal vegetation can be…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Hardy, Swetnam, Rollins, Long
Maps of fire frequency, severity, size, and pattern are useful for strategically planning fire and natural resource management, assessing risk and ecological conditions, illustrating change in disturbance regimes through time, identifying knowledge gaps, and learning how climate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lists the conference proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology (November 11-15, 2001).
Year: 2001
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Amiro
Disturbances by fire and harvesting were thought to regulate the carbon balance of the Canadian boreal forest over scales of several decades. However, there are few direct measurements of carbon fluxes following disturbances to provide data needed to refine mathematical models.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Putnam
Fire shelters are required equipment for most wildland firefighters in the United States. In this study we report flame emissive power and temperatures inside and outside fire shelters placed in one prescribed fire, five experimental field fires, and one laboratory fire. Energy…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cole
Excerpted from article: 'The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) has officially been used in Alaska since 1992. The CFFDRS is comprised of two major subsystems: the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouhar
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell Tract is 730 unique wildland acres in the middle of Anchorage, Alaska with a population of 297,000. Immediately adjacent to the tract is a significant wildland-urban interface. Managed by the BLM Anchorage District, the land receives a major amount of recreational use…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tanacross is a Native village and corporation located in the Tanana River valley in Alaska?s interior region. BLM has fire management and protection responsibility for the lands under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The area for fuels treatment has a long history of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steinberg
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES