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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shulski, Alden, Larkin, Wendler
A total area of 26,669 km2 (6.59 million acres) burned from forest fires in Alaska during the summer of 2004, setting a new record in the 50-year database. The unusually warm and dry weather was a predominant factor for the wildfire season in which it was the warmest on record…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edminster, Swetnam
Forum: Bring together key decision makers, information providers, researchers, and managers to discuss climate implications for management of forest fire hazards and prescribed burning. Consensus Climate Forecast. Climate forecast experts will present their latest seasonal…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Gould, González, Hudak
Landscape fragmentation creates an increasingly complex environment in which to manage forests in the United States. The effects of fragmentation on productivity, mortality, and decomposition in forests vary with fragment size, forest type, and climate. Fragmentation can affect…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McGuire, Apps
Contains information about the conference itinerary and abstracts from this conference.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Randerson, Lindfors, Chapin
Understanding links between the disturbance regime and regional climate in boreal regions requires observations of the surface energy budget from ecosystems in various stages of secondary succession. While several studies have characterized fire-induced differences in surface…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lal
Soils in equilibrium with a natural forest ecosystem have high carbon (C) density. The ratio of soil:vegetation C density increases with latitude. Land use change, particularly conversion to agricultural ecosystems, depletes the soil C stock. Thus, degraded agricultural soils…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goetz, Bunn, Fiske, Houghton
We analyzed trends in a time series of photosynthetic activity across boreal North America over 22 years (1981 through 2003). Nearly 15% of the region displayed significant trends, of which just over half involved temperature-related increases in growing season length and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tareq, Tanoue, Tsuji, Tanaka, Ohta
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bachelet, Lenihan, Neilson, Drapek, Kittel
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wieder, Scott, Kamminga
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neilson, Lenihan, Bachelet, Drapek
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girod, Hurtt
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kim, Hatsushika, Muskett, Yamazaki
The role of black carbon (BC) soot in the Arctic as an agent of climate warming through forcing/feedback of sea ice/glacier albedo is an uncertainty in need of addressing. In-situ measurements of BC-aerosols and gas byproducts from the FROSTFIRE experiment burn, 8–11 July 1999,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Berg, Dial
This study documents the scale and intensity of drying over the last half century in the Kenai Lowlands of south-central Alaska. Using historical aerial photos and field sampling of wetlands, including muskegs, kettle ponds, and closed and open basin lakes, we present data on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kim, Hatsushika, Muskett, Yamazaki
The role of black carbon (BC) soot in the Arctic as an agent of climate warming through forcing/feedback of sea ice/glacier albedo is an uncertainty in need of addressing. In-situ measurements of BC-aerosols and gas byproducts from the FROSTFIRE experiment burn, 8-11 July 1999,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Construction of fuelbreaks as a presuppression fuels treatment strategy in national forests has always been controversial (Omi 1996). Criticisms have been raised over the objectives, prescriptions, locations, methods, costs, impacts, and effectiveness of fuelbreak construction…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kane, Valentine, Schuur, Dutta
The amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) in stable, slow-turnover pools is likely to change in response to climate warming because processes mediating soil C balance (net primary production and decomposition) vary with environmental conditions. This is important to consider in…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Bettez, Bolton, Chapin, Dyurgerov, Fastie, Griffith, Hollister, Hope, Huntington, Jensen, Jia, Jorgenson, Kane, Klein, Kofinas, Lynch, Lloyd, McGuire, Nelson, Oechel, Osterkamp, Racine, Romanovsky, Stone, Stow, Sturm, Tweedie, Vourlitis, Walker, Walker, Webber, Welker, Winker, Yoshikawa
The Arctic climate is changing. Permafrost is warming, hydrological processes are changing and biological and social systems are also evolving in response to these changing conditions. Knowing how the structure and function of arctic terrestrial ecosystems are responding to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hogg, Wein
The valleys of southwestern Yukon, Canada have a continental climate with average annual precipitation of <300 mm. In 1958, fires burned large areas of mature mixedwood forests dominated by white spruce (Picea glauca) in the valleys near Whitehorse. Since then, the burned…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Nordgren, Kaufman, Holben, Giles
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the NASA Terra satellite has been used to monitor aerosol optical thickness (AOT, ?) daily at 10km+10km resolution worldwide since August 2000. This information, together with the locations of active fires…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Tian, Liu
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duffy, Walsh, Graham, Mann, Rupp
Fire is the keystone disturbance in the Alaskan boreal forest and is highly influenced by summer weather patterns. Records from the last 53 years reveal high variability in the annual area burned in Alaska and corresponding high variability in weather occurring at multiple…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Gebert, Jones, Neilson
Extreme fire seasons in recent years and associated high suppression expenditures have brought about a chorus of calls for reform of federal firefighting structure and policy. Given the political nature of the topic, a critical review of past trends in area burned, size of fires…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calef, McGuire, Epstein, Rupp, Shugart
Aim: To understand drivers of vegetation type distribution and sensitivity to climate change. Location: Interior Alaska. Methods: A logistic regression model was developed that predicts the potential equilibrium distribution of four major vegetation types: tundra, deciduous…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS