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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bartos
From the text...'Bartos and Campbell (1998) have identified five risk factors to help resource managers prioritize critical areas in need of treatment. If any of these factors exist, it is incumbent on the manager to consider treatment - particularly if their objective is to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morimoto, Juday, Young
The boreal forest of Alaska has experienced a small area of forest cuttings, amounting to 7137 ha out of a total of 256,284 ha of timberland in the Fairbanks and Kantishna area of state forest land. Low product values and high costs for management have resulted in a low-input…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marlon, Kelly, Daniau, Vannière, Power, Bartlein, Higuera, Blarquez, Brewer, Brücher, Feurdean, Gil-Romera, Iglesias, Maezumi, Magi, Courtney Mustaphi, Zhihai
The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially climate. Paleofire records based on charcoal accumulation in sediments enable modern changes in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Whitley, Jenkins
The study uses satellite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer albedo products (MCD43A3) to assess changes in albedo at two sites in the treeless tundra region of Alaska, both within the foothills region of the Brooks Range, the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) and 2012…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balch, Nagy, Archibald, Bowman, Moritz, Roos, Scott, Williamson
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Stocks
From the text ... 'It is interesting to note that the greatest annual areas burned since records have been kept, are restricted to the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s (with the exception of 1961 when almost 4 million ha burned). Also, when examining these statistics, it…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan, Pattison, Brownlee, Cahoon, Hollingsworth
Boreal forests are critical sinks in the global carbon cycle. However, recent studies have revealed increasing frequency and extent of wildfires, decreasing landscape greenness, increasing tree mortality and declining growth of black and white spruce in boreal North America. We…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett, Loboda, McGuire, Genet, Hoy, Kasischke
Wildfire, a dominant disturbance in boreal forests, is highly variable in occurrence and behavior at multiple spatiotemporal scales. New data sets provide more detailed spatial and temporal observations of active fires and the post-burn environment in Alaska. In this study, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferster, Eskelson, Andison, LeMay
Wildfires are a common disturbance event in the Canadian boreal forest. Within event boundaries, the level of vegetation mortality varies greatly. Understanding where surviving vegetation occurs within fire events and how this relates to pre-fire vegetation, topography, and fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dash, Fraterrigo, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is projected to increase dramatically in response to anthropogenic climate change. By altering the spatial arrangement of fuels, land-cover configuration may interact with climate change to influence fire-regime dynamics at landscape and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yeboah, Chen, Kingston
Understanding species diversity and disturbance relationships is important for biodiversity conservation in disturbance-driven boreal forests. Species richness and evenness may respond differently with stand development following fire. Furthermore, few studies have…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought. A key finding is that…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engelmark, Hofgaard, Arnborg
We present results from repeated analyses (1962, 1993) of a permanent plot established in 1947, combined with retrospective stand age structure data, in an old Pinus sylvestris stand in Muddus National Park, northern Sweden. The study points towards a successional pathway…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
Abstract only:..'In the middle of July, 1997, I had the opportunity to present my views on 'Wildfire Management' to the House Agriculture Committee. On my return to Missoula one of my graduate students came running into my office waving a set of new fire management definitions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Sirois
From 1980- 1989, fires burned 32 440 km² of boreal forest, 200 km south of the forest-tundra border in northern Quebec, Canada. An assessment of the impact of fire on tree population densities was carried out by comparing the number of Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana in 83…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme, Everham, Frelich, Moritz, Sparks
In this article, we develop a heuristic model of ecosystem-disturbance dynamics that illustrates a range of responses of disturbance impact to gradients of increasing disturbance extent, intensity, or duration. Three general kinds of response are identified and illustrated: (a)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paine, Tegner, Johnson
All species have evolved in the presence of disturbance, and thus are in a sense matched to the recurrence pattern of the perturbations. Consequently, disturbances within the typical range, even at the extreme of that range as defined by large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs),…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Richard, Carcaillet, Gauthier, Flannigan, Prairie
Because some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting, forest management is often considered as a disturbance having effects similar to those of natural disturbances. Although the analogy between forest management and fire disturbance in boreal…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, Weir
Mimicking of natural disturbance for ecosystem management requires an understanding of the disturbance processes and the resulting landscape patterns. Since fire is the major disturbance in the boreal forest, three widely held beliefs about fire behavior and resulting landscape…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andison
The strategy of managing for 'natural' patterns towards ecological sustainability of forests is currently limited to simple spatial attributes of landscapes. Yet, there is general agreement that landscapes are highly dynamic entities suggesting that temporal patterns may also be…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lindbladh, Bradshaw
Deciduous forests in much of southern Sweden are often located on former 'in-field' sites close to farms and villages. The more distant 'out-field' sites are almost always dominated by conifers. Using palaeecological methods, we investigate the origin of this forest pattern at a…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knapp
The spatial and temporal occurrence of large grassland fires (>2008 ha) in the Intermountain West was examined for the period 1980 through 1995. Results suggest that these fires are largely predictable through space and time. Of the 360 large fires, 339 occurred within eight…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Hebda
From the text...'Fossil charcoal and pollen records from five sediment cores were used to reconstruct the post-glacial fire and vegetation history on southern Vancouver Island. Specifically, macroscopic charcoal fragments representative of local fire activity were used to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Korsman, Segerstrom
1 A Holocene sediment profile from a northern Swedish boreal forest lake was analysed for diatoms, pollen and charcoal. The diatom data were used for inferences of lake-water pH, alkalinity and colour, while the pollen and charcoal records enabled assessment of catchment…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
From the text...'Canada contains a great deal of land that, although not officially designated as such, is wilderness. In the past, many fires that occurred in remote areas and did not threaten economic resources wre not aggressively suppressed. However, this was often done on…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS