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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Boelman, Rocha, Shaver
Little is known about how satellite imagery can be used to describe burn severity in tundra landscapes. The Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) in 2007 burned over 1000 km2 of tundra on the North Slope of Alaska, creating a mosaic of small (1 m2) to large (>100 m2) patches that…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar, Butler
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Chipman, Barnes, Urban, Hu
Tundra fires have important ecological impacts on vegetation, wildlife, permafrost, and carbon cycling, but the pattern and controls of historic tundra fire regimes are poorly understood. We use sediment records from four lakes to develop a 2000-yr fire and vegetation history in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Halofsky, Johnson
Planning and management for the expected effects of climate change on natural resources are just now beginning in the western United States (U.S.), where the majority of public lands are located. Federal and state agencies have been slow to address climate change as a factor in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Littell
Disturbance interactions, and interactions between global warming and human-caused stresses, may compromise the ability of wilderness areas to respond to climate change according to a new paper in the International Journal of Wilderness. A major challenge to maintaining the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Kennedy
Use of scaling terminology and concepts in ecology evolved rapidly from rare occurrences in the early 1980s to a central idea by the early 1990s (Allen and Hoekstra 1992; Levin 1992; Peterson and Parker 1998). In landscape ecology, use of 'scale' frequently connotes explicitly…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bent, Kiekel, Brenton, Taylor
The role of common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) in postfire boreal forest successional trajectories is unknown. We investigated this issue by sampling a 50-m by 40-m area of naturally regenerating black spruce (Picea mariana), trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides), and paper…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ascough, Bird, Francis, Thornton, Midwood, Scott, Apperley
Charcoal is a key component of the Black Carbon (BC) continuum, where BC is characterized as a recalcitrant, fire-derived, polyaromatic material. Charcoal is an important source of palaeoenvironmental data, and of great interest as a potential carbon sink, due to its high…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
Sarah Trainor presents the opening remarks for the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop, held in Fairbanks, Alaska, October 6-7, 2011. This presentation highlights the Alaska Fire Science Consortium's past, present, and future activities, projects, and news.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mack, Bret-Harte, Hollingsworth, Jandt, Schuur, Shaver, Verbyla
Arctic tundra soils store large amounts of carbon (C) in organic soil layers hundreds to thousands of years old that insulate, and in some cases maintain, permafrost soils. Fire has been largely absent from most of this biome since the early Holocene epoch, but its frequency and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peters, Lugo, Chapin, Pickett, Duniway, Rocha, Swanson, Laney, Jones
Given that ecological effects of disturbance have been extensively studied in many ecosystems, it is surprising that few quantitative syntheses across diverse ecosystems have been conducted. Multi-system studies tend to be qualitative because they focus on disturbance types that…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Pausas, Rundel, Bond, Bradstock
Traits, such as resprouting, serotiny and germination by heat and smoke, are adaptive in fire-prone environments. However, plants are not adapted to fire per se but to fire regimes. Species can be threatened when humans alter the regime, often by increasing or decreasing fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mandle, Bufford, Schmidt, Daehler
Fire regimes influence and are influenced by the structure and composition of plant communities. This complex reciprocal relationship has implications for the success of plant invasions and the subsequent impact of invasive species on native biota. Although much attention has…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly
Climate change is likely to bring a myriad of interrelated changes to the Arctic. One change is warmer and drier conditions that could increase the prevalence of wildfire in northwest Alaska. Wildfires destroy terricolous lichens that Western Arctic Herd caribou (Rangifer…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Hollingsworth, Taylor, Rupp, Chapin
Fire is the primary landscape-scale disturbance in the boreal forest, and in the last half century fires have increased in severity and extent in the boreal forest and tundra. In the past fires at treeline have been rare with low fuel loads and cool/wet weather conditions. With…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tanase, de la Riva, Santoro, Pérez-Cabello, Kasischke
Disturbed forests may need decades to reach a mature stage and optically-based vegetation indices are usually poorly suited for monitoring purposes due to the rapid saturation of the signal with increasing canopy cover. Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data provide an…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) uses conferences as a primary method of delivering the latest science concerning fire ecology and fire effects to land managers. Regional-level conferences are conducted two years out of three with each regional conference focusing on a…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, Bunting, Fuhlendorf, Miller
It has been over 20 years since the last major book on the ecology and management of fire was published that contained extensive information from non-forested ecosystems across western North America (Wright and Bailey 1982). During subsequent years there have been notable books…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated) is an ecological monitoring system designed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of plot level ecological information. It includes a large selection of standard sampling protocols and supports user defined methods. It supports…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Leigh, Hrobak, Ellis
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) has partnered with UAF's Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Station to foster the growing network of visual artists, writers, and scientists dedicated to integrating scientific and artistic perspectives on climate change in…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Eric Miller, BLM-Alaska Fire Service, presents the powerpoint titled, Refining Prescriptions for Ruffed Grouse Habitat Burns in Interior Alaska, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 7, 2011. Four fire effects plots were established at Fort…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Jennifer Barnes, Regional Fire Ecologist for the National Park Service in Alaska, presents the study, Effects of Shortened Fire Return Intervals in Alaska Boreal Forest at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 6, 2011. The purpose of this project…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Seedre, Shrestha, Chen, Colombo, Jogiste
Boreal forest carbon (C) storage and sequestration is a critical element for global C management and is largely disturbance driven. The disturbance regime can be natural or anthropogenic with varying intensity and frequency that differ temporally and spatially the boreal forest…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goulden, McMillan, Winston, Rocha, Manies, Harden, Bond-Lamberty
We combined year-round eddy covariance with biometry and biomass harvests along a chronosequence of boreal forest stands that were 1, 6, 15, 23, 40, ~74, and ~154 years old to understand how ecosystem production and carbon stocks change during recovery from stand-replacing crown…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Donnell, Harden, McGuire, Romanovsky
In the boreal region, soil organic carbon (OC) dynamics are strongly governed by the interaction between wildfire and permafrost. Using a combination of field measurements, numerical modeling of soil thermal dynamics, and mass-balance modeling of OC dynamics, we tested the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS