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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Roads, Fujioka, Chen, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center has been making experimental, near-real-time, weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. US fire danger forecasts and validations are based on standard indices from the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reutebuch, Andersen, McGaughey
Airborne laser scanning of forests has been shown to provide accurate terrain models and, at the same time, estimates of multiple resource inventory variables through active sensing of three-dimensional (3D) forest vegetation. Brief overviews of airborne laser scanning…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reams, Haines, Renner, Wascom, Kingre
The dramatic expansion into the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) places property, natural assets, and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to implement laws and outreach programs for pre-fire planning to mitigate the risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rapp
Over the last 15 years, spruce bark beetles have killed huge numbers of spruce trees, the dominant conifer across south-central Alaska. From 80 to 90 percent of the trees are dead in large areas on the Kenai Peninsula. The consequences of the spruce bark beetle outbreak will…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rajora, Mann, Shi
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) is a characteristic primary species of the Canadian boreal forest region, where it occurs in conifer-dominated and mixedwood forest types. Genetic diversity and population structure of white spruce may differ between the conifer-…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Radeloff, Hammer, Stewart, Fried, Holcomb, McKeefry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human-environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racey
Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) range occupancy and populations have declined in northwestern (NW) Ontario over the last 100 years primarily due to human-induced factors. Recovery efforts are underway to halt this decline by reducing risk factors. Climate forecasts…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Preisler, Grulke, Bytnerowicz, Esperanza
Monitoring and predicting ozone concentrations are a matter of special concern because ozone is one of the most important plant-damaging air pollutants in the world. High ozone concentrations have been shown to be harmful to plants not only within urban areas but also in remote…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Ping-Ning, Kumar, Kucharik, Klooster, Genovese, Cohen, Healey
Ecosystem structure and function are strongly affected by disturbance events, many of which in North America are associated with seasonal temperature extremes, wildfires, and tropical storms. This study was conducted to evaluate patterns in a 19-year record of global satellite…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ponomarev
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ping, Michaelson, Packee, Stiles, Swanson, Yoshikawa
This paper is the first to provide chemical, physical, and morphological properties of the soils in the boreal region of Alaska and to demonstrate the dominant effect of landscape attributes in soil formation. This study was conducted to characterize soils and landscape…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
We used the mast-seeding tree Picea glauca (white spruce) to examine whether the timing of mast years relative to fire had a lasting effect on the density and timing of regeneration. We studied 17 fires that occurred in mast years and in years with low cone production between…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Sirois, Parent
This study examines the variability of the potential aging error for saplings (height less than or equal to 1.5 m) of black spruce (Picea mariana) in mature fire-dominated stands (n=14 stands) of the northern boreal forest of northwestern Quebec, Canada. Age underestimation was…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Laughlin
Wildfire poses risks to fish and wildlife habitat, among other things. Management projects to reduce the severity of wildfire effects by implementing hazardous fuel reduction treatments also pose risks. How can land managers determine which risk is greater? Comparison of risks…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nitschke
The emulation of natural disturbances is seen by many as an important management paradigm for achieving sustainable ecosystem management. To successfully emulate natural disturbances, managers must first have an understanding of the complex interactions that occur to the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Namroud, Tremblay, Bergeron
Two sites that burned in 1847 (H) and 1823 (I) in the mixedwood boreal forest in Quebec were selected to follow aspen genetic and clonal diversity over time. At each site, three cohorts were identified by core dating, and about 30 trees per cohort were randomly selected to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire history and the global carbon budget: a 1°× 1° fire history reconstruction for the 20th century
A yearly global fire history is a prerequisite for quantifying the contribution of previous fires to the past and present global carbon budget. Vegetation fires can have both direct (combustion) and long-term indirect effects on the carbon cycle. Every fire influences the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andersen, Reutebuch, McGaughey
Accurate digital terrain models (DTMs) are necessary for a variety of forest resource management applications, including watershed management, timber harvest planning, and fire management. Traditional methods for acquiring topographic data typically rely on aerial photogrammetry…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We extend existing stand-level models of forest landowner behavior in the presence of fire risk to include the level and timing of fuel management activities. These activities reduce losses if a stand ignites. Based on simulations, we find the standard result that fire risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value of three types of information about fire risk to a nonindustrial forest landowner: the relationship between fire arrival rates and stand age, the magnitude of fire arrival rates, and the efficacy of fuel reduction treatment. Our model incorporates planting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value to a non-industrial forest landowner of information about the magnitude of fire arrival rates. A simulation based on a model from Amacher et al. [Amacher, G., Malik, A., Haight, R., in press. Not getting burned: the importance of fire prevention in forest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, WeiPing
Methyl mercury (MeHg) concentrations in macroinvertebrates and fish were compared among five lakes in burned catchments and five reference lakes on the western Canadian Boreal Plain to determine the influence of forest fire on MeHg bioaccumulation. Two years after fire, MeHg…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES