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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mapping wildfire severity in boreal forest based on aerial photography and remote sensing [abstract]
The paper presents the results of mapping fire severity for the FROSTFIRE experiment at different spatial scales. The finest spatial data was collected before the fire on a grid of 160 intensive and 226 dispersed ground plots designed to study fuel bed and vegetation…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg
Fire is a critical disturbance process in determining the structure and distribution of the boreal forest. Fire in the boreal forest typically replaces most of the dominant vegetation cover, liberates substantial carbon and other elements to the atmosphere and stream flow, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Kafka
Sustainable forest management in many of Canada*s forest ecosystems requires minimizing the socioeconomic impacts of fire and maximizing its ecological benefits. More specifically, while significant losses of life, property, and natural resources from wildfire are generally not…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
In forests, termites serve as ''soil engineers,'' translocating mineral soil to the surface, constructing macropores to improve water infiltration, increase soil minerals and organic carbon, facilitate the growth of microbes and affect the growth of vegetation. The future…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerner, Giai, Huang, Miesel
This study assessed the first-year effect of three ecosystem restoration treatments (prescribed fire, mechanical thinning, and their combination) on soil enzyme activity, soil N transformations, and C:N ratios of soil organic matter and mineral soil in eight North American…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The soils underlying the 12 Fire and Fire Surrogates Network include six soil orders and >50 named soil series. Across the network, pretreatment soils varied from 3.7 to 7.1 in pH, and exhibited ranges of twofold in bulk density, fourfold in soil organic C (SOC) content, 10-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The Fire and Fire Surrogates (FFS) network is composed of 12 forest sites that span the continental United States, all of which historically had frequent low-severity fire. The goal of the FFS study was to assess the efficacy of three management treatments (prescribed fire,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Freeman, Stohlgren, Hunter, Omi, Martinson, Chong, Browns
Fire is a natural part of most forest ecosystems in the western United States, but its effects on nonnative plant invasion have only recently been studied. Also, forest managers are engaging in fuel reduction projects to lessen fire severity, often without considering potential…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weiss-Penzias, Jaffe, Swartzendruber, Hafner, Chand, Prestbo
Total airborne mercury (TAM) and carbon monoxide (CO) were measured in 22 pollution transport ''events'' at Mt. Bachelor Observatory (MBO), USA (2.8km asl) between March 2004 and September 2005. Submicron particulate scattering (ssp), ozone (O3), and nitrogen oxides (NOy) were…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Petrone, Hinzman, Shibata, Jones, Boone
Permafrost and fire are important regulators of hydrochemistry and landscape structure in the discontinuous permafrost region of interior Alaska. We examined the influence of permafrost and a prescribed burn on concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lardner, Wright, Cohen, Curry, MacFarlane
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jacobs
From the text ... 'Although we consider the use of fire essential for maintenance of PJ [pinyon-juniper] savanna structure, there are inherent risks to the herbaceous understory. In particular, we noted that turf-forming individuals of blue grama with excessive amounts of dead…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heringer, Jacques
Burning of native pasture affects soil, botanical composition, species development, and forage quality. It was studied five management systems of native pasture under grazing condition: biennial burning for more than 100 years; without burning for 32 years with or without mowing…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neary, Overby, Gottfried, Perry
Fires can produce a wide range of changes in nutrient cycles of forest, shrub, and grassland ecosystems depending on fire severity, fire frequency, vegetation, and climate. These changes can be beneficial when fires increase the availability of plant nutrients, and deleterious…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Certini
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez-Vila, Tinoco, Almendros, Martin
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Pendleton, Pendleton
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scheuner, Makeschin, Wells, Carter
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacKenzie, Schmidt, Bedford
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smithwick, Turner, Mack, Chapin
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dods
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'Fused inorganic tubes caused by lightning strokes to the ground, called fulgurites, are abundant in many portions of the earth. Ample evidence of fossil fires, called fusain, lies buried in the coal beds of all the coal-forming periods known to geology. For…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Treseder, Mack, Cross
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manies, Harden, Wickland
Boreal forests contain a significant portion of the world's terrestrial carbon in their surface organics and soil horizons. Fire, the main disturbance in these forests, plays an important role in regulating the flow of carbon in these landscapes. To better understand the effects…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lardner, Wright, Cohen, Curry, MacFarlane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS