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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Johnstone
Recent studies [Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., Kasischke, E.S., Riordan, K., Brunzell, S.M., Nolan, M., Hyer, E.J., Slawski, J.J., Medvecz, M., Walters, T., and Ames, S. (in press). Remote monitoring of spatial and temporal surface soil moisture in fire disturbed boreal forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyer, Allen, Kasischke
Boreal forest fires are highly variable in space and time and also have variable vertical injection properties. We compared a University of Maryland Chemistry and Transport Model (UMD-CTM) simulation of boreal forest fire CO in the summer of 2000 to surface observations from the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyer, Kasischke, Allen
The quality of temporal information from daily burned area inputs was evaluated using a transport and chemistry experiment. Carbon monoxide emissions from boreal forest fires were estimated using burned area inputs with daily resolution. Averaging of emissions data to create 30-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leung, Logan, Park, Hyer, Kasischke, Streets, Yurganov
Carbon monoxide reached record high levels in the northern extratropics in the late summer and fall of 1998 as a result of anomalously large boreal fires in eastern Russia and North America. We investigated the effects of these fires on CO and tropospheric oxidants using a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Kasischke, Valentine, Turetsky, McGuire
We measured characteristics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and black carbon (BC) along opposed north- and south-facing toposequences in recent (2004) and old (~1860-1950) burn sites throughout interior Alaska. Surface fuel consumption did not vary between different topographic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Peters, Brubaker, Gavin
Interpreting sediment-charcoal records is challenging because there is little information linking charcoal production from fires to charcoal accumulation in lakes. We present a numerical model simulating the major processes involved in this pathway. The model incorporates the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg, Reynolds, Keane, James, Salter
We present a decision support application that evaluates danger of severe wildland fire and prioritizes subwatersheds for vegetation and fuels treatment. We demonstrate the use of the system with an example from the Rocky Mountain region in the State of Utah; a planning area of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hegedus, Akesson, Horvath
The effects of forest fire smoke on sky polarization and animal orientation are practically unknown. Using full-sky imaging polarimetry, we therefore measured the celestial polarization pattern under a smoky sky in Fairbanks, Alaska, during the forest fire season in August 2005…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lloyd, Fastie, Eisen
Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) is a common treeline species in eastern Canada but rare at treeline in Alaska. We investigated fire and substrate effects on black spruce populations at six sites along a 74 km transect in the Brooks Range, Alaska. Our southern sites, on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gebert, Calkin, Yoder
The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gavin, Hallett, Hu, Lertzman, Prichard, Brown, Lynch, Bartlein, Peterson
Millennial-scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range of variability. Charcoal records from lake sediments and soil profiles are well suited for…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flint
Forest disturbances caused by insects can lead to other disturbances, risks, and changes across landscapes. Evaluating the human dimensions of such disturbances furthers understanding of integrated changes in natural and social systems. This article examines the effects of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fitzgerald
After the record-breaking fire seasons of 2004-2005, fire and public land managers knew the needed a proactive approach to hazardous fuel reduction, particularly in the black spruce forests of Alaska's interior.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fitzgerald
Alaska's climate is changing. Strong linkages between climate, fire, and vegetation imply that fire's sensitivity to global change could be more important than the direct effects of climatic warming on terrestrial ecosystems.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fenton, Beland, De Blois, Bergeron
Boreal forest bryophyte communities are made up of distinct colonies of feathermosses that cover the forest floor. In some black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) boreal forests, Sphagnum spp. establish colonies on the forest floor 30-40 years after the feathermosses, and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fenton, Bergeron
In eastern Canada, boreal forests develop structural diversity in association with time since stand replacing fire. In some regions, this is associated with significant changes in the bryophyte community (Sphagnum moss invasion) and paludification (thick waterlogged forest floor…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fege, Absher
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Didion, Fortin, Fall
Effective forest ecosystem-based management requires a thorough understanding of the interactions between anthropogenic and natural disturbance processes over larger spatial and temporal scales than stands and rotation ages. Because harvesting does not preclude fire, it is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
DeLong
Ecologically based landscape units and associated characteristics of natural disturbance (e.g., seral stage and patch size distribution) were recently developed for the northeast corner of British Columbia and used as the basis for establishing guidance and policy for natural…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Czimczik, Trumbore
One predicted positive feedback of increasing temperatures in the boreal region is carbon (C) loss through enhanced microbial decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM). The degree to which temperature sensitivity for decomposition varies across a range of C-substrates remains…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duffy, Epting, Graham, Rupp, McGuire
Wildland fire is the dominant large-scale disturbance mechanism in the Alaskan boreal forest, and it strongly influences forest structure and function. In this research, patterns of burn severity in the Alaskan boreal forest are characterised using 24 fires. First, the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Duck, Firanski, Millet, Goldstein, Allan, Holzinger, Worsnop, White, Stohl, Dickinson, Van Donkelaar
Emissions from forest fires in Alaska and the Yukon Territory were observed at Chebogue Point, Nova Scotia (43.7°N, 66.1°W), between 11 and 13 July 2004. Smoke aerosols were first detected in the free troposphere by a Raman lidar and extended up to 8 km altitude. The plume was…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crevoisier, Shevliakova, Gloor, Wirth, Pacala
Boreal regions are an important component of the global carbon cycle because they host large stocks of aboveground and belowground carbon. Since boreal forest evolution is closely related to fire regimes, shifts in climate are likely to induce changes in ecosystems, potentially…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cook, Savage, Turquety, Carver, O'Connor, Heckel, Stewart, Whalley, Parker, Schlager, Singh, Avery, Sachse, Brune, Richter, Burrows, Purvis, Lewis, Reeves, Monks, Levine, Pyle
Intercontinental Transport of Ozone and Precursors (ITOP) ( part of International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT)) was an intense research effort to measure long-range transport of pollution across the North Atlantic and its impact on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cobb, Langor, Spence
Rising societal demands for forest resources along with existing natural disturbance regimes suggest that sustainable forest management will increasingly depend on better understanding the cumulative effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. In North America, for…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS