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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fauria, Johnson
The area burned in the North American boreal forest is controlled by the frequency of mid-tropospheric blocking highs that cause rapid fuel drying. Climate controls the area burned through changing the dynamics of large-scale teleconnection patterns (Pacific Decadal Oscillation/…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marshall, Blair, Peters, Okin, Rango, Williams
Climate is changing across a range of scales, from local to global, but ecological consequences remain difficult to understand and predict. Such projections are complicated by change in the connectivity of resources, particularly water, nutrients, and propagules, that influences…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Jandt
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) began studies of the winter range of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH) in 1981. Twenty permanent vegetation transects were deployed within the Buckland River valley on the northeastern side of the Seward Peninsula. Additional sites added…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Donovan
Making input decisions under climate uncertainty often involves two-stage methods that use expensive and opaque transfer functions. This article describes an alternative, single-stage approach to such decisions using forecasting methods. The example shown is for preseason fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Myers-Smith, Harden, Wilmking, Fuller, McGuire, Chapin
To determine the influence of fire and thermokarst in a boreal landscape, we investigated peat cores within and adjacent to a permafrost collapse feature on the Tanana River Floodplain of Interior Alaska. Radioisotope dating, diatom assemblages, plant macrofossils, charcoal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These research topics were distributed throughout the interagency fire and land management agencies in 2008. Respondents prioritized the topics within each category. The AWFCG Research Committee recommended rankings for topics which had no clear ranking dominance to the AWFCG. '…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wirth, Lichstein, Dushoff, Chen, Chapin
Local distributions of black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) are largely determined by edaphic and topographic factors in the interior of Alaska, with black spruce dominant on moist permafrost sites and white spruce dominant on drier upland sites. Given…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tinner, Bigler, Gedye, Gregory-Eaves, Jones, Kaltenrieder, Krahenbuhl, Hu
Recent observations and model simulations have highlighted the sensitivity of the forest-tundra ecotone to climatic forcing. In contrast, paleoecological studies have not provided evidence of tree-line fluctuations in response to Holocene climatic changes in Alaska, suggesting…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frequent fires in ancient shrub tundra: implications of paleorecords for arctic environmental change
Understanding feedbacks between terrestrial and atmospheric systems is vital for predicting the consequences of global change, particularly in the rapidly changing Arctic. Fire is a key process in this context, but the consequences of altered fire regimes in tundra ecosystems…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawrence, Slater, Tomas, Holland, Deser
Coupled climate models and recent observational evidence suggest that Arctic sea ice may undergo abrupt periods of loss during the next fifty years. Here, we evaluate how rapid sea ice loss affects terrestrial Arctic climate and ground thermal state in the Community Climate…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Schuur, Chapin, Walker
The boreal forest is the largest terrestrial biome in North America and holds a large portion of the world's reactive soil carbon. Therefore, understanding soil carbon accumulation on a landscape or regional scale across the boreal forest is useful for predicting future soil…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Randerson, McGuire, Foley, Field
Ecosystems influence climate through multiple pathways, primarily by changing the energy, water, and greenhouse-gas balance of the atmosphere. Consequently, efforts to mitigate climate change through modification of one pathway, as with carbon in the Kyoto Protocol, only…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockli, Rutishauser, Dragoni, O'Keefe, Thornton, Jolly, Lu, Denning
Predicting the global carbon and water cycle requires a realistic representation of vegetation phenology in climate models. However most prognostic phenology models are not yet suited for global applications, and diagnostic satellite data can be uncertain and lack predictive…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seli, Ager, Crookston, Finney, Bahro, Agee, McHugh
A simulation system was developed to explore how fuel treatments placed in random and optimal spatial patterns affect the growth and behavior of large fires when implemented at different rates over the course of five decades. The system consists of several command line programs…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baron, Joyce, Griffith, Kareiva, Keller, Palmer, Peterson, Scott
This report provides a preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources in the United States. The term 'adaptation' in this document refers to adjustments in human social systems (e.g., management) in response to climate stimuli and their…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
He, Keane, Iverson
Forest landscape models have become important tools for understanding large-scale and long-term landscape (spatial) processes such as climate change, fire, windthrow, seed dispersal, insect outbreak, disease propagation, forest harvest, and fuel treatment, because controlled…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a suite of computer modeling tools for predicting the long-term effects of alternative forest management actions. FVS was developed in the early 1980s and is used throughout the United Sates and British Columbia. The Third FVS conference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Lenihan, Drapek, Neilson
The MC1 DGVM has been used in two international model comparison projects, VEMAP (Vegetation Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project) and VINCERA (Vulnerability and Impacts of North American forests to Climate Change: Ecosystem Responses and Adaptation). The latest version of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joyce, Blate, Littell, McNulty, Millar, Moser, Neilson, O'Halloran, Peterson
The National Forest System (NFS) is composed of 155 national forests (NFs) and 20 national grasslands (NGs), which encompass a wide range of ecosystems, harbor much of the nation?s biodiversity, and provide myriad goods and services. The mission of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baron, Allen, Fleishman, Gunderson, McKenzie, Meyerson, Oropeza, Stephenson
Covering about 4% of the United States, the 338,000 km2 of protected areas in the National Park System contain representative landscapes of all of the nation's biomes and ecosystems. The U.S. National Park Service Organic Act established the National Park System in 1916 to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Avise, Lamb, Salathe, Mass, Guenther, Wiedinmyer, Lamarque, O'Neill, McKenzie, Larkin
A comprehensive numerical modeling framework was developed to estimate the effects of collective global changes upon ozone pollution in the US in 2050. The framework consists of the global climate and chemistry models, PCM (Parallel Climate Model) and MOZART-2 (Model for Ozone…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Turetsky, Ottmar, French, Hoy, Kane
We evaluated the utility of the composite burn index (CBI) for estimating fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests by comparing data from 81 plots located in 2004 and 2005 fire events. We collected data to estimate the CBI and quantify crown damage, percent of trees…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta
Burned area is a critical input to the algorithms of biomass burning emissions and understanding variability in fire activity due to climate change but it is difficult to estimate. This study presents a robust algorithm to reconstruct the patterns in burned areas across…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alo, Wang
A number of previous modeling studies have assessed the implications of projected CO2-induced climate change for future terrestrial ecosystems. However, although current understanding of possible long-term response of vegetation to elevated CO2 and CO2-induced climate change in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES