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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brown, Clark, Grimm, Donovan, Mueller
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fleming, Candau, McAlpine, de Groot
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez-Perez, Gonzalez-Vila, Almendros, Knicker
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kochtubajda, Flannigan, Gyakum, Stewart
Forest fires are a common disturbance within the boreal ecosystem of the Mackenzie Basin during the warm season. These fires threaten human life, property, and valuable commercial resources, and pose the greatest danger for fire managers. Fire is the dominant disturbance regime…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Conny, Klouda, Slater, Cofer, Winstead
During each summer of 1997 through 2001, a series of experimental forest fires in Canada's Northwest Territories, collectively known as the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), provided a unique opportunity to collect emissions that closely represent those of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benscoter, Wieder, Vitt, Halsey
Fire in peatlands directly releases carbon to the atmosphere through combustion of biomass. Assuming that 1,470 km2 of peatland burns annually in boreal, continental, western Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), projected carbon losses of 2.2 to 4.4 kg m2 would result…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Net primary production and net ecosystem production of a boreal black spruce wildfire chronosequence
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Treseder, Mack, Cross
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Cary, Davies, Flannigan, Gardner, Lavorel, Lenihan, Li, Rupp
A classification of spatial simulation models of fire and vegetation dynamics (landscape fire succession models or LFSMs) is presented. The classification was developed to provide a foundation for comparing models and to help identify the appropriate fire and vegetation…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Chapin, Foote, Kemmett, Price, Viereck
This paper presents data on early postfire tree regeneration. The data were obtained from repeated observations of recently burned forest stands along the Yukon-British Columbia border and in interior Alaska. Postfire measurements of tree density were made periodically for 20-30…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ice, Neary, Adams
Wildfire can cause water repellency and consume plant canopy, surface plants and litter, and structure-enhancing organics within soil. Changes in soil moisture, structure, and infiltration can accelerate surface runoff, erosion, sediment transport, and deposition. Intense…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fitzgerald
The summer of 2004 was a hot and smoky one for Alaska's Interior, focusing residents' attention on fire management issues. Natural regeneration of the boreal forest after fire literally has made the forests that are managed today. Forestry professor Scott Rupp and others are…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fall, Fortin, Kneeshaw, Yamasaki, Messier, Bouthillier, Smyth
At the landscape scale, one of the key indicators of sustainable forest management is the age-class distribution of stands, since it provides a coarse synopsis of habitat potential, structural complexity, and stand volume, and it is directly modified by timber extraction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
DellaSala, Williams, Williams, Franklin
Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
de Groot, Bothwell, Taylor, Wotton, Stocks, Alexander
The effect of crown fires on Pinus banksiana Lamb. regeneration was studied in separate forest- and cone-burning experiments. Nine plots (0.56-2.25 ha) of jack pine trees near Fort Providence, Northwest Territories, were burned using crown fires to determine the effects of fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
The unknowns in wildland fire phenomenology lead to a simplified empirical model approach for predicting the onset of crown fires in live coniferous forests on level terrain. Model parameterization is based on a data set (n=71) generated from conducting outdoor experimental…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Costa, Sandberg
A mathematical model is developed describing the natural smoldering of logs. It is considered the steady one-dimensional propagation of infinitesimally thin fronts of drying, pyrolysis, and char oxidation in a horizontal semi-infinite log. Expressions for the burn rates,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Wildland-urban fire destruction depends on homes igniting and thus requires an examination of the ignition requirements. A physical-theoretical model, based on severe case conditions and ideal heat transfer characteristics, estimated wood wall ignition occurrence from flame…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coen, Mahalingam, Daily
A thorough understanding of crown-fire dynamics requires a clear picture of the three-dimensional winds in and near the fire, including the flaming combustion zone and the convective updrafts produced by the fire. These observations and analyses present a unique high-spatial-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Callaghan, Bergeron, Fukuda, Johnstone, Juday, Zimov
Changes in boreal climate of the magnitude projected for the 21st century have always caused vegetation changes large enough to be societally important. However, the rates and patterns of vegetation change are difficult to predict. We review evidence suggesting that these…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brooks, D'Antonio, Richardson, Grace, Keeley, DiTomaso, Hobbs, Pellant, Pyke
Plant invasions are widely recognized as significant threats to biodiversity conservation worldwide. One way invasions can affect native ecosystems is by changing fuel properties, which can in turn affect fire behavior and, ultimately, alter fire regime characteristics such as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
Can wildland fire behavior really be predicted? That depends on how accurate you expect the prediction to be. The minute-by-minute movement of a fire will probably never be predictable- certainly not from weather conditions forecasted many hours before the fire. Nevertheless,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butler, Cohen, Latham, Schuette, Sopko, Shannon, Jimenez, Bradshaw
This study presents spatially and temporally resolved measurements of air temperatures and radiant energy fluxes in a boreal forest (Pinus banksiana-Picea mariana) crown fire in Northwest Territories, Canada. Measurements were collected 3.1, 6.2, 9.2, 12.3, and 13.8 m above the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riccardi, Prichard, Ottmar, Sandberg
Wildfires are a natural, reoccurring, and essential component of ecological communities worldwide. Decades of fire exclusion and altered fire regimes have had substantial ecological consequences, including increased fuel loads. Fuel loads are diverse in their physical attributes…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Payne, Stocks, Robinson, Wasey, Strapp
Combustion aerosol particles from boreal forest fires were quantified to facilitate investigation of the potential effects of increased fire activity caused by global warming, by providing data inputs for global and regional climate modelling of the direct and indirect effects.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS