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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lavoie, Paré, Bergeron
The surface of the soil in recently harvested or burned lowland black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) sites is composed of a fine mosaic of different bryophytes (mostly Sphagnum spp. and feathermosses), disturbed organic material originating mostly from mosses at different…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Paré, Bergeron
Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) is the most important commercial tree species in the eastern boreal forest of Canada. Only limited work has been conducted to assess the quality of the various substrates that are found on post-disturbed sites prone to paludification…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Rollins, Zhu
Canopy and surface fuels in many fire-prone forests of the United States have increased over the last 70 years as a result of modern fire exclusion policies, grazing, and other land management activities. The Healthy Forest Restoration Act and National Fire Plan establish a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of forest biodiversity because fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dalerum, Boutin, Dunford
Wildfire can rapidly alter the forage availability for boreal ungulates such as woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou Gmelin, 1788). Since fire decreases available lichens, a crucial food source for caribou, it may be an important determinant of caribou range use and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Kielland, Rupp, Hanley
Aim: We examined the interactive effects of mammalian herbivory and fluvial dynamics on vegetation dynamics and composition along the Tanana River in interior Alaska. Location Model parameters were obtained from field studies along the Tanana River, Alaska between Fairbanks (64…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boulanger, Sirois
Saproxylic succession in fire-killed black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.] coarse woody debris (CWD) in northern Quebec is estimated in this study using a 29-yr postfire chrono-sequence. Sampling was performed using both trunk-window traps and rearing from snag and log…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colman, Linn
HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a coupled atmosphere/wildfire behavior model based on conservation of mass, momentum, species, and energy. It combines a three-dimensional transport model that uses a compressible-gas fluid dynamics formulation with a physics-based wildfire model, to represent…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS