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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Coen, Mahalingam, Milford, Clark, Daily
Visible and infrared (IR) observations of flame structure were made of the Frostfire controlled burn carried out 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were taken from Caribou Peak, facing the burn area from the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chew, O'Hara, Jones
A number of modeling tools are required to go from short-term treatments to long-term objectives expressed as desired future conditions. Three models are used in an example that starts with determining desired stand level structure and ends with the implementation of treatments…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daily, Mahalingam, Milford, Khunatorn, Clark, Coen, Radke, Sandberg, Riggan
To guide development of coupled atmosphere-fire models, a suite of instruments was assembled to examine the dynamics of wildfires. Visible and Infrared (IR) imaging and UV through near IR spectral observations were made of the Frostfire prescribed burn carried out 8-10 July 1999…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Brittain
FireFamily Plus is the new software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). While the software and packaging are new, many of the reports are not. FireFamily Plus…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Botelho, Rego, Ryan
The use of prescribed burning as a tool for forest fire prevention is becoming a more common practice in Pinus pinaster plantations of Northern Portugal. Prescribed fire is used to reduce the understory vegetation with the goal of reducing fuel hazard and the potential for stand…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
With the increasing use of prescribed fire, predicting the potential impacts are becoming more and more important. Of great concern are the effects of smoke on human health and visibility. To help land managers anticipate and plan for potential trajectories and dispersion of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Amiro, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network (CFS-FRN) and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, Fosberg, Wotton, Lynham, Ryan
After a decade of speculation and debate, there is now a general scientific consensus that rising greenhouse gas levels in the earth’s atmosphere will result in significant climate change over the next century. The recent statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lenihan, Sandberg, Neilson
The Joint Fire Science Program is funding the development of a new fuels characterization system for the contiguous United States and Alaska. The new system, based on Fuel Characteristic Classes (FCCs), will provide a broad range of realistic fuel property values at a level of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
French, Kasischke, Stocks, Mudd, Martell, Lee
In boreal forests, which contain large amounts of the world's terrestrial organic carbon, fire is a natural and fundamental disturbance regime essential in controlling many ecosystem processes. As a result of predicted climate change in the future, the fire regime and,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shugart, Clark, Hill
From the Conclusion (p.402) ... 'Models provide the ability to simulate processes that occur at temporal and spatial scales that are difficult to empirically investigate. We have attempted to provide the framework of a set of nested models that can address multilevel boreal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Martell, Flannigan, Wang
From the Introduction (p.357) ... 'Fire is a significant component of most boreal forest ecosystems. It is important to understand its occurrence and spread to assess the potential impact of global climate change on boreal forest ecosystems. This chapter presents an overview of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the Introduction (p.347) ... 'It is important to remember that except over very small spatial and temporal scales, it is impossible to directly measure the carbon present in a specific region of the boreal forest as well as that being exchanged with the atmosphere. In…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the text (p.238) ... 'The data sets and collection techniques discussed in this section play a central role in efforts to quantify the effects of fire and climate change on the boreal forest carbon budget. These data sets/techniques provide the baseline information required…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Houghton, Hackler, Lawrence
1 Areas burned annually in the United States between 1700 and 1990 were derived from published estimates of pre-European burning rates and from wildfire statistics of the US Forest Service. Changes in live and dead vegetation following fire and fire exclusion were determined for…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Linking a dynamic vegetation model with the national fuels characterization system [poster abstract]
The Joint Fire Science Program is funding the development of a new fuels characterization system for the contiguous United States and Alaska. The new system, based on Fuel Characteristic Classes (FCCs), will provide a broad range of realistic fuel property values at a level of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Harvey, Tonn
Fire, competition for light and water, and native forest pests have interacted for millennia in western forests to produce a countryside dominated by seral species of conifers. These conifer-dominated ecosystems exist in six kinds of biotic communities. We divided one of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morrissey, Livingston, Zoltai
From the Introduction ... 'In this chapter, we review the role and importance of climate and wildfires in northern peatlands with regard to carbon accumulation and emissions. This review builds on our recent analysis of the role of wildfires in North American peatlands (Zoltai…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harden, Trumbore, Stocks, Hirsch, Gower, O'Neill, Kasischke
To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long‐term averages for C exchange in boreal forests near Thompson, Manitoba. Soil drainage as defined by water table, moss cover, and permafrost dynamics, is the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGuire, Meier, Zhuang, Macander, Rupp, Kasischke, Verbyla, Kicklighter, Melillo
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neuenschwander, Ryan, Gollberg
From the Preface...'Three factors provided the impetus for holding this conference and workshop. First, wildland fire managers are tasked with increasing the emphasis on prescribed fire and other fuel management techniques as part of an effort to reintroduce fire as an important…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Flannigan, Corns
Changes in climatic conditions may influence both forest biomass accumulation rates and natural disturbance regimes. While changes in biomass accumulation of forests under various climatic conditions have been described by yield equations, large uncertainties exist with regard…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enache, Prairie
Biogeochemical effects of fire events were analysed in a small humic kettle lake. Lac Francis (claybelt area. Abitibi, northwestern Quebec), using diatom-based quantitative inference models developed to reconstruct past pH. total phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS