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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Drury
The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment planning. The Joint Fire Science…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ray, Seymour, Scott, Keeton
From the text ... 'Like all forests, we recognize the multiple benefits to society of forests as a renewable resource when managed skillfully. Forestry deserves to compete (and be provided with similar levels of assistance that other 'green' technologies are receiving) for a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barker, Amiro, Kwon, Ewers, Angstmann
The Canadian boreal forest consists of a mosaic of landscapes of varying soil drainage and forest age driven by wildfire. The hydrological consequences are complicated by plant responses to soil moisture and forest age, both potentially influencing evapotranspiration.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marchand, Prairie, Del Giorgio
Natural fires annually decimate up to 1% of the forested area in the boreal region of Quebec, and represent a major structuring force in the region, creating a mosaic of watersheds characterized by large variations in vegetation structure and composition. Here, we investigate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Ali, Carcaillet, Mudelsee, Drobyshev, Hély, Bergeron
We investigated changes in wildfire risk over the 1901-2002 (AD) period with an analysis of broad-scale patterns of July monthly drought code (MDC) variability on 28 forested ecoregions of the North American and Eurasian continents. The MDC is an estimate of the net effect of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frolking, Palace, Clark, Chambers, Shugart, Hurtt
Abrupt forest disturbances generating gaps >0.001 km2 impact roughly 0.4-0.7 million km2 a-1. Fire, windstorms, logging, and shifting cultivation are dominant disturbances; minor contributors are land conversion, flooding, landslides, and avalanches. All can have substantial…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balshi, McGuire, Duffy, Flannigan, Kicklighter, Melillo
The boreal forest contains large reserves of carbon. Across this region, wildfires influence the temporal and spatial dynamics of carbon storage. In this study, we estimate fire emissions and changes in carbon storage for boreal North America over the 21st century. We use a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
From the text ... 'Removing hazardous fuels to reduce the risk of wildfire has become a priority for land managers across the United States. Utilizing biomass taken from forests to cover the cost of fuel reduction is an attractive ideal. Effective utilization could also address…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Krawchuk, de Groot, Wotton, Gowman
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on global fire activity. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wieder, Scott, Kamminga, Vile, Vitt, Bone, Xu, Benscoter, Bhatti
Boreal peatland ecosystems occupy about 3.5 million km2 of the earth's land surface and store between 250 and 455 Pg of carbon (C) as peat. While northern hemisphere boreal peatlands have functioned as net sinks for atmospheric C since the most recent deglaciation, natural and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Langmann, Duncan, Textor, Trentmann, Van der Werf
Gaseous and particulate emissions from vegetation fires substantially modify the atmospheric chemical composition, degrade air quality and can alter weather and climate. The impact of vegetation fire emissions on air pollution and climate has been recognised in the late 1970s.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kane, Vogel
To understand how carbon (C) pools in boreal ecosystems may change with warming, we measured above- and belowground C pools and C increment along a soil temperature gradient across 16 mature upland black spruce (Picea mariana Mill. [B·S.P]) forests in interior Alaska. Total…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norris, Quideau, Bhatti, Wasylishen, MacKenzie
Boreal forest soils represent a considerable reservoir of carbon on a global basis. The objective of this study was to compare the response of soil organic carbon (OC) to disturbance along two jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) chronosequences of either fire or harvest origin.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smithwick, Ryan, Kashian, Romme, Tinker, Turner
The interaction between disturbance and climate change and resultant effects on ecosystem carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) fluxes are poorly understood. Here, we model (using CENTURY version 4.5) how climate change may affect C and N fluxes among mature and regenerating lodgepole…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Okin, Parsons, Herrick, Bestelmeyer, Peters, Fredrickson
Arid and semiarid regions cover more than 40% of Earths land surface. Desertification, or broadscale land degradation in drylands, is a major environmental hazard facing inhabitants of the world's deserts as well as an important component of global change. There is no unifying…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chertov, Bhatti, Komarov, Mikhailov, Bykhovets
The results of EFIMOD Simulations for black spruce (Picea mariana [Miller]) forests in Central Canada show that climate warming, fire, harvesting and insects significantly influence net primary productivity (NPP), soil respiration (Rs), net ecosystem production (NEP) and pools…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The soils underlying the 12 Fire and Fire Surrogates Network include six soil orders and >50 named soil series. Across the network, pretreatment soils varied from 3.7 to 7.1 in pH, and exhibited ranges of twofold in bulk density, fourfold in soil organic C (SOC) content, 10-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butry
This paper examines the effect wildfire mitigation has on broad-scale wildfire behavior. Each year, hundreds of million of dollars are spent on fire suppression and fuels management applications, yet little is known, quantitatively, of the returns to these programs in terms of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
de Groot, Pritchard, Lynham
In many forest types, over half of the total stand biomass is located in the forest floor. Carbon emissions during wildland fire are directly related to biomass (fuel) consumption. Consumption of forest floor fuel varies widely and is the greatest source of uncertainty in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Wright, Prichard
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (FERA) of the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, is an interdisciplinary team of scientists that conduct primary research on wildland fire and provide decision support for fire hazard and smoke management.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pausas, Keeley
Ecologists, biogeographers, and paleobotanists have long thought that climate and soils controlled the distribution of ecosystems, with the role of fire getting only limited appreciation. Here we review evidence from different disciplines demonstrating that wildfire appeared…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Carlson, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Doyle, Harrison, Johnston, Keeley, Krawchuk, Kull, Marston, Moritz, Prentice, Roos, Scott, Swetnam, Van der Werf, Pyne
Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes, including vegetation distribution and structure, the carbon cycle, and climate. Although humans and fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pickett, Isackson, Wunder, Fletcher, Butler, Weise
Combustion experiments were performed over a flat-flame burner that provided the heat source for multiple leaf samples. Interactions of the combustion behavior between two leaf samples were studied. Two leaves were placed in the path of the flat-flame burner, with the top leaf 2…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS