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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dioumaeva, Trumbore, Schuur, Goulden, Litvak, Hirsch
The response of large stores of carbon in boreal forest soils to global warming is a major uncertainty in predicting the future carbon budget. We measured the temperature dependence of decomposition for upland boreal peat under black spruce forest with sphagnum and feather moss…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Curatolo, Murphy
The frequency of caribou, Rangifer tarandus, crossing of roads, pipeline, and pipelines along roads was studied in the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk oil fields on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Caribou crossed an elevated pipeline or a road with a frequency similar to the control…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conny, Slater
In the boreal forest, high-intensity crown fires account for an overwhelming proportion of the area burned yearly. Quantifying the amount of black carbon (BC) from boreal crown fires in Canada is essential for assessing the effect on regional climate from natural wildfire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chambers, Chapin
Although fire is crucial to the functioning and diversity of boreal forests, the second largest biome on Earth, there are few detailed studies of the effects of disturbance on surface-atmosphere interactions in these regions. We conducted tower-based micrometeorological…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caldararo
The present text is a summary of research on the relationship between forest fires and human activities. Numerous theories have been created to explain changes in forests during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, and a general understanding has developed in the past 50…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
The influence of climate on the population dynamics of trees must be inferred from indirect sources of information because the long lifespans of trees preclude direct observation of population growth and decline. Important insights about these processes come from 1) observations…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Brunzell, Mudd, Tukman
This study is an extension of earlier research which demonstrated the utility of ERS SAR data for detection and monitoring of fire-disturbed boreal forests of Alaska. Fire scars were mappable in Alaska due to the ecological changes that occur post-burn including increased soil…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boudreault, Bergeron, Gauthier, Drapeau
We sampled 22 black spruce (Picea mariana) - feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi) sites (80 to >200 years) to describe and assess the diversity of bryophyte and lichen communities as a function of time since fire and site characteristics. Old growth had no more species than…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower, Norman
Specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf area index (LAI) were estimated using site-specific allometric equations for a boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. Stands ranged from 3 to 131 years in age and had soils that were categorized as…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower
Allometric equations were developed relating aboveground biomass, coarse root biomass, and sapwood area to stem diameter at 17 study sites located in the boreal forests near Thompson, Man. The six species studied were trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), paper birch (…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower
This study examined the distribution and respiration dynamics of woody debris (WD) in a black spruce-dominated fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The chronosequence included seven stands that burned between 1870 and 1998; each stand contained separate well-drained…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Banfield, Bhatti, Jiang, Apps
Aboveground biomass, forest floor, and soil carbon (C) stocks were estimated for a transitional boreal region in western Alberta using available forest inventory data, model simulation, field observed plot data, and soil polygon (area averaged) information from the Canadian soil…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fantin, Morin
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Little, Pluth, Corns, Gilmore
After wildfire in the boreal forest, storage of organic carbon (C) begins with the accumulation of forest floor material. Soil properties of Gray Luvisols were studied to determine the differences in development along three toposequences. Our central hypothesis is that slope…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christodoulakis, Arianoutsou-Faraggitaki, Psaras
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Patterson, McMahon, Ward
Data on the optical absorption properties (expressed as a specific absorption, Ba) of the smoke emissions from fires with forest fuels have been determined for a series of low-intensity field fires and a series of laboratory scale fires. The Ba data have been used to estimate…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
French
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhuang, McGuire, O'Neill, Harden, Romanovsky, Yarie
In this study, the dynamics of soil thermal, hydrologic, and ecosystem processes were coupled to project how the carbon budgets of boreal forests will respond to changes in atmospheric CO2, climate, and fire disturbance. The ability of the model to simulate gross primary…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seely, Welham, Kimmins
The effect of alternative harvesting practices on long-term ecosystem productivity and carbon sequestration was investigated with the ecosystem simulation model, FORECAST. Three tree species, white spruce (Picea glauca), trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides), and lodgepole pine…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page, Siegert, Rieley, Boehm, Jaya, Limin
Tropical peatlands are one of the largest near-surface reserves of terrestrial organic carbon, and hence their stability has important implications for climate change. In their natural state, lowland tropical peatlands support a luxuriant growth of peat swamp forest overlying…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kajii, Kato, Streets, Tsai, Shvidenko, Nilsson, McCallum, Minko, Abushenko, Altyntsev, Khodzer
The NOAA 12 advanced very high resolution radiometer detected extensive forest fires in boreal Siberia and northern Mongolia during April through October 1998, a year of extremely dry weather, in particular, in the Russian Far East. Analysis of the satellite data has been…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Williams
A study was carried out to assess the variability in trace gas emission from several factors and to estimate the immediate impact of fire on carbon exchange. Using geospatial data, a model of emission was developed for three carbon-based gases, CO2, CO, and CH4, released during…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oechel, Van Cleve
The bryophytes of the boreal forest are interesting in that they may form a minor element of the community in terms of biomass, while simultaneously being a major element in terms of cover and primary productivity. Even more importantly, the mosses may control ecosystem function…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patoine, Pinel-Alloul, Prepas
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
Foliar high heat contents were determined by standard oxygen bomb calorimetry in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.), black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) from samples collected in…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS