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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McKenzie, Peterson, Alvarado
Changes in fire regimes are expected across North America in response to anticipated global climatic changes. Potential changes in large-scale vegetation patterns are predicted as a result of altered fire frequencies. A new vegetation classification was developed by condensing…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
Summarized from introduction and executive summary (do not cite): 'According to the authors, there is a need for managers to be able to predict potential abiotic and biotic fire effects for planned fire prescriptions in order to better fit desired resource objectives. This…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Peterson, Alvarado
Models of vegetation change in response to global warming need to incorporate the effects of disturbance at broad spatial scales. Process-based predictive models, whether for fire behavior or fire effects on vegetation, assume homogeneity of crucial inputs over the spatial scale…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Telitsyn
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sykes, Prentice
Changes in the global carbon (C) cycle caused by human activities have focused the attention of environmental scientists on where and how C is distributed through the terrestrial biosphere. Forests are the largest land reservoir for C (e.g., see Kellomäki and Karjalainen,…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palm, Swift, Woomer
Studies of shifting cultivation and other slash-and-burn systems over the past 30 years have basically confirmed the conceptual model of carbon and nutrient cycling put forth by Nye and Greenland. The model stresses that soil biological processes should not be viewed in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hammond, Yarie
Temperature and precipitation data from weather stations in Alaska and western Canada were analyzed via universal kriging to estimate mean annual and mean growing season temperature and mean annual and mean growing season precipitation values on a 10 km grid in Alaska. These…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belyea, Warner
We examined short-term (decadal) and long-term (millenial) processes of peat accumulation, and the links between them, in a Sphagnum bog in continental Canada. A previously published model of bog growth was fitted to age profiles of the oxic acrotelm (surface, <60 cm thick)…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS