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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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French, de Groot, Jenkins, Rogers, Alvarado, Amiro, de Jong, Goetz, Hoy, Hyer, Keane, Law, McKenzie, McNulty, Ottmar, Perez-Salicrup, Randerson, Robertson, Turetsky
Research activities focused on estimating the direct emissions of carbon from wildland fires across North America are reviewed as part of the North American Carbon Program disturbance synthesis. A comparison of methods to estimate the loss of carbon from the terrestrial…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Kaduk, Baltzer, Wooster, Mottram, Hartley, Lynham, Studens, Curry, Stocks
To fully understand the carbon (C) cycle impacts of forest fires, both C emissions during the fire and post-disturbance fluxes need to be considered. The latter are dominated by soil surface CO2 flux (Fs), which is still subject to large uncertainties. Fire is generally regarded…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soja, Al-Saadi, Pouliot, Kittaka, Zhang, Raffuse, Wiedinmyer
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
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
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
Langner, Siegert
South-east Asia's tropical rainforests are experiencing the highest rate of deforestation worldwide and fire is one of the most important drivers of forest loss and subsequent carbon dioxide emissions. In this study, we analyzed all fire events in Borneo recorded by satellites…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benscoter, Vitt
Peatland ground layer species composition is intricately tied to ecosystem function (for example, carbon storage). As the primary disturbance in boreal bogs, wildfire selectively removes the ground layer vegetation, creating heterogeneous habitat conditions and initiating…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Hall, Murphy, Verbyla, Hoy, Allen
There has been considerable interest in the recent literature regarding the assessment of post-fire effects on forested areas within the North American boreal forest. Assessing the physical and ecological effects of fire in boreal forests has far-reaching implications for a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urquiza-Haas, Dolman, Peres
Aboveground biomass is a key variable in understanding the role of tropical forests in the global carbon cycle. The forests of the Yucatan Peninsula form part of the largest remaining tract of Mesoamerican forests, where the predominant land use is still slash-and-bum…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoue, Gong, Stocks
The present paper proposes an original approach to estimate gaseous and particulate emissions from boreal forest fires based on the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction ( FBP) System. The FBP System permits calculation of fuel consumption and rate of spread for individual…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Mudd, Stocks, Kasischke, Barry, Alexander, French
From the Introduction (p.274) ... 'There is currently a great deal of interest in understanding and quantifying the extent of natural and human-caused fire in the different biomes throughout the world. In Chapter 8, Shvidenko and Nilsson examined the fire statistics for the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer, Stocks
From the Conclusions (p.63) ... 'The causes and impacts of fire in the boreal Eurasian region are multifaceted due to its rich cultural diversity and a broad range of socioeconomic and environmental conditions. Thus, it is impossible to draw any generalized conclusion or develop…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the text (p.3) ... 'The purpose of this book is to present an overview of our current understanding on the interrelationship between fire, climate, and carbon cycling in boreal forest. The chapters are organized into four sections. The chapters in the first section are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Friedli, Radke, Payne, McRae, Lynham, Blake
We studied an upland boreal forest plot located in the Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, to measure the total mercury content in vegetation and organic soil with a view to assessing the potential for mercury release during forest fires. The study area consists…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Randerson, Liu, Flanner, Chambers, Jin, Hess, Pfister, Mack, Treseder, Welp, Chapin, Harden, Goulden, Lyons, Neff, Schuur, Zender
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
Year: 2006
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
Asselin, Payette
The basic unit of the forest-tundra landscape is a toposequence extending from a wet, forested valley to a xeric, deforested hilltop; the contact zone between these two environments being called a subarctic tree line. Dendrochronological analysis of living, dead, and subfossil…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Toma, Ishida, Matius
Between 1988 and 2000, changes in the above-ground biomass (AGB) of trees in an East Kalimantan lowland forest, damaged by fires in 1982-83 and 1998, were estimated using allometric functions and an annual inventory of stem diameter. The original vegetation of the study site was…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward, Queen, Seielstad, Hao
Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from vegetation fires can greatly affect local and regional air quality. The near real-time information on the magnitude of fires, the amount of pollutants emitted, and their impact on air quality is critical to fire managers* decisions to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Clark, Grimm, Donovan, Mueller
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bachelet, Lenihan
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bachelet, Lenihan, Neilson, Drapek, Kittel
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hua, Peng, Dang, Zhou, Sun
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS