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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Harada, Narita, Saito, Sawada, Fukuda
In the Arctic, wildfire affects the ground surface condition of permafrost due to its heat and disappearance of vegetation, mainly moss layer, and these may cause the degradation of permafrost. At warm tundra areas, permafrost is affected by wildfire sensitively. However, there…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earl, Alexander, Mack
Wildfires are a major natural disturbance in boreal forests of interior Alaska and play an important role in determining forest plant composition and productivity by influencing parameters such as nutrient availability, light transmission, and forest floor heterogeneity.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby
Previous published explorations of the relation between contemporary wildfire and lightning in Alaska have focused largely on the central boreal forest. Following the long duration (3 month), large extent (100,000 ha) 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire on the North Slope of Alaska, some…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Bowden, Kling, Schuett, Kostrzewski, Kolden, Findlay
Increased fire frequency and severity are potentially important consequences of climate change in high latitude ecosystems. The 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire, which burned from July until October, is the largest recorded tundra fire from Alaska's north slope (approximately 1,000 km^…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuur, Vogel
Long-term monitoring of changes in ecosystem carbon cycling in response to permafrost thawing and thermokarst development is an important component of understanding the rate at which northern ecosystems are changing. The Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden
Wildfires are an integral disturbance component of dynamic ecological communities, but for humans to thrive in wildfire-prone regions, they must mitigate wildfire risks to human infrastructure and ecosystem services. Boreal forest and tundra ecotypes have co-evolved with…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGuire, Ruess, Lloyd, Yarie, Clein, Juday
This paper integrates dendrochronological, demographic, and experimental perspectives to improve understanding of the response of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) tree growth to climatic variability in interior Alaska. The dendrochronological analyses indicate that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Hockaday, Turetsky, Masiello, Valentine, Finney, Baldock
There is still much uncertainty as to how wildfire affects the accumulation of burn residues (such as black carbon (BC)) in the soil, and the corresponding changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) composition in boreal forests. We investigated SOC and BC composition in black spruce…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wendler, Shulski, Moore
A reliable data set of Arctic sea ice concentration based on satellite observations exists since 1972. Over this time period of 36 years western arctic temperatures have increased; the temperature rise varies significantly from one season to another and over multi-year time…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhao-ping, Hua, Xing-liang, Lin, Ming-hua, Cai-ping
Permafrost, covering approximately 25% of the land area in the Northern Hemisphere, is one of the key components of terrestrial ecosystem in cold regions. As a product of cold climate, permafrost is extremely sensitive to climate change. Climate warming over past decades has…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euskirchen, McGuire, Chapin, Yi, Thompson
Assessing potential future changes in arctic and boreal plant species productivity, ecosystem composition, and canopy complexity is essential for understanding environmental responses under expected altered climate forcing. We examined potential changes in the dominant plant…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mell
The wildland-urban interface fire dynamics simulator (WFDS) extends the fire dynamics simulator (FDS), which has been developed for structural fires, to account for the presence of terrain and/or vegetation and the spread of fires through vegetation. This extension of FDS is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euskirchen, McGuire, Chapin, Rupp
In the boreal forests of Alaska, recent changes in climate have influenced the exchange of trace gases, water, and energy between these forests and the atmosphere. These changes in the structure and function of boreal forests can then feedback to impact regional and global…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kofinas, Chapin, BurnSilver, Schmidt, Kielland, Martin, Springsteen, Rupp
Subsistence harvesting and wild food production by Athabascan peoples is part of an integrated social-ecological system of interior Alaska. We describe effects of recent trends and future climate change projections on the boreal ecosystem of interior Alaska and relate changes in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Barnes, Jandt, Dennis
The frequency and size of lightning-caused tundra fires could increase with climate warming and may result in major ecosystem changes in vegetation, soils, and wildlife habitat over large areas of the arctic. Two of the longest monitored sites (28-32 years) in Arctic Alaska for…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Rupp, Barnes
Wildfire is the dominant driver of ecosystem change in Alaska. The majority of annual area burned occurs within boreal forests in the interior region (north of the Alaska Range and south of the Brooks Range). See Figure 1 on page 5. Alaskan boreal forests are dominated by late…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jorgenson, Romanovsky, Harden, Shur, O'Donnell, Schuur, Kanevskiy, Marchenko
The resilience and vulnerability of permafrost to climate change depends on complex interactions among topography, water, soil, vegetation, and snow, which allow permafrost to persist at mean annual air temperatures (MAATs) as high as +2 8C and degrade at MAATs as low as -20 8C…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Chapin, Klein
Lichens are an important winter forage for large, migratory herds of caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) that can influence population dynamics through effects on body condition and in turn calf recruitment and survival. We investigated the vegetative and physiographic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Lloyd, Nossov, Ruess, Charlton, Kielland
Along the Tanana River floodplain, several turning points have been suggested to characterize the changes in ecosystem structure and function that accompany plant community changes through primary succession. In the past, much of this research focused on a presumed…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, McGuire, Ruess, Hollingsworth, Mack, Johnstone, Kasischke, Euskirchen, Jones, Jorgenson, Kielland, Kofinas, Turetsky, Yarie, Lloyd, Taylor
This paper assesses the resilience of Alaska's boreal forest system to rapid climatic change. Recent warming is associated with reduced growth of dominant tree species, plant disease and insect outbreaks, warming and thawing of permafrost, drying of lakes, increased wildfire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef
The vast boreal forest biome is experiencing rapid climate warming with multiple impacts on the ecosystem which include direct vegetation changes; alterations to the ground thermal and hydrological regimes; and increases in disturbance by fire, insects, and disease. This cold…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Goldammer, Kondrashov
Forest fire is the dominant disturbance regime in boreal forests, and is the primary process which organizes the physical and biological attributes of the boreal biome over most of its range, shaping landscape diversity and influencing energy flows and biogeochemical cycles,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hosseini, Cocker, Weise, Miller, Shrivastava, Miller, Mahalingam, Princevac, Jung
Particle size distribution from biomass combustion is an important parameter as it affects air quality, climate modelling and health effects. To date, particle size distributions reported from prior studies vary not only due to difference in fuels but also difference in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lozano, Tachajapong, Weise, Mahalingam, Princevac
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements were performed in laboratory-scale experimental fires spreading across horizontal fuel beds composed of aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) excelsior. The continuous flame, intermittent flame, and thermal plume regions of a fire were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pechony, Shindell
Recent bursts in the incidence of large wildfires worldwide have raised concerns about the influence climate change and humans might have on future fire activity. Comparatively little is known, however, about the relative importance of these factors in shaping global fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS