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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Betson, Johannisson, Lofvenius, Grip, Granström, Hogberg
We report an analysis of both the long- and short-term drivers of the carbon (C) isotope composition (delta C-13) values of current year needles of Pinus sylvestris L. linked to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations (c(a)) and climate using data from a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoy, Turetsky, Kasischke
Much recent research has investigated the effects of burning on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forests in interior Alaska, however little research has focused on how frequent reburning affects soil organic layer (SOL) vulnerability in these ecosystems. We compared organic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brustet, Benech, Waldteufel
The possibility of applying infrared imagery to the study of a large, hot plume materialized by carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil is investigated. In a specific case (the PROSERPINE experiment), due to the high carbon particle content, the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Substance must be given to policies that state that fire suppression costs should be proportional to values at risk and that fire should assume a more natural role in manging the landscape. A workshop of Canadian fire experts was convened by the Candian Forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton, Richard, Carcaillet, Bergeron
Introduction...'Fire and climate are closely linked (Swetnam 1993). According to simulations of various general circulation models (GCMs), the earth's climate will be 1-3.5º C warmer by the end of the next century due to increasing atmospheric concentrations of radiatively…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodcock, Wells
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here designated as the most burnable part…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell
'The United States obtains approximately 2.7 quads of energy per year from biomass while producing 1.5-3.0 million tons of ash. In the future, energy from biomass should increase to 4 quads, and perhaps it will go as high as 10-20 quads (1). Most of this energy comes from paper…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan
Consistent success in prescribed underburning requires managers to specify acceptable levels of fire injury and to describe the fuels, weather, and fire behavior necessary to accomplish the objectives. Information is assembled to assist managers in this process. Relationships…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gholz, Cropper
Because of their commercial importance, their widespread occurence and their relatively simple structure, pine forests are some of the most intensively studied ecosystems worldwide, affording unique opportunities for synthesis. We present results from a multi-investigator…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gajewski, Payette, Ritchie
1. Pollen analysis of sediment cores from the four zones that comprise the forest-tundra transition in northern Quebec provide a history of the vegetation that can be compared with extensive macrofossil data from the region. Basal radiocarbon dates indicate that the entire reion…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Desponts, Payette
1 The postglacial history of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) at its northernmost distribution limit in the upper boreal forest, along the Grande Riviere de la Baleine (northern Quebec), was reconstructed by using radiocarbon-dated conifer macrofossils found in dune palaeosols…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hogg, Lieffers, Wein
Global warming and the resultant increase in evapotranspiration might lead to lowered water tables in peatlands and an increase in fire frequency. The objective of this study was to investigate some of the potential effects of these changes on peat decomposition. Dry mass losses…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorham
Boreal and subarctic peatlands comprise a carbon pool of 455 Pg that has accumulated during the postglacial period at an average net rate of 0.096 Pg/yr (1 Pg = 10'5 g). Using Clymo's (1984) model, the current rate is estimated at 0.076 Pg/yr. Longterm drainage of these…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schlesinger
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
Fire links the biosphere and the atmosphere. The linkage is, as yet, poorly quantified. Evidence suggests that a few percent of total C fixed by photosynthesis is oxidized by burning. Biomass burning seems to be globally significant in terms of associated: • Releases of trace…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers-Smith, McGuire, Harden, Chapin
We measured CO2 and CH4 exchange from the center of a Sphagnum-dominated permafrost collapse, through an aquatic moat, and into a recently burned black spruce forest on the Tanana River floodplain in interior Alaska. In the anomalously dry growing season of 2004, both the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yi, Kimball, Rawlins, Moghaddam, Euskirchen
Northern Hemisphere permafrost affected land areas contain about twice as much carbon as the global atmosphere. This vast carbon pool is vulnerable to accelerated losses through mobilization and decomposition under projected global warming. Satellite data records spanning the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kalies, Haubensak, Finkral
Forest management can have substantial impacts on ecosystem carbon storage, but those effects can vary significantly with management type and species composition. We used systematic review methodology to identify and synthesize effects of thinning and/or burning, timber…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt
Climate Change Implications for Wildfire in Alaska presented by Randi Jandt. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sanford, Wang, Kenward
Alaska, the great northern frontier of America, is being reshaped by climate change. While rising temperatures are altering its character and landscape, they are also bringing the ravages of wildfires. In the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kahn
Alaska and its neighbor to the east, Canada, have kicked off wildfire season in a major way. Blazes have raged across the northern stretches of North America, sending smoke streaming down into the Lower 48 and leaving the landscape charred. The multitudes of fires is a glimpse…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lukenbach, Devito, Kettridge, Petrone, Waddington
Wildfire is the largest disturbance affecting northern peatlands; however, little is known about how burn severity (organic soil depth of burn) alters post-fire hydrological conditions that control the recovery of keystone peatland mosses (i.e. Sphagnum). For this reason, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ueyama, Ichii, Iwata, Euskirchen, Zona, Rocha, Harazono, Iwama, Nakai, Oechel
Warming in northern high latitudes has changed the energy balance between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study evaluated changes in regional surface energy exchange in Alaska from 2000 to 2011 when substantial declines in spring snow cover due to spring warming…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Girardin, Guo, De Jong, Kinnard, Bernier, Raulier
The 20th century was a pivotal period at high northern latitudes as it marked the onset of rapid climatic warming brought on by major anthropogenic changes in global atmospheric composition. In parallel, Arctic sea ice extent has been decreasing over the period of available…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES