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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yamasaki, Duchesneau, Doyon, Russell, Gooding
The cumulative impacts of human and natural activity on forest landscapes in Alberta are clear. Human activity, such as forestry and oil and gas development, and natural processes such as wildfire leave distinctive marks on the composition, age class structure and spatial…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Skinner, Burk, Barbour, Franco-Vizcaino, Stephens
Aim To identify the influence of interannual and interdecadal climate variation on the occurrence and extent of fires in montane conifer forests of north-western Mexico.Location This study was conducted in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.)dominated mixed-conifer…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheley, Bates
Restoring range sites dominated by western juniper is central to maintaining healthy functioning shrub-steppe ecosystems. On sites without adequate species composition to respond favorably to juniper controlled by fire, revegetation is necessary. We tested the following two…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sassen, Khvorostyanov
Polarization lidar observations from the interior of Alaska have revealed unusual supercooled altocumulus cloud conditions in the presence of boreal forest fire smoke from local and regional fires. At temperatures of about -15ºC, the lidar data show ice nucleation prior to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nitschke, Innes
The achievement of sustainable forest management requires the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into long-term planning. Climatic change will have significant impacts on natural disturbances, species and ecosystems, particularly on landscapes influenced by forest management…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Veblen
Patterns of fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Mexico are analyzed in relation to variability in climate, topography, and human land-use. Significantly more fires with shorter fire return intervals occurred from 1900 to 1950 than from 1950 to 2001. However,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, Trainor, Huntington, Lovecraft, Zavaleta, Natcher, McGuire, Nelson, Ray, Calef, Fresco, Huntington, Rupp, DeWilde, Naylor
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of ''wicked problems'' for which there are no optimal solutions. In this article, we illustrate the wicked nature of such problems by describing the effects of global warming on the wildfire regime and indigenous…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whicker, Pinder, Breshears
Semiarid forests across the western USA and elsewhere are being thinned to reduce risk from fire, restore previous ecological conditions, and/or salvage trees from recently burned areas. Prescriptions and monitoring for thinning generally focus on biotic characteristics of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shepon, Gildor
We investigate a negative climatic feedback which involves an increase in deposition of lightning-produced nitrogen compounds into ecosystems as a response to a global temperature rise. This increases primary production on both land and ocean, which reduces atmospheric carbon…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paquin
This study provides the first assessment of carabid beetle diversity in a natural forest context that encompasses a complete black spruce (Picea mariana) natural succession. Boreal forest conservation has been based on several assumptions about forest age that only consider…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mack, Treseder, Manies, Harden, Schuur, Vogel, Randerson, Chapin
Plant biomass accumulation and productivity are important determinants of ecosystem carbon (C) balance during post-fire succession. In boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) forests near Delta Junction, Alaska, we quantified aboveground plant biomass and net primary productivity (…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hashidoko, Takakai, Toma, Darung, Melling, Tahara, Hatano
Using a soilless culture system mimicking tropical acidic peat soils, which contained 3mg of gellan gum and 0.5mgNO3¯-N per gram of medium, a greenhouse gas, N2O emitting capability of microorganisms in acidic peat soil in the area of Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock, Marlon, Briles, Brunelle, Long, Bartlein
Pollen and high-resolution charcoal records from the north-western USA provide an opportunity to examine the linkages among fire, climate, and fuels on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The data suggest that general charcoal levels were low in the late-glacial period and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swetnam, Anderson
Advances in fire climatology have derived from recent studies of modern and paleoecological records. We convened a series of workshops and a conference session to report and review regional-scale findings, and these meetings led to the 10 papers in this special issue. Two papers…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rich, Breshears, White
Ecosystem responses to key climate drivers are reflected in phenological dynamics such as the timing and degree of ''green-up'' that integrate responses over spatial scales from individual plants to ecosystems. This integration is clearest in ecosystems dominated by a single…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morgan, Heyerdahl, Gibson
We inferred climate drivers of 20th Century years with regionally synchronous forest fires in the U. S. Northern Rockies. We derived annual fire extent from an existing fire atlas that includes 5038 fire polygons recorded from 12 070 086 ha, or 71% of the forested land in Idaho…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miller
Successful implementation of watershed restoration projects involving control of pinon and juniper requires understanding the spatial extent and role presettlement trees (> 140 yr) play in the ecology of Intermountain West landscapes. This study evaluated the extent,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Multi-season climate synchronized historical fires in dry forests (1650-1900), northern Rockies, USA
Our objective was to infer the climate drivers of regionally synchronous fire years in dry forests of the U. S. Northern Rockies in Idaho and western Montana. During our analysis period (1650 - 1900), we reconstructed fires from 9245 fire scars on 576 trees (mostly ponderosa…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'In the early 20th century, the debate was not about whether Indians used fire to manage landscapes, but that they did so much of it.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks
From the text (p.265) ... 'This chapter explains how various fire suppression and postfire management activities can increase or decrease the potential for plant invasions following fire. A conceptual model is used to summarize the basic processes associated with plant invasions…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anzinger, Radosevich
From the Conclusions (p.222) ... 'Given the uncertainties regarding future climatic conditions and fire regimes, fire management techniques should be developed that avoid transporting or facilitating the movement of nonnative plant propagules between different environments.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zou, Breshears, Newman, Wilcox, Gard, Rich
Soil water dynamics reflect the integrated effects of climate conditions, soil hydrological properties and vegetation at a site. Consequently, changes in tree density call have important ecohydrological implications. Notably, stand density in many semi-arid forests has increased…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Fry, Franco-Vizcaino
Knowledge of the ecological effect of wildfire is important to resource managers, especially from forests in which past anthropogenic influences, e.g., fire suppression and timber harvesting, have been limited. Changes to forest structure and regeneration patterns were…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Santiago-Garcia, Colon, Sollins, Van Bloem
The threat of fire is always a consideration when establishing a forest restoration program. Two wildfires occurred in 2006 and 2007 in an established dry forest restoration project in Puerto Rico. The original goal of the project was to determine differential growth responses…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS