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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yu, Apps, Bhatti
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caldararo
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mitra, Bianchi, McKee, Sutula
Black carbon (BC) may be a major component of riverine carbon exported to the ocean, but its flux from large rivers is unknown. Furthermore, the global distribution of BC between natural and anthropogenic sources remains uncertain. We have determined BC concentrations in…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fantin, Morin
The objective of this study was to compare juvenile (0-12 years) height growth pattern of dominant mature trees from two virgin black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests established during the 19th century (1870) to that of young dominant black spruce seedlings newly…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tie, Zhang, Brasseur, Lei
Lightning is thought to represent an important source of tropospheric reactive nitrogen species NOx (NO + NO2), but estimates of global production of NOx by lightning vary considerably. We evaluate the production of NOx by lightning using a global chemical/transport model,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jacobs
From the text ... 'Although we consider the use of fire essential for maintenance of PJ [pinyon-juniper] savanna structure, there are inherent risks to the herbaceous understory. In particular, we noted that turf-forming individuals of blue grama with excessive amounts of dead…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heringer, Jacques
Burning of native pasture affects soil, botanical composition, species development, and forage quality. It was studied five management systems of native pasture under grazing condition: biennial burning for more than 100 years; without burning for 32 years with or without mowing…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dods
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McEachern, Prepas, Planas
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bravo, Sosa, Sanchez, Jaimes, Saavedra
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pinel-Alloul, Prepas, Planas, Steedman, Charette
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kim, Tanaka, Fukuda, Kushida
Flux measurements at sites of mixed hardwood and black spruce (Picea mariana) stands from an area (C4) of the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed (CPCRW), interior Alaska, USA, in the summer seasons of 1998, 1999, and 2000 are used to estimate the fluxes of CH4 and N2O before…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Bruhwiler
The global boreal forest region experienced some 17.9 million ha of fire in 1998, which could be the highest level of the decade. Through the analysis of fire statistics from North America and satellite data from Russia, semimonthly estimates of area burned for five different…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Williams, Barry
Analyses of the patterns of fire in Alaska were carried out using three different data sets, including a large-fire database dating back to 1950. Analyses of annual area burned statistics illustrate the episodic nature of fire in Alaska, with most of the area burning during a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Joly, Adams, Dale, Collins
From introduction: 'Caribou are found throughout the boreal forests of interior Alaska, a region subject to chronic and expansive wildland fires. Fruticose lichens, if available, constitute the majority of the winter diet of caribou throughout their range and are common in…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
The Haines Index, an operational fire-weather index introduced in 1988 and based on the observed stability and moisture content of the near-surface atmosphere, has been a useful indicator of the potential for high-risk fires in low wind conditions and flat terrain. The Haines…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martell
This paper contains discussions proving that fire suppression has been effective in boreal forests in Ontario, Canada.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hirsch, Trumbore, Goulden
This paper presents data collected by an automated system designed to measure the seasonal cycle of both the quantity and isotopic composition of soil respiration. The results support the hypothesis that deep soil respiration at the BOREAS Northern Old Black Spruce site is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Ishikawa, Yoshikawa, Bolton, Petrone
Hydrologic studies have been conducted in the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (CPCRW) since 1969 primarily directed at improving our understanding of basic hydrological processes in an area underlain by discontinuous permafrost. Recently research has focused upon the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lloyd, Rupp, Fastie, Starfield
Boreal tree species are expected to invade tundra ecosystems as climate warms. Because forested ecosystems differ from tundra ecosystems in a number of climatically relevant characteristics, this advance of the altitudinal and latitudinal tree limit may ultimately feedback on…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harper, Bergeron, Gauthier, Drapeau
Fire reconstruction and forest inventory maps provided an opportunity to study changes in stand-level characteristics following fire using a data set comprised of all forest stands of fire origin in an area of over 10 000 km2. We assigned the date of the most recent fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Mack, Veldhuis, Gower
We used a dynamic, long-term mass balance approach to track cumulative carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) losses to fire in boreal Manitoba over the 6500 years since deglaciation. Estimated C losses to decomposition and fire, combined with measurements of N pools in mature and burned…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Schuster
This study estimates the overall percentage difference in total personnel compensation between the current pay system for forest fire suppression and a system of 24-hour pay, where employees are paid their regular rate of pay for 24 hours per day while on fire duty. Using a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fraser, Li
The majority of burning in the boreal forest zone consists of stand replacement fires larger than 10 km2 occurring in remote, sparsely populated regions. Satellite remote sensing using coarse resolution (~1 km) sensors is thus well suited in documenting the spatial and temporal…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Lloyd, Doak
We reconstructed the history of wildfire in the study area of the 1999 FROSTFIRE experimental fire in interior Alaska using information from fire-scarred trees, fire-killed trees, tree recruitment dates, tree radial growth increases, and aerial photographs. This combination of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES