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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mazurek, Laterza, Newman, Daum, Cofer, Levine, Winstead
In this study we examine the molecular organic constituents (C8 to C40 lipid compounds) collected as smoke particles from a Canadian boreal forest prescribed burn. Of special interest are (1) the molecular identity of polar organic aerosols, and (2) the amount of polar organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacLean, Woodley, Weber, Wein
Patterns of undisturbed nutrient cycling in northern ecosystems and the impact of fire on nutrient cycling are reviewed and discussed. The various effects of fire on ecosystem nutrient cycling may be broadly subdivided into (1) nutrient redistribution during fire, and (2)…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon, Huff, Telfer, Schreiner, Smith
The literature describing animals’ behavioral responses to fire, discussed in chapter 3, is limited. Furthermore, short-term responses do not provide insights about the vigor or sustainability of the species in an area. Studies of animal populations and communities are more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Huff, Smith
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lenihan, Sandberg, Neilson
The Joint Fire Science Program is funding the development of a new fuels characterization system for the contiguous United States and Alaska. The new system, based on Fuel Characteristic Classes (FCCs), will provide a broad range of realistic fuel property values at a level of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Law, Turner, Campbell, Lefsky, Guzy, Sun, Tuyl, Cohen
Scaling biogeochemical processes to regions, continents, and the globe is critical for understanding feedbacks between the biosphere and atmosphere in the analysis of global change. This includes the effects of changing atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate, disturbances, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham, Williams
Lightning ignition of wildland fuels plays a major role in the maintenance and evolution of ecosystems. Lightning not only ignites fire but also weakens trees, facilitating insect and disease attack, causes physical damage, and kills trees and groups of trees (Taylor, 1973).…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kurz, Apps
The Canadian boreal forest is comprised largely of even-aged stands that for millennia have undergone cycles of disturbance (i.e., fires or insect-induced stand mortality) and regrowth. Previous studies of regional-scale carbon (C) budgets have assumed that, when averaged over a…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krankina, Sun, Shugart, Kharuk, Kasischke, Bergen, Masek, Cohen, Oetter, Duane
Boreal forest is the major type of land cover in Northern Eurasia. It forms one of the world's largest forest tracts and amounts to some 25% of the world's forest cover. Boreal forest ecosystems developed under the influence of an active natural disturbance regime that created a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knoepp, DeBano, Neary
The chemical properties of the soil that are affected by fire include individual chemical characteristics, chemical reactions, and chemical processes (DeBano and others 1998). The soil chemical characteristics most commonly affected by fire are organic matter, carbon (C),…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Cary, Davies, Flannigan, Gardner, Lavorel, Lenihan, Li, Rupp
Wildland fire is a major disturbance in most ecosystems worldwide (Crutzen and Goldammer 1993). The interaction of fire with climate and vegetation over long time spans, often referred to as the fire regime (Agee 1993; Clark 1993; Swetnam and Baisan 1996; Swetnam 1997), has…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
In summary, the sensitivety study presented in this chapter supports the overall theme of this book (i.e., that fires in the boreal forest play a central role in the exchange of carbon between this biome and the atmosphere). Through a series of processes, the continuing rise in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, O'Neill, French, Bourgeau-Chavez
As discussed in the introduction to this section, fire serves an important ecological role in the boreal forest, especially in those processes controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases with the atmosphere. One of the key requirements for quantifying…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks, O'Neill, French, Bourgeau-Chavez
Past approaches to estimating the amounts of carbon released during fires in boreal forests have depended on two types of data: 1) those collected during prescribed burns; or 2) those collected from limited number of points in naturally-occurring fires. Neither of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, O'Neill, Bourgeau-Chavez, French
The landmark paper of Seiler and Crutzen (1980) clearly laid out the scientific rational as to why the study of biomass burning was essential in terms of completely understanding greenhouse gasses emissions from the land surface to the atmosphere. While this analysis fueled…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kambis, Levine
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kalinin
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huff, Smith
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leuschen, Wade, Seamon
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1991. Spruce bark beetle populations increased for the third consecutive year. 375,000 acres were impacted in 1991. Hardwood defoliator activity increased for the second year and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES