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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Robinson, Moore
Carbon and peat accumulation rates over the past 1200 yr were measured in relation to permafrost aggradation, maturity, ground fires, and degradation in a peatland with discontinuous permafrost near Fort Simpson, N.W.T., Canada. The White River volcanic ash layer, deposited 1200…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Bond-Lamberty, Gower
The objective of this study was to quantify carbon (C) distribution for boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands comprising a fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The experimental design included seven well-drained (dry) and seven poorly-drained (wet)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shvidenko, Apps
Boreal forests represent a biome of the planet whose unique characteristics are changing rapidly under the influence of both human and natural pressures. These forests hold the key to current and future supply of coniferous industrial wood and at the same time play a significant…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payne, Stocks, Robinson, Wasey, Strapp
Combustion aerosol particles from boreal forest fires were quantified to facilitate investigation of the potential effects of increased fire activity caused by global warming, by providing data inputs for global and regional climate modelling of the direct and indirect effects.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Page, Siegert, Rieley, Boehm, Jaya, Limin
Tropical peatlands are one of the largest near-surface reserves of terrestrial organic carbon, and hence their stability has important implications for climate change. In their natural state, lowland tropical peatlands support a luxuriant growth of peat swamp forest overlying…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein
We examined the long-term dynamics of upland boreal forest floors after disturbance by fire. We selected two important and contrasting upland tree species, Pinus banksiana (jack pine) and Populus tremuloides (trembling aspen), in three distinct climatic zones across the boreal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mouillot, Narasimha, Balkanski, Lamarque, Field
We used a new, 100-year, 1 × 1° global fire map and a carbon cycle model (CASA) to provide a yearly gridded estimate of the temporal trend in carbon emissions due to wildfires through the 20th century. 2700–3325 Tg C y−1 burn at the end of the 20th century, compared to 1500–2700…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thorton
Biome-BGC is a computer program that estimates fluxes and storage of energy, water, carbon, and nitrogen for the vegetation and soil components of terrestrial ecosystems. We call it a process model because its algorithms represent physical and biological processes that control…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Mid- to late-Holocene carbon balance in arctic Alaska and its implications for future global warming
In the event of global warming, there is considerable uncertainty whether northern ecosystems will act as an atmospheric CO2 sink or source. This study examines Holocene rates of soil carbon accumulation along a latitudinal transect in northern Alaska as an analogue for future…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Land-use change and carbon sinks: econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function
When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies ù such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation ù should be part of the domestic portfolio of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krankina, Harmon, Cohen, Oetter, Zyrina, Duane
Forest inventories and remote sensing are the two principal data sources used to estimate carbon (C) stocks and fluxes for large forest regions. National governments have historically relied on forest inventories for assessments but developments in remote sensing technology…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Hyer, Novelli, Bruhwiler, French, Sukhinin, Hewson, Stocks
There were large interannual variations in burned area in the boreal region (ranging between 3.0 and 23.6x106 ha yr-1) for the period of 1992 and 1995-2003 which resulted in corresponding variations in total carbon and carbon monoxide emissions. We estimated a range of carbon…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Christensen, Stocks
Fire strongly influences carbon cycling and storage in boreal forests. In the near-term, if global warming occurs, the frequency and intensity of fires in boreal forests are likely to increase significantly. A sensitivity analysis on the relationship between fire and carbon…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kajii, Kato, Streets, Tsai, Shvidenko, Nilsson, McCallum, Minko, Abushenko, Altyntsev, Khodzer
The NOAA 12 advanced very high resolution radiometer detected extensive forest fires in boreal Siberia and northern Mongolia during April through October 1998, a year of extremely dry weather, in particular, in the Russian Far East. Analysis of the satellite data has been…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Neff, Sandberg, Turetsky, Ottmar, Gleixner, Fries, Manies
Wildfires represent one of the most common disturbances in boreal regions, and have the potential to reduce C, N, and Hg stocks in soils while contributing to atmospheric emissions. Organic soil layers of the forest floor were sampled before and after the FROSTFIRE experimental…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Trumbore, Stocks, Hirsch, Gower, O'Neill, Kasischke
To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long-term averages for C exchange in boreal forests near Thompson, Manitoba. Soil drainage as defined by water table, moss cover, and permafrost dynamics, is the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, O'Neill, Trumbore, Veldhuis, Stocks
We used input and decomposition data from 14C studies of soils to determine rates of vertical accumulation of moss combined with carbon storage inventories on a sequence of burns to model how carbon accumulates in soils and moss after a stand-killing fire. We used soil drainage-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gromtsev
Fire layers in peat columns from bogs, and carbon layers in soil trenches on dry ground were used to analyse the pattern of occurrence of fires in natural spruce [Picea abies] and pine [Pinus sylvestris] boreal forests of Karelia during the last 3000-6000 years. Results of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Williams
A study was carried out to assess the variability in trace gas emission from several factors and to estimate the immediate impact of fire on carbon exchange. Using geospatial data, a model of emission was developed for three carbon-based gases, CO2, CO, and CH4, released during…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Czimczik, Schmidt, Schulze
Fires in boreal forests frequently convert organic matter in the organic layer to black carbon, but we know little of how changing fire frequency alters the amount, composition and distribution of black carbon and organic matter within soils, or affects podzolization. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Finer, Messier, Degrandpré
Fine-root (diameter 10 mm) standing biomass, length, distribution, production, and decomposition were studied in mixed conifer/broadleaved forest stands 48, 122, and 232 yr after fire on clay soils in the southern boreal forest of Quebec. A combination of ingrowth bags, soil…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cote, Brown, Paré, Fyles, Bauhus
In the boreal mixed forest, stand composition generally changes from deciduous to mixed to coniferous stands during post-disturbance succession. Our objective was to determine the influence of forest composition on the quality of soil nitrogen and carbon as determined by C and N…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burke, Zepp, Tarr, Miller, Stocks
During the spring and summer of 1994 we monitored soil-atmosphere exchanges of methane and carbon dioxide at upland sites in the Canadian boreal forest near the northern study area (NSA) of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). The effects of fire on methane and carbon…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Briffa, Schweingruber, Jones, Osborn, Shiyatov, Vaganov
Tree-ring chronologies that represent annual changes in the density of wood formed during the late summer can provide a proxy for local summertime air temperature. Here we undertake an examination of large-regional-scale wood-density/air-temperature relationships using…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergner, Johnstone, Treseder
Global warming is projected to be greatest in northern regions, where forest fires are also increasing in frequency. Thus, interactions between fire and temperature on soil respiration at high latitudes should be considered in determining feedbacks to climate. We tested the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS