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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Kasischke, French, Bourgeau-Chavez, Christensen
An improved method to estimate the amounts of carbon released during fires in the boreal forest zone of Alaska in 1990 and 1991 is described. This method divides the state into 64 distinct physiographic regions and estimates areal extent of five different land covers: two forest…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French
Investigations have shown that fires in boreal forests result in characteristic responses which are recorded on ERS-1 SAR imagery. Using one of the many fire signatures observed on ERS-1 SAR imagery, the analysis of the data revealed there is >10 dB in variation in image…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Harrell, Christensen
Initial observations on effects of wildfires in black spruce [Picea mariana] forests in Alaska on radar backscatter are presented. Airborne and spaceborne SAR imagery are utilized to illustrate two distinct fire signatures. A theory is presented to explain these differences.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Christian, Kleiss, Yokelson, Holzinger, Crutzen, Hao, Shirai, Blake
Oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOC) can dominate atmospheric organic chemistry, but they are difficult to measure reliably at low levels in complex mixtures. Several techniques that have been used to speciate nonmethane organic compounds (NMOC) including OVOC were…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kang, Kimball, Running
We used a terrestrial ecosystem process model, BIOME-BGC, to investigate historical climate change and fire disturbance effects on regional carbon and water budgets within a 357,500 km2 portion of the Canadian boreal forest. Historical patterns of increasing atmospheric CO2,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

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

Juday
Insects, forest fires and adverse environmental conditions are impacting the boreal forests of northern Alaska. Dr Glenn Patrick Juday, Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, explains the implications of climate change for northern forests.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Juday
An account of the progress and control of a fire started on 29 May 1983 following an unusually dry and mild early spring, and lasting 18 days covering nearly 10,000 acres of forest and involving losses of over $5 million. Measures included the use of bulldozed control lines…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jonsson, Dahlberg, Nilsson, Zackrisson, Karen
The effects of wildfires on ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungal communities in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) stands at 4 sites in the boreal zone of northern Sweden were evaluated. Below- and above-ground communities were analysed in terms of species richness and evenness by examining…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Jonsson
The main aim of this thesis has been to elucidate the species composition and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with mature trees and naturally regenerated seedlings in natural boreal forests in Sweden. Further, the effects of disturbances, such as wildfire…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Joly, Dale, Collins, Adams
The role of wildland fire in the winter habitat of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) has long been debated. Fire has been viewed as detrimental to caribou because it destroys the slow-growing climax forage lichens that caribou utilize in winter. Other researchers argued that caribou…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

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

In Alaska, the unusually warm, dry summer of 2004 brought wildfires that burned a record setting 6.7 million acres, mostly in the flammable black spruce forests of the interior. Less flammable deciduous tree species were known to sometimes replace black spruce in areas where…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnstone, Chapin
Fire, which is the dominant disturbance in the boreal forest, creates substantial heterogeneity in soil burn severity at patch and landscape scales. We present results from five field experiments in Yukon Territory, Canada, and Alaska, USA that document the effects of soil burn…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Johnstone, Kasischke
This study tested whether variations in soil burn severity (soil organic layer consumption) influenced patterns of early postfire plant regeneration in a black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest in interior Alaska. Variations in burn severity were related to measurements…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnstone
This experiment tests the effects of early canopy development by asexually regenerating aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) on conifer recruitment after fire in central Alaska. The establishment and growth of three conifer species were observed in response to aboveground removal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Johnstone, Chapin, Foote, Kemmett, Price, Viereck
This paper presents data on early postfire tree regeneration. The data were obtained from repeated observations of recently burned forest stands along the Yukon-British Columbia border and in interior Alaska. Postfire measurements of tree density were made periodically for 20-30…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Johnstone, Chapin
Because species affect ecosystem functioning, understanding migration processes is a key component of predicting future ecosystem responses to climate change. This study provides evidence of range expansion under current climatic conditions of an indigenous species with strong…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnston, Elliott
Plant species composition and community structure were compared among 4 sites in an upland (boreal) black spruce (Picea mariana) community in NW Ontario. One site had remained undisturbed since the 1930s and 3 had been disturbed by either logging, fire, or both logging and fire…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnson, Peterson
ANNOTATION: In order to accomplish complex and multiple management objectives related to forest structure, fuels, and fire disturbance, these two disciplines must be effectively integrated in science and practice. The authors have linked scientific and management tools to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Johnson
Results are reported from observations on the characteristics and population dynamics of the principal climax species, Picea glauca, made in summer 1985 near Chitina. Data are presented on vegetation types (transect profiles), density of woodland (point-centred quarter technique…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnson, Miyanishi, Bridge
The explanation often given for the large wildfires that have burned each year in North America in the last two decades is that fire suppression after the 1950s produced a buildup of fuel and changed the landscape-age mosaic (e.g., Gayton 1998; Smalley et al. 2000), creating…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. Fire scars for 160 years (1831-1948) for Pinus banksiana, and written fire records from 1927 to 1995, from the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnson, Wowchuk
In this paper we present evidence for a large-scale (synoptic-scale) meteorological mechanism controlling the fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. This large-scale control may explain the similarity in average fire frequencies and timing of change in average…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES