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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chen, Klinka, Kabzems
To develop anamorphic height growth and site index models for trembling aspen stands in British Columbia, a total of 33 naturally established, fire-originated, unmanaged, and even-aged stands were located in the Boreal White and Black Spruce zone. The breast-height ages of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charnley
I evaluated the Northwest Forest Plan as a model for ecosystem management to achieve social and economic goals in communities located around federal forests in the US. Pacific Northwest. My assessment is based on the results of socioeconomic monitoring conducted to evaluate…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Chapin, Callaghan, Bergeron, Fukuda, Johnstone, Juday, Zimov
Changes in boreal climate of the magnitude projected for the 21st century have always caused vegetation changes large enough to be societally important. However, the rates and patterns of vegetation change are difficult to predict. We review evidence suggesting that these…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chapin, Rupp, Starfield, DeWilde, Zavaleta, Fresco, Henkelman, McGuire
The development of policies that promote ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability requires collaboration between natural and social scientists. We present a modeling approach to facilitate this communication and illustrate its application to studies of wildfire in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, McGuire, Randerson, Pielke, Baldocchi, Hobbie, Roulet, Eugster, Kasischke, Rastetter, Zimov, Running
Synthesis of results from several Arctic and boreal research programmes provides evidence for the strong role of high-latitude ecosystems in the climate system. Average surface air temperature has increased 0.3 degrees C per decade during the twentieth century in the western…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Starfield
We use a frame-based simulation model to estimate future rate of advance of the arctic treeline in response to scenarios of transient changes in temperature, precipitation, and fire regime. The model is simple enough to capture both the short-term direct response of vegetation…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Shaver, Giblin, Nadelhoffer, Laundre
We manipulated light, temperature, and nutrients in moist tussock tundra near Toolik Lake, Alaska to determine how global changes in these parameters might affect community and ecosystem processes. Some of these manipulations altered nutrient availability, growth-form…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chambers
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chambers, Beringer, Randerson, Chapin
The net radiation available to drive surface-atmosphere exchange is strongly influenced by albedo and surface temperature. Tower-based microclimatic and eddy covariance measurements in typical Alaskan black spruce and tundra ecosystems before and immediately after fire indicated…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chambers, Chapin
Although fire is crucial to the functioning and diversity of boreal forests, the second largest biome on Earth, there are few detailed studies of the effects of disturbance on surface-atmosphere interactions in these regions. We conducted tower-based micrometeorological…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cater, Chapin
We used a combination of surveys of natural vegetation and seed-sowing and seedling transplant experiments to determine the relative importance of competition and microenvironmental modification as mechanisms by which understory vegetation influences the establishment of tree…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modelled area burned to environmental factors across a range of independently-developed landscape-fire-succession models. The sensitivity of area burned to variation in four factors, namely terrain (flat, undulating and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Carlson, Finney
Pollen, stomates and macrofossils were analysed from a 3.63 m sediment core at Jan Lake, eastcentral Alaska, in order to improve spatial resolution of patterns of vegetation history in this region. The chronology was based on 19 AMS 14C dates on plant macrofossils and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, Dunham
The feathermoss-dominated floor of coniferous boreal forests can experience midsummer drought. From ecophysiological studies, based on single shoots, it is unclear how the live moss carpet can survive such stress. External capillary wicking from the lowest, moist organic layers…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, MacLellan
The woody vegetation that developed after clear felling and logging 131 stands dominated by Picea mariana was compared with that of stands that developed after fire in boreal forests of Ontario. Each dataset represents a stand chronosequence on a range of substrates.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, Wannamaker
Using age-structure determinations on both living and dead stems in censused plots, coupled with stem analysis techniques, an historical picture of mortality and above-ground tree stem growth was recreated for ten stands dominated by black spruce in northeastern Ontario, Canada…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of forest biodiversity because fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carcaillet, Richard, Asnong, Capece, Bergeron
Fire-made soil erosion should trigger (i) an increase of inorganic sedimentation within lake-basins and (ii) a change of magnetic susceptibility if the burn depth is strong enough to reach the mineral soil and to modify the magnetism of mineral particles. Magnetic susceptibility…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Modelling and experiments have suggested that spatial fuel treatment patterns can influence the movement of large fires. On simple theoretical landscapes consisting of two fuel types (treated and untreated), optimal patterns can be analytically derived that disrupt fire growth…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dyrness, Van Cleve, Levison
Soil chemical properties were studied after a wildfire in stands of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.). Samples of the forest floor and…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Norum
Seven units (about 2 ha each) of black spruce-feather moss forest were experimentally burned over a range of fuel moisture conditions during the summer of 1978. Surface woody fuels were sparse and the principal carrier fuel was the forest floor (largely mosses and their…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Grigal
Five distinct forest communities were recognized along a 3-km transect. These are, listed in order of decreasing elevation: (i) open black spruce/feathermoss-Cladonia, (ii) closed black spruce/feathermoss, (iii) open black spruce/Sphagnum, (iv) black spruce woodland/Eriophorum,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Degrandpré, Gagnon, Bergeron
We investigated changes in the composition and abundance of understory species after fire in the southern boreal forest around Lake Duparquet, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled in each of eight sites varying in post-fire age from 26 to 230 yr, with 20 1-m2 quadrats in each…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeGouw, Warneke, Stohl, Wollny, Brock, Cooper, Holloway, Trainer, Fehsenfeld, Atlas, Donnelly, Stroud, Lueb
The NOAA WP-3 aircraft intercepted aged forest fire plumes from Alaska and western Canada during several flights of the NEAQS-ITCT 2k4 mission in 2004. Measurements of acetonitrile (CH3CN) indicated that the air masses had been influenced by biomass burning. The locations of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES