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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nagano, Iwata, Harazono
In this study, we focus on clarifying the contribution of wildfire on N dry deposition in a boreal forest of interior Alaska, by applying CASTNET data and multiple regression analysis against climate data. Here we set two working hypothesis: 1) Long-range transportation, rain…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Identifying indicators of state change and forecasting future vulnerability in Alaskan boreal forest
This research is designed to understand the mechanistic connections among vegetation, the organic soil layer, and permafrost ground stability in Alaskan boreal ecosystems. Understanding these linkages is critical for projecting the impact of climate change on permafrost in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Middleton, Holsten, van Diggelen
Question: Can the biodiversity of fens in Europe and North America be maintained through the use of grazing (especially cattle grazing), fire, and/or cutting? Location: European and North American fens. Methods: This paper is a review of the literature on the effects of grazing…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyodo, Kusaka, Wardle, Nilsson
Background and Aim: Nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) isotopic signatures (δ15N and δ13C) serve as powerful tools for understanding temporal changes in ecosystem processes, but how these signatures change across boreal forest chronosequences is poorly understood. Methods: The δ15N,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bret-Harte, Mack, Goldsmith, Sloan, DeMarco, Shaver, Ray, Biesinger, Chapin
Plant communities in natural ecosystems are changing and species are being lost due to anthropogenic impacts including global warming and increasing nitrogen (N) deposition. We removed dominant species, combinations of species and entire functional types from Alaskan tussock…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shenoy, Kielland, Johnstone
Fire activity in the North American boreal region is projected to increase under a warming climate and trigger changes in vegetation composition. In black spruce forests of interior Alaska, fire severity impacts residual organic layer depth which is strongly linked to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Susott
Differential thermal, thermogravimetric, and derivative thermogravimetric analyses were used to study the effects of two important fire retardant chemicals-ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfate-on the pyrolysis and combustion of cellulose. To aid in the interpretation of…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McIver, Stephens, Agee, Barbour, Boerner, Edminster, Erickson, Farris, Fettig, Fiedler, Haase, Hart, Keeley, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, Moghaddas, Otrosina, Outcalt, Schwilk, Skinner, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Youngblood, Zack
The 12-site National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS) was a multivariate experiment that evaluated ecological consequences of alternative fuel-reduction treatments in seasonally dry forests of the US. Each site was a replicated experiment with a common design that compared an…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lobert, Scharffe, Hao, Kuhlbusch, Seuwan, Warneck, Crutzen
Today biomass burning is accepted to be an important source of many trace gases affecting atmospheric chemistry (Crutzen et al., 1979; Cofer et al., 1988a; Radke et al., 1988; Crutzen et al., 1990). Despite its global significance and in contrast to fossil fuel use, where…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wan, Hui, Luo
A comprehensive and quantitative evaluation of the effects of fire on ecosystem nitrogen (N) is urgently needed for directing future fire research and management. This study used a meta-analysis method to synthesize up to 185 data sets from 87 studies published from 1955 to 1999…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck
Four stands on varying aged river deposits were compared with a climax stand on a higher and older terrace to show changes in soil and vegetation with time on the flood plain at the Chena River near Fairbanks, Alaska. The stands were a 15-year-old willow stand on a newly formed…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Neff, Harden, Gleixner
Boreal ecosystems contain a substantial fraction of the earth's soil carbon stores and are prone to frequent and severe wildfires. In this study, we examine changes in element and organic matter stocks due to a 1999 wildfire in Alaska. One year after the wildfire, burned soils…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dubreuil, Moore
The redistribution of nutrients after fire was examined under laboratory conditions by igniting samples of spruce needles, birch leaves and lichen and leaching the ash through a soil column. Nitrogen was lost from the tissue samples at temperatures above 200 deg C, and 52-88% of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ahlgren, Ahlgren
A review of literature, with chief reference to North America, but including also much literature from other parts of the world, under the main heads: effects of fire on soil (moisture relations, texture, temperature during and after burning, fertility, and chemical composition…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodmansee
The effects of fire on the biogeochemical cycles of ecosystems are considered: (1) the effects on the abiotic controlling factors (temperature, H-ion concentration, ex- changeable bases, available water, and light); (2) the initial, or direct, effects; and (3) the postfire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wells
[from the text] Understanding the effects of prescribed burning on soil properties is important in forestry applications. If burning has no detrimental effect on soil, it can be used for fuel reduction and hardwood control. However, if burning does have an adverse influence on…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Cleve
This study reports the first 2 years' results of a thinning and fertilization study conducted in a 70-year-old white spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. A 2.7-fold increase in tree diameter growth during this period was attributed to improved soil moisture, temperature, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Conrad, Dieterich, Hornbeck, Megahan, Viereck, Wade
The main effect burning on water quality is the potential for increased runoff of rainfall. Runoff may carry suspended soil particles, dissolved inorganic nutrients, and other materials into adjacent streams and lakes, reducing water quality and degrading fish habitat (Wade and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Handleman
Chemicals play an increasingly important role in fire control operations. Techniques have progressed from applications of borate and bentonite slurries in the 1950's, to the current widespread utilization of long-term retardants-diammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Page-Dumroese, Jurgensen, Harvey
This chapter discusses the impact of fire on soil carbon (C) pools, recovery after fire, the effects of a fire suppression policy on soil C, methods to estimate C losses from fire, and the implications of fire management on soil C cycling and sequestration.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Auclair
Unique aspects of fire in lichen tundra and forest-tundra were enumerated. The very high inherent fire susceptibility is related to the presence of lichens and shrubs. Lichens are predisposed to burning by virtue of continuous distribution on the soil surface, high surface-…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Betson, Johannisson, Lofvenius, Grip, Granström, Hogberg
We report an analysis of both the long- and short-term drivers of the carbon (C) isotope composition (delta C-13) values of current year needles of Pinus sylvestris L. linked to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations (c(a)) and climate using data from a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoy, Turetsky, Kasischke
Much recent research has investigated the effects of burning on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forests in interior Alaska, however little research has focused on how frequent reburning affects soil organic layer (SOL) vulnerability in these ecosystems. We compared organic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS