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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Christodoulakis, Arianoutsou-Faraggitaki, Psaras
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Artsybashev
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Veldman, Buisson, Durigan, Fernandes, Le Stradic, Mahy, Negreiros, Overbeck, Veldman, Zaloumis, Putz, Bond
We expand the concept of “old growth” to encompass the distinct ecologies and conservation values of the world's ancient grass-dominated biomes. Biologically rich grasslands, savannas, and open-canopy woodlands suffer from an image problem among scientists, policy makers, land…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Loranty, Lieberman-Cribbin, Berner, Natali, Goetz, Alexander, Kholodov
In arctic tundra and boreal forest ecosystems vegetation structural and functional influences on the surface energy balance can strongly influence permafrost soil temperatures. As such, vegetation changes will likely play an important role in permafrost soil carbon dynamics and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Myers-Smith, McGuire, Harden, Chapin
We measured CO2 and CH4 exchange from the center of a Sphagnum-dominated permafrost collapse, through an aquatic moat, and into a recently burned black spruce forest on the Tanana River floodplain in interior Alaska. In the anomalously dry growing season of 2004, both the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Yi, Kimball, Rawlins, Moghaddam, Euskirchen
Northern Hemisphere permafrost affected land areas contain about twice as much carbon as the global atmosphere. This vast carbon pool is vulnerable to accelerated losses through mobilization and decomposition under projected global warming. Satellite data records spanning the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kalies, Haubensak, Finkral
Forest management can have substantial impacts on ecosystem carbon storage, but those effects can vary significantly with management type and species composition. We used systematic review methodology to identify and synthesize effects of thinning and/or burning, timber…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Jandt
Climate Change Implications for Wildfire in Alaska presented by Randi Jandt. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Sanford, Wang, Kenward
Alaska, the great northern frontier of America, is being reshaped by climate change. While rising temperatures are altering its character and landscape, they are also bringing the ravages of wildfires. In the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kahn
Alaska and its neighbor to the east, Canada, have kicked off wildfire season in a major way. Blazes have raged across the northern stretches of North America, sending smoke streaming down into the Lower 48 and leaving the landscape charred.  The multitudes of fires is a glimpse…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lewandrowski, Kim, Aillery
Economic studies have demonstrated that agricultural landowners could mitigate significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through afforestation. The associated carbon, however, must remain stored in soils or biomass for several decades to achieve substantial…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Veraverbeke, Rogers, Randerson
Boreal fires burn into carbon-rich organic soils, thereby releasing large quantities of trace gases and aerosols that influence atmospheric composition and climate. To better understand the factors regulating boreal fire emissions, we developed a statistical model of carbon…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Pan, Chen, Birdsey, McCullough, He, Deng
Most forests of the world are recovering from a past disturbance. It is well known that forest disturbances profoundly affect carbon stocks and fluxes in forest ecosystems, yet it has been a great challenge to assess disturbance impacts in estimates of forest carbon budgets. Net…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Lukenbach, Devito, Kettridge, Petrone, Waddington
Wildfire is the largest disturbance affecting northern peatlands; however, little is known about how burn severity (organic soil depth of burn) alters post-fire hydrological conditions that control the recovery of keystone peatland mosses (i.e. Sphagnum). For this reason, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Ueyama, Ichii, Iwata, Euskirchen, Zona, Rocha, Harazono, Iwama, Nakai, Oechel
Warming in northern high latitudes has changed the energy balance between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study evaluated changes in regional surface energy exchange in Alaska from 2000 to 2011 when substantial declines in spring snow cover due to spring warming…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Girardin, Guo, De Jong, Kinnard, Bernier, Raulier
The 20th century was a pivotal period at high northern latitudes as it marked the onset of rapid climatic warming brought on by major anthropogenic changes in global atmospheric composition. In parallel, Arctic sea ice extent has been decreasing over the period of available…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Polley, Briske, Morgan, Wolter, Bailey, Brown
The amplified “greenhouse effect” associated with increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases has increased atmospheric temperature by 1°C since industrialization (around 1750), and it is anticipated to cause an additional 2°C increase by mid-century. Increased biospheric…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Seedre, Taylor, Brassard, Chen, Jogiste
Corresponding with the increasing global resource demand, harvesting now affects millions of hectares of boreal forest each year, and yet our understanding of harvesting impacts on boreal carbon (C) dynamics relative to wildfire remains unclear. We provide a direct comparison of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oris, Asselin, Ali, Finsinger, Bergeron
Forest fires are an important disturbance in the boreal forest. They are influenced by climate, weather, topography, vegetation, surface deposits and human activities. In return, forest fires affect the climate through emission of gases and aerosols, and changes in surface…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Natali, Schuur, Webb, Hicks Pries, Crummer
A large pool of organic carbon (C) has been accumulating in the Arctic for thousands of years because cold and waterlogged conditions have protected soil organic material from microbial decomposition. As the climate warms, this vast and frozen C pool is at risk of being thawed,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar, Eberhardt, Andreu, Eagle, Swedin
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a software module that records wildland fuel characteristics and calculates potential fire behavior and hazard potentials based on input environmental variables. The FCCS 3.0 is housed within the Integrated Fuels Treatment…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Santín, Doerr, Preston, Bryant
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) produced during vegetation fires represents one of the most degradation resistant organic carbon pools and has important implications for the global carbon cycle. Its long-term fate in the environment and the processes leading to its degradation are the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Holden, Gutierrez, Treseder
Wildfires are a pervasive disturbance in boreal forests, and the frequency and intensity of boreal wildfires is expected to increase with climate warming. Boreal forests store a large fraction of global soil organic carbon (C), but relatively few studies have documented how…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Knapp, Briggs, Collins, Archer, Bret-Harte, Ewers, Peters, Young, Shaver, Pendall, Cleary
Shrub encroachment into grass-dominated biomes is occurring globally due to a variety of anthropogenic activities, but the consequences for carbon (C) inputs, storage and cycling remain unclear. We studied eight North American graminoid-dominated ecosystems invaded by shrubs,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES