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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Hyer, Allen, Kasischke
Boreal forest fires are highly variable in space and time and also have variable vertical injection properties. We compared a University of Maryland Chemistry and Transport Model (UMD-CTM) simulation of boreal forest fire CO in the summer of 2000 to surface observations from the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hyer, Kasischke, Allen
The quality of temporal information from daily burned area inputs was evaluated using a transport and chemistry experiment. Carbon monoxide emissions from boreal forest fires were estimated using burned area inputs with daily resolution. Averaging of emissions data to create 30-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Hudak, Fairbanks, Brockett
Climate, topography, vegetation and land use interact to influence fire regimes.Variable fire regimes may promote landscape heterogeneity, diversification in vegetation pattern and biotic diversity. The objective was to compare effects of alternative land use practices on…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hudak, Brockett
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McCullough, Werner, Neumann
Fire and insects are natural disturbance agents in many forest ecosystems, often interacting to affect succession, nutrient cycling, and forest species composition. We review literature pertaining to effects of fire-insect interactions on ecological succession, use of prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Martell
This paper contains discussions proving that fire suppression has been effective in boreal forests in Ontario, Canada.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Martell
A Markov chain is used to model day to day changes in the Fire Weather Index (FWI) component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The results of statistical analyses of 26 years (1963-1988) of fire weather data recorded at 15 fire weather stations located across the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Marsh, Arnone, Bormann, Gordon
Although plants of Equisetum spp. are generally thought to be of little value to ecosystems, as study of a cold-temperature Alaskan shrub wetland showed that they acquired and cycled phosphorus and other nutrients more efficiently than other plant community members. While…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Loso
The dynamics of white spruce (Picea glauca) in a sparsely populated Alaskan valley (Kennicott Valley, USA) were examined for management of subsistence firewood and house-log harvest. Site index, disturbance history, current productivity, and population age structure of white…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Leung, Logan, Park, Hyer, Kasischke, Streets, Yurganov
Carbon monoxide reached record high levels in the northern extratropics in the late summer and fall of 1998 as a result of anomalously large boreal fires in eastern Russia and North America. We investigated the effects of these fires on CO and tropospheric oxidants using a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kevan, Tikhmenev, Usui
Pollination systems in the boreal zone range from generalist to specialist, both entomologically and botanically. The relative importance of wind pollination, insect pollination, sexual separation between and within plants, and between flowers, hermaphroditism of flowers, and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kershaw, Rouse
The water relations of Cladonia alpestris in spruce-lichen woodland in northern Ontario is described. The rate of drying of the lichen canopy was measured by resistance grids inserted into the canopy and monitored during the drying cycle. The effects of dew were measured in a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kane, Kasischke, Valentine, Turetsky, McGuire
We measured characteristics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and black carbon (BC) along opposed north- and south-facing toposequences in recent (2004) and old (~1860-1950) burn sites throughout interior Alaska. Surface fuel consumption did not vary between different topographic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kane, Valentine, Michaelson, Fox, Ping
Small changes in C cycling in boreal forests can change the sign of their C balance, so it is important to gain an understanding of the factors controlling small exports like water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) fluxes from the soils in these systems. To examine this, we…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Kane, Valentine, Schuur, Dutta
The amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) in stable, slow-turnover pools is likely to change in response to climate warming because processes mediating soil C balance (net primary production and decomposition) vary with environmental conditions. This is important to consider in…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kane
The infiltration rate of snowmelt water into seasonally frozen soils is controlled in part by the amount of ice in the soil pores. The objective of this study was to measure the redistribution of moisture that occurs over the winter season for Fairbanks silt loam and to…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hustich
Description not entered.
Year: 1951
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Huot, Ibarzabal
Black-backed woodpeckers (Picoides arcticus) may depend on recently burned forest patches to maintain viable population levels. We wanted to determine how these habitats are colonized by this species and by which age classes. Data collected at the Observatoire d'oiseaux de…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Huntington, Trainor, Natcher, Huntington, DeWilde, Chapin
Community workshops are widely used tools for collaborative research on social-ecological resilience in indigenous communities. Although results have been reported in many publications, few have reflected explicitly on the workshop itself, and specifically on understanding what…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hunter
Because organisms have adapted to the natural disturbance regimes o f forest ecosystems such as fires and windfalls, conservationists often suggest that timber harvesting systems be designed to imitate natural disturbance regimes. Using the crown fires that shape true boreal…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hunt, Haider
This article investigates the aesthetic impacts of anthropogenic and fire disturbances on forested shorelines for most coniferous forest types of the boreal forest. The novel use of the psychophysical landscape-perception approach to near-vista-view shoreline settings makes this…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Houghton, Hackler
Changes in the areas of croplands and pastures, and rates of wood harvest in 7 regions of the USA, including Alaska, were derived from historical statistics for the period 1700-1990. These rates of land-use change were used in a cohort model, together with equations defining the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Hornberg, Ostlund, Zackrisson, Bergman
In northern Fennoscandia a rare forest type, characterized by Cladina [Cladonia] spp. (lichens) and Picea abies, occurs on dry productive sites outside the range of permafrost but close to the Scandes mountains. The history of vegetation development and disturbance was…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Holt, McCune, Neitlich
We sought to assess impacts of fire and grazing by reindeer and caribou on lichen communities in northwestern Alaska. Macrolichen abundance was estimated from 45, 0.38-ha plots. Eighteen of those plots, scattered throughout the southern Seward Peninsula, represented two levels…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS