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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Meyn, Schmidtlein, Taylor, Girardin, Thonicke, Cramer
Trends of summer precipitation and summer temperature and their influence on trends in summer drought and area burned in British Columbia (BC) were investigated for the period 1920-2000. The complexity imposed by topography was taken into account by incorporating high spatial…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mavsar, González-Cabán, Varela
Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Masek, Goward, Kennedy, Cohen, Moisen, Schleeweis, Huang
Disturbance events strongly affect the composition, structure, and function of forest ecosystems; however, existing US land management inventories were not designed to monitor disturbance. To begin addressing this gap, the North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) project has…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Marcoux, Gergel, Daniels
Maps depicting historic fire regimes provide critical baselines for sustainable forest management and wildfire risk assessments. However, given our poor understanding of mixed-severity fire regimes, we asked if there may be considerable errors in fire-regime classification…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Magnussen, Fehrman, Platt
Density estimators for k-tree distance sampling are sensitive to the amount of extra Poisson variance in distances to the kth tree. To lessen this sensitivity, we propose an adaptive composite estimator (COM). In simulated sampling from 16 test populations, a three-component…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

MacDougall, McCann, Gellner, Turkington
Long-term and persistent human disturbances have simultaneously altered the stability and diversity of ecological systems, with disturbances directly reducing functional attributes such as invasion resistance, while eliminating the buffering effects of high species diversity1-4…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lorente, Parsons, McIntire, Munson
Aims: Natural disturbances leave long-term legacies that vary among landscapes and ecosystem types, and which become integral parts of successional processes at a given location. As humans change land use, not only are immediate post-disturbance patterns altered, but the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Longcore, Rich, Mineau, MacDonald, Bert, Sullivan, Mutrie, Gauthreaux, Avery, Crawford, Manville, Travis, Drake
Avian mortality at communication towers in the continental United States and Canada is an issue of pressing conservation concern. Previous estimates of this mortality have been based on limited data and have not included Canada. We compiled a database of communication towers in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Liu, Zhang, Nowak, Dimeyeva
The invasion of nonnative plants is considered one of the main threats to the structure and function of North American ecosystems. Moreover, they can alter ecosystem processes and reduce biodiversity. In arid and semi-arid region of North America, the species of European annual…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Le Page, Hurtt, Thomson, Bond-Lamberty, Patel, Wise, Calvin, Kyle, Clarke, Edmonds, Janetos
The present and future concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide depends on both anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks of carbon. Most proposed climate mitigation strategies rely on a progressive transition to carbon-efficient technologies to reduce industrial emissions…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kulakowski, Kaye, Kashian
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is one of the most important tree species in the western United States due to its role in biodiversity, tourism, and other ecological and aesthetic values. This paper provides an overview of the drivers of long-term aspen cover change…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kreye, Varner, Dugaw, Cao, Szecsei, Engber
The ignition and combustion of forest floor duff are poorly understood yet have been linked to soil heating and overstory tree mortality in many temperate coniferous forests. Research to date has focused on the characteristics of duff that facilitate ignition and spread,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kolden, Abatzoglou
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kintisch
Scientists and firefighters ponder new ways to predict the spread of wildfire as the U.S. West faces ever more potent blazes.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kelly, Chipman, Higuera, Stefanova, Brubaker, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for elucidating boreal fire regime dynamics under changing climate, because fire return intervals and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kasischke, Amiro, Barger, French, Goetz, Grosse, Harmon, Hicke, Liu, Masek
Because it is an important regulator of terrestrial carbon cycling in North America, extensive research on natural and human disturbances has been carried out as part of the North American Carbon Program and the CarboNA project. A synthesis of various components of this research…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Jorgenson, Harden, Kanevskiy, O'Donnell, Wickland, Ewing, Manies, Zhuang, Shur, Striegl, Koch
The diversity of ecosystems across boreal landscapes, successional changes after disturbance and complicated permafrost histories, present enormous challenges for assessing how vegetation, water and soil carbon may respond to climate change in boreal regions. To address this…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Jones, Kimball, Jones
The rate of vegetation recovery from boreal wildfire influences terrestrial carbon cycle processes and climate feedbacks by affecting the surface energy budget and land-atmosphere carbon exchange. Previous forest recovery assessments using satellite optical-infrared normalized…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Jones, Breen, Gaglioti, Mann, Rocha, Grosse, Arp, Kunz, Walker
Characteristics of the natural fire regime are poorly resolved in the Arctic, even though fire may play an important role cycling carbon stored in tundra vegetation and soils to the atmosphere. In the course of studying vegetation and permafrost-terrain characteristics along a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Jain, Pilliod, Graham, Lentile, Sandquist
Many scientists and managers have an interest in describing the environment following a fire to understand the effects on soil productivity, vegetation growth, and wildlife habitat, but little research has focused on the scientific rationale for classifying the post-fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Jafarov, Romanovsky, Genet, McGuire, Marchenko
Fire is an important factor controlling the composition and thickness of the organic layer in the black spruce forest ecosystems of interior Alaska. Fire that burns the organic layer can trigger dramatic changes in the underlying permafrost, leading to accelerated ground thawing…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Iwata, Ueyama, Iwama, Harazono
Absorption of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) by vegetation was observed in two burned black spruce forests, one and seven years after wildfire, in interior Alaska along with several vegetation properties. This study considered PAR absorption by mosses by examining the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hyde, Dickinson, Bohrer, Calkin, Evers, Gilbertson-Day, Nicolet, Ryan, Tague
Wildland fire management has moved beyond a singular focus on suppression, calling for wildfire management for ecological benefit where no critical human assets are at risk. Processes causing direct effects and indirect, long-term ecosystem changes are complex and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Hudak, Ottmar, Vihnanek, Brewer, Smith, Morgan
White ash results from the complete combustion of surface fuels, making it a logically simple retrospective indicator of surface fuel consumption. However, the strength of this relationship has been neither tested nor adequately demonstrated with field measurements. We measured…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Holmes, González-Cabán, Loomis, Sanchez
In this paper, we investigate homeowner preferences and willingness to pay for wildfire protection programs using a choice experiment with three attributes: risk, loss and cost. Preference heterogeneity among survey respondents was examined using three econometric models and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS