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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Auclair, Carter
Since 1977, the extent of forest wildfires in the boreal and western regions of North America increased by 6 to 9x over long-term trends, and an estimated 132x106 ha of temperate and boreal forest burned across the northern hemisphere. Emissions during and after burning may have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomass combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to over…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Asselin, Payette
The basic unit of the forest-tundra landscape is a toposequence extending from a wet, forested valley to a xeric, deforested hilltop; the contact zone between these two environments being called a subarctic tree line. Dendrochronological analysis of living, dead, and subfossil…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Asselin, Payette
Assessment of the impacts of future climate change on the boreal forest and forest-tundra biomes relies on a clear understanding of their past dynamics. Fire history information recorded in lake and peat sediments can be retrieved by counting charcoal particles on pollen slides…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
As
Modern forestry has changed the fire dynamics in the boreal forest, and as a result the size and number of deciduous forest patches have been reduced as well as the number of deciduous trees within coniferous forests. This has exaggerated the insularity of deciduous forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Armstrong, Swant, Timmermann
The Ogoki-North Nakina Forests consist of 10 638 km^2 of unroaded boreal forest (predominantly Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana and Populus tremuloides) about 400 km NE of Thunder Bay, Ontario (latitude 50 degrees -51 degrees 31'N., longitude 86 degrees 30'-89 degrees W.).…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Armstrong
The annual area burned on an 8.6 x 106 ha study area in the boreal mixedwood forest of northeastern Alberta, Canada, was characterized as a serially independent random draw from a lognormal distribution. This characterization was applied in Monte Carlo simulations, which showed…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Archibold
Soils collected from seven sample plots in a burned mixed-wood area in northern Saskatchewan were held under optimum laboratory conditions to determine the number of viable seeds and latent underground buds. A total of 270 plants developed, representing a rate of emergence of…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arbatskaya, Vaganov
Dendrochronological methods were used to reconstruct the history of fires and radial increment in trunk growth in pine [Pinus spp. in natural forests] from the region between the Kasa and Dubchesa rivers (59 degrees -61 degrees N). The data obtained were compared with long-term…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Apps, Shvidenko, Vaganov
This special issue contains 14 papers providing information on the adaptation and mitigation strategies of northern forest biomes as a consequence both of climatic change impacts. The first paper provides a review of the history and contributions of the International Boreal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Apps, McGuire
Twenty papers are presented from the conference convened jointly by the International Boreal Forest Research Association and the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program. A further 9 papers will be published in a special issue of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Angelstam
A conceptual model is presented as a guide to the maintenance and restoration of ecologically sustainable boreal forest. The model is based on the hypothesis that self-sustained forest ecosystems can be (re-)created, and their biodiversity developed, if forest management can…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Loftsgaarden, Bradshaw
Methods are presented for analyzing the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire activity as a means of evaluating the performance of fire danger rating systems. Percentile analysis is used to examine the data itself; logistic regression provides a means for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Hallett, Berg, Jass, Toney, De Fontaine, De Volder
Several studies have noted a relationship between vegetation type and fire frequency, yet despite the importance of ecosystem processes such as fire the long-term relationships between disturbance, climate and vegetation type are incompletely understood. We analysed pollen,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andersen, Reutebuch, McGaughey
Accurate digital terrain models (DTMs) are necessary for a variety of forest resource management applications, including watershed management, timber harvest planning, and fire management. Traditional methods for acquiring topographic data typically rely on aerial photogrammetry…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Orchansky, Barr, Black, Chambers, Chapin, Goulden, Litvak, Liu, McCaughey, McMillan, Randerson
Fire in the boreal forest renews forest stands and changes the ecosystem properties. The successional stage of the vegetation determines the radiative budget, energy balance partitioning, evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide flux. Here, we synthesize energy balance measurements…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, MacPherson, Desjardins, Chen, Liu
Recent CO2 flux measurements from towers and aircraft (net ecosystem exchange by eddy covariance) and remote sensing/modeling (net primary productivity - NPP) following fire show that the regenerating boreal forest in western Canada has a low initial flux that increases with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Chen
The mapping of Canadian fires is a large effort supported by provincial, territorial, and federal agencies. Remote sensing techniques can aid in mapping, especially in remote areas and during busy fire seasons. The SPOT-VEGETATION (SPOT-VGT) sensor has previously shown promise…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Amiro, Flannigan, Stocks, Wotton
A recent analysis indicates that Canadian forest fires have released an average of 27 Mt (1012 g) of carbon annually over the past four decades (Amiro et al. 2001a). These emissions are caused by direct combustion. About an equal additional amount of carbon may also be lost…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro
Disturbances by fire and harvesting were thought to regulate the carbon balance of the Canadian boreal forest over scales of several decades. However, there are few direct measurements of carbon fluxes following disturbances to provide data needed to refine mathematical models.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Chen, Liu
Recent modelling results indicate that forest fires and other disturbances determine the magnitude of the Canadian forest carbon balance. The regeneration of post-fire vegetation is key to the recovery of net primary productivity (NPP) following fire. The study geographically co…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We extend existing stand-level models of forest landowner behavior in the presence of fire risk to include the level and timing of fuel management activities. These activities reduce losses if a stand ignites. Based on simulations, we find the standard result that fire risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value of three types of information about fire risk to a nonindustrial forest landowner: the relationship between fire arrival rates and stand age, the magnitude of fire arrival rates, and the efficacy of fuel reduction treatment. Our model incorporates planting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value to a non-industrial forest landowner of information about the magnitude of fire arrival rates. A simulation based on a model from Amacher et al. [Amacher, G., Malik, A., Haight, R., in press. Not getting burned: the importance of fire prevention in forest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alo, Wang
A number of previous modeling studies have assessed the implications of projected CO2-induced climate change for future terrestrial ecosystems. However, although current understanding of possible long-term response of vegetation to elevated CO2 and CO2-induced climate change in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES