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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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MacKinnon, Vold
We analyzed more than 7,000 1:20,000-scale forest cover maps for British Columbia to determine the amount of old-growth forest in the Canadian province. For this exercise, ''old growth'' was defined as: forests on the coast > 250 years old; and forests in the interior >…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mackay
Active layer changes after the 1968 forest-tundra fire at Inuvik, N.W.T., have been monitored from 1968 to 1993 at three burned and two unburned sites. In addition, a burned site has been used for field experiments on changes to the active layer. The active layer depths have…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mackay
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mackay, Mackay
Experiments were carried out during the 1967-1972 period in an attempt to measure cryostatic (frost-induced) pressures by means of soil pressure cells installed in nonsorted circles (mud hummocks) at Inuvik, N.W.T. Although slight soil pressure increases were measured in the…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Macdonald, Bergeron
This proceedings contain 16 papers on disturbance processes in boreal forests and their ecological effects. This special issue begins with a series of papers examining the effects of fire and forest harvesting on regeneration processes, understorey community development, forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacCracken, Viereck
This study was undertaken to estimate the short-term effects of fire on plant response and moose (Alces alces Miller) browse following the Rosie Creek fire near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fire consumed forests of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michc.), paper birch (Betula…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lynham, Wickware, Mason
In 1975 and 1976, an experimental burning programme was conducted in an immature stand of boreal jack pine (Pinus banksiana) growing on level, granitic outwash sands in northern Ontario, Canada. Nine 0.4-ha plots were burned under a range of fire weather conditions and sampling…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynch, Clark, Stocks
The relationship between charcoal production from fires and charcoal deposition in lakes is poorly understood, which limits the interpretation of sediment charcoal records. This calibration study assessed charcoal particle production, size, and transport during the International…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lynch, Wu
Observations show that the amplitude of the annual atmospheric carbon dioxide cycle has increased. Lagged correlations between carbon dioxide, temperature, and vegetation suggest a modulation by ecosystem response, but the mechanisms remain unclear. Hypotheses include an early…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
From introduction: 'The boreal forest of Alaska represents the northwestern portion of a great transcontinental forest belt that extends through more than 110 degrees longitude, from Newfoundland and the Labrador coast in Canada to the limits of tree growth on the Seward…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lumley, Gignac, Currah
Fallen logs of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and white spruce (Picea glauca) at various stages of decomposition were sampled from undisturbed and 1-, 14-, and 28-year-old post-fire and post-harvest sites in northern Alberta, Canada, and studied for differences in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lugo, Swanson, González, Adams, Palik, Thill, Brockway, Kern, Woodsmith, Musselman
The network of experimental forests and ranges administered by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service consists of 77 properties that are representative of most forest cover types and many ecological regions in the nation. Established as early as 1908, these sites…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Land-use change and carbon sinks: econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function
When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies ù such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation ù should be part of the domestic portfolio of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loranger, Bailey, Larned
Data from standardized aerial surveys during 1964-90 were used to study the timing, extent and rate of decline of winter densities of moose (Alces alces) in early seral forest burned in 1969 (13-21 yr post-fire), in mid-successional forest burned in 1947 (17-43 yr post-fire) and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Randerson, Lindfors, Chapin
Understanding links between the disturbance regime and regional climate in boreal regions requires observations of the surface energy budget from ecosystems in various stages of secondary succession. While several studies have characterized fire-induced differences in surface…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little
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Year: 1953
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Winterkamp, Edminster, Colman, Smith
Ten simulations were performed with the HIGRAD/FIRETEC wildfire behaviour model in order to explore its utility in studying wildfire behaviour in inhomogeneous topography. The goal of these simulations is to explore the potential extent of the coupling between the fire,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liljedahl, Hinzman, Busey, Yoshikawa
The Kougarok area, situated on the central Seward Peninsula, Alaska, experienced a severe fire in August 2002. This may be the only tundra fire where high-quality prefire (1999-2002) and postfire (2003-2006) active layer and meteorology measurements have been collected in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liew, Kwoh, Padmanabhan, Lim, Him
Cloud-penetrating C-band synthetic aperture radar imagery acquired during two ERS-1/2 tandem missions (April 1996 and October 1997) was used in mapping burnt areas in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the 1997 Southeast Asia forest fire episode. Vegetated areas were classified…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Fraser, Jin, Abuelgasim, Csiszar, Gong, Pu, Hao
This paper presents an evaluation of advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR)-based remote sensing algorithms for detecting active vegetation fires [Li et al., 2000a] and mapping burned areas [Fraser et al., 2000] throughout North America. The procedures were originally…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Nadon, Cihlar
This study presents a comprehensive investigation of fires across the Canadian boreal forest zone by means of satellite-based remote sensing. A fire-detection algorithm was designed to monitor fires using daily Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images. It exploits…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Guritz, Logan, Shindle, Groves, Olmsted, Carsey, Macmahon
One of the largest terrain corrected synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mosaics, a mosaic of the state of Alaska, was created from 800 ERS-1 SAR summer images. Because of rain events, significant temporal changes of soil moisture often cause substantial changes in the signature of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Kaufman, Hao, Meghan Salmon, Gao
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments onboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra and Aqua spacecrafts have several visible and near-infrared (NIR) channels with resolutions of 250, 500, and 1 km for remote sensing of land…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Lindgren
Disturbance patterns in the sub-boreal spruce forests of central British Columbia (Canada) have long been thought to result from frequent stand-initiating fires. However, recent evidence suggests that fires in the wetter areas of this region are infrequent (intervals of >500…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lertzman, Gavin, Hallett, Brubaker, Lepofsky, Mathewes
Coastal temperate rainforests from southeast Alaska through to southern Oregon are ecologically distinct from forests of neighboring regions, which have a drier, or more continental, climate and disturbance regimes dominated by fires. The long-term role of fire remains one of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES