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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Breen, Hollingsworth
Fires in the tundra can drastically alter vegetation and ecosystem characteristics. Drs. Hollingsworth and Breen (from the U.S. Forest Service and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, respectively) review the effects of climate on fire regime and wildfire in Alaska. They compare fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Bioenergy production from forest biomass offers a solution to reduce wildfire hazard fuel levels, decrease insect and disease outbreaks, and reduce the incidence of invasive species while producing a useful…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dubreuil, Moore
The redistribution of nutrients after fire was examined under laboratory conditions by igniting samples of spruce needles, birch leaves and lichen and leaching the ash through a soil column. Nitrogen was lost from the tissue samples at temperatures above 200 deg C, and 52-88% of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ahlgren, Ahlgren
A review of literature, with chief reference to North America, but including also much literature from other parts of the world, under the main heads: effects of fire on soil (moisture relations, texture, temperature during and after burning, fertility, and chemical composition…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodmansee
The effects of fire on the biogeochemical cycles of ecosystems are considered: (1) the effects on the abiotic controlling factors (temperature, H-ion concentration, ex- changeable bases, available water, and light); (2) the initial, or direct, effects; and (3) the postfire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wells
[from the text] Understanding the effects of prescribed burning on soil properties is important in forestry applications. If burning has no detrimental effect on soil, it can be used for fuel reduction and hardwood control. However, if burning does have an adverse influence on…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Cleve
This study reports the first 2 years' results of a thinning and fertilization study conducted in a 70-year-old white spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. A 2.7-fold increase in tree diameter growth during this period was attributed to improved soil moisture, temperature, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Conrad, Dieterich, Hornbeck, Megahan, Viereck, Wade
The main effect burning on water quality is the potential for increased runoff of rainfall. Runoff may carry suspended soil particles, dissolved inorganic nutrients, and other materials into adjacent streams and lakes, reducing water quality and degrading fish habitat (Wade and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Handleman
Chemicals play an increasingly important role in fire control operations. Techniques have progressed from applications of borate and bentonite slurries in the 1950's, to the current widespread utilization of long-term retardants-diammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Page-Dumroese, Jurgensen, Harvey
This chapter discusses the impact of fire on soil carbon (C) pools, recovery after fire, the effects of a fire suppression policy on soil C, methods to estimate C losses from fire, and the implications of fire management on soil C cycling and sequestration.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Auclair
Unique aspects of fire in lichen tundra and forest-tundra were enumerated. The very high inherent fire susceptibility is related to the presence of lichens and shrubs. Lichens are predisposed to burning by virtue of continuous distribution on the soil surface, high surface-…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Betson, Johannisson, Lofvenius, Grip, Granström, Hogberg
We report an analysis of both the long- and short-term drivers of the carbon (C) isotope composition (delta C-13) values of current year needles of Pinus sylvestris L. linked to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations (c(a)) and climate using data from a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
June
Presented by Nicole June as part of the REU Workshop on August 8th, 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hoy, Turetsky, Kasischke
Much recent research has investigated the effects of burning on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forests in interior Alaska, however little research has focused on how frequent reburning affects soil organic layer (SOL) vulnerability in these ecosystems. We compared organic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brustet, Benech, Waldteufel
The possibility of applying infrared imagery to the study of a large, hot plume materialized by carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil is investigated. In a specific case (the PROSERPINE experiment), due to the high carbon particle content, the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Dempster, Hawkins, Johnston, Boxall, Rolfe, Kragt, Burton, Pannell
Prioritising investments to minimise or mitigate natural hazards such as wildfires and storms is of increasing importance to hazard managers. Prioritisation of this type can be strengthened by considering benefit and cost impacts. To evaluate benefits and costs, managers require…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belenguer-Plomer, Tanase, Fernandez-Carrillo, Chuvieco
This paper presents a burned area mapping algorithm based on change detection of Sentinel-1 backscatter data guided by thermal anomalies. The algorithm self-adapts to the local scattering conditions and it is robust to variations of input data availability. The algorithm applies…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the text...'Substance must be given to policies that state that fire suppression costs should be proportional to values at risk and that fire should assume a more natural role in manging the landscape. A workshop of Canadian fire experts was convened by the Candian Forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liski, Ilvesniemi, Makela, Starr
Potential causes for changes in the amounts of carbon (C) stored in the soils of boreal forests were studied by measuring the C in the soil along a 5000-year chronosequence in coastal western Finland and using a simple dynamic model of decomposition. The amount of soil C…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton, Richard, Carcaillet, Bergeron
Introduction...'Fire and climate are closely linked (Swetnam 1993). According to simulations of various general circulation models (GCMs), the earth's climate will be 1-3.5º C warmer by the end of the next century due to increasing atmospheric concentrations of radiatively…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodcock, Wells
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here designated as the most burnable part…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaeffer
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... '...[B]efore discussing these four questions in more detail let me further show that forest fires are of a very ancient lineage and that their particulates have been a part of the natural atmosphere for milleniums. ....Now to the questions:1. Are the carbon…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell
'The United States obtains approximately 2.7 quads of energy per year from biomass while producing 1.5-3.0 million tons of ash. In the future, energy from biomass should increase to 4 quads, and perhaps it will go as high as 10-20 quads (1). Most of this energy comes from paper…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan
Consistent success in prescribed underburning requires managers to specify acceptable levels of fire injury and to describe the fuels, weather, and fire behavior necessary to accomplish the objectives. Information is assembled to assist managers in this process. Relationships…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS