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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Preburn history and seasonal burning effects on the soil seed bank in the Fescue Prairie

Romo, Gross
Fescue Prairie is one of the most threatened ecosystems in Canada, and burning is essential for conserving remnants of this grassland. Burning is a key process in the natural disturbance regime, but its effect on the soil seed bank in Fescue Prairie is poorly understood. We…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The fire down below

Revkin, Rein
From the text ... 'Smoldering fires, the slow, low-temperature, flameless form of combustion, are an important phenomena in the Earth system, and the most persistent type of combustion. The most important fuels involved in smoldering fires are coal and peat. Once ignited, these…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soil-vegetation patterns in secondary slash and burn successions in Central Menabe, Madagascar

Raharimalala, Buttler, Ramohavelo, Razanaka, Sorg, Gobat
Slash and burn agriculture is a traditional and predominant land use practice in Madagascar and its relevance in the context of forest preservation is significant. At the end of a cycle of culture, the fields become mostly weed covered and the soil fertility starts to drop. As a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stability in the patterns of long-term development and growth of the Canadian spruce-moss forest

Pollock, Payette
Aim The spruce-moss forest is the main forest ecosystem of the North American boreal forest. We used stand structure and fire data to examine the long-term development and growth of the spruce-moss ecosystem. We evaluate the stability of the forest with time and the conditions…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Review of termite forest ecology and opportunities to investigate the relationship of termites to fire

Peterson
In forests, termites serve as ''soil engineers,'' translocating mineral soil to the surface, constructing macropores to improve water infiltration, increase soil minerals and organic carbon, facilitate the growth of microbes and affect the growth of vegetation. The future…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Interactive effects of historical logging and fire exclusion on ponderosa pine forest structure in the northern Rockies

Naficy, Sala, Keeling, Graham, DeLuca
Increased forest density resulting from decades of fire exclusion is often perceived as the leading cause of historically aberrant, severe, contemporary wildfires and insect outbreaks documented in some fire-prone forests of the western United States. Based on this notion,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Monitoring the small and slimy - protected areas should be monitoring native and non-native slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

Moss, Hermanutz
Although slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) are known to be important generalist herbivores, fungivores, and detrivores in a variety of ecosystems, little is known about their abundance and diversity in protected areas. Likewise, the presence of non-native slug species and their…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Talking about fire: Pikangikum First Nation elders guiding fire management

Miller, Davidson-Hunt, Peters
In this paper, we present how elders of Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario have drawn upon their knowledge and values associated with fire to engage in fire management planning for 1.3 million hectares of their traditional boreal forest territory. Over a period of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of fire, insect, and pathogen damage on wood quality of dead and dying western confers

Lowell, Rapp, Haynes, Cray
We update and expand the 1992 survey of research findings by Lowell and colleagues, providing an ecological context for the findings, using a more reader-friendly format, and including extensive citations so readers can get indepth information on particular topics. Our intent is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Developing and comparing silvicultural alternatives: goals, objectives, and evaluation criteria

Long, Smith, Roberts
We outline an approach for developing and comparing silvicultural alternatives. The approach has multiple advantages, including explicit links between goals, management approaches, and outcomes; efficient development of alternative means of accomplishing the goals; and effective…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Environmental benefits of using magnesium carbonate minerals as new wildfire retardants instead of commercially available, phosphate-based compounds

Liodakis, Tsoukala
A serial batch leaching experiment has been carried out to evaluate the release of elements from the ash of Pinus halepensis needles burned under two test conditions-with and without treatment of the forest species with the carbonate minerals (huntite and hydromagnesite) in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rapid responses to facilitate ecological discoveries from major disturbances

Lindenmayer, Likens, Franklin
Large-scale natural disturbances are commonplace around the world. They can have profound effects on human infrastructure and populations, as well as substantially influencing key ecological processes, shaping landscapes, and affecting many species. Major natural disturbances…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire decision support systems air quality tools

Larkin, Brown, Lahm, Zimmerman
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) is a new Web-based system designed to integrate science and technology in support of risk-informed decisionmaking for wildland fires. ... WFDSS replaces three past wildland fire decision analysis and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of green alder (Alnus viridis subsp. fruticosa) patch dynamics and plant community composition to fire and regional temperature in north-western Canada

Lantz, Gergel, Henry
Aim Feedbacks between climate warming and fire have the potential to alter Arctic and sub-Arctic vegetation. In this paper we assess the effects and interactions of temperature and wildfire on plant communities across the transition between the Arctic and sub-Arctic.Location…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The economic cost of adverse health effects from wildfire-smoke exposure: a review

Kochi, Donovan, Champ, Loomis
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Impact of wildfire intensity and logging on fungal and nitrogen-cycling bacterial communities in British Columbia forest soils

Kennedy, Egger
Wildfire and logging are common disturbances in the forests of northwestern North America, causing changes in soil chemistry and microbiology, including fungal and nitrogen-cycling bacterial communities. These organisms play key roles in nutrient cycling, and affect the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Using a stochastic model and cross-scale analysis to evaluate controls on historical low-severity fire regimes

Kennedy, McKenzie
Fire-scarred trees provide a deep temporal record of historical fire activity, but identifying the mechanisms therein that controlled landscape fire patterns is not straightforward. We use a spatially correlated metric for fire co-occurrence between pairs of trees (the Sørensen…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Topographic controls on black carbon accumulation in Alaskan black spruce forest soils: implications for organic matter dynamics

Kane, Hockaday, Turetsky, Masiello, Valentine, Finney, Baldock
There is still much uncertainty as to how wildfire affects the accumulation of burn residues (such as black carbon (BC)) in the soil, and the corresponding changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) composition in boreal forests. We investigated SOC and BC composition in black spruce…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Functional complementarity of Douglas-fir ectomycorrhizas for extracellular enzyme activity after wildfire or clearcut logging

Jones, Twieg, Ward, Barker, Durall, Simard
Summary1. Clearcut logging results in major changes in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities, but whether this results in the loss of key functional traits, such as those associated with nutrient acquisition from soil organic matter, is unknown. Furthermore, little is known about…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Winter habitat selection by caribou in relation to lichen abundance, wildfires, grazing, and landscape characteristics in northwest Alaska

Joly, Chapin, Klein
Lichens are an important winter forage for large, migratory herds of caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) that can influence population dynamics through effects on body condition and in turn calf recruitment and survival. We investigated the vegetative and physiographic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vulnerability of carbon storage in North American boreal forests to wildfires during the 21st century

Balshi, McGuire, Duffy, Flannigan, Kicklighter, Melillo
The boreal forest contains large reserves of carbon. Across this region, wildfires influence the temporal and spatial dynamics of carbon storage. In this study, we estimate fire emissions and changes in carbon storage for boreal North America over the 21st century. We use a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Influence of fire and mountain pine beetle on the dynamics of lodgepole pine stands in British Columbia, Canada

Axelson, Alfaro, Hawkes
An outbreak of the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins; MPB), currently affecting over 10.1 million hectares of lodgepole pine forests (Pinus contorta Dougl.) in British Columbia, Canada, is the largest in recorded history. We examined the dynamics of even-aged…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of environmental variations on CO2 efflux from a tropical peatland in eastern Sumatra

Ali, Taylor, Inubushi
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Intercomparison of near-real-time biomass burning emissions estimates constrained by satellite fire data

Al-Saadi, Soja, Pierce, Szykman, Wiedinmyer, Emmons, Kondragunta, Zhang, Kittaka, Schaack, Bowman
We compare biomass burning emissions estimates from four different techniques that use satellite based fire products to determine area burned over regional to global domains. Three of the techniques use active fire detections from polar-orbiting MODIS sensors and one uses…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The impact of the 1998 forest fire on ectomycorrhizae of dipterocarp trees and their recovery in tropical rain forests of East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Akema, Nurhiftisni, Suciatmih, Simbolon
The impact of forest fire in 1997 and 1998 on the mycorrhzae was studied at the dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In unaffected forest more than half of total ectomycorrhizae distributed in the organic layer but in the fire-affected forest one and a half years…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS