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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Langner, Siegert
South-east Asia's tropical rainforests are experiencing the highest rate of deforestation worldwide and fire is one of the most important drivers of forest loss and subsequent carbon dioxide emissions. In this study, we analyzed all fire events in Borneo recorded by satellites…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Langmann, Duncan, Textor, Trentmann, Van der Werf
Gaseous and particulate emissions from vegetation fires substantially modify the atmospheric chemical composition, degrade air quality and can alter weather and climate. The impact of vegetation fire emissions on air pollution and climate has been recognised in the late 1970s.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Krawchuk, Cumming, Flannigan
Forecasting future fire activity as a function of climate change is a step towards understanding the future state of the western mixedwood boreal ecosystem. We developed five annual weather indices based on the Daily Severity Rating (DSR) of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kardynal, Hobson, Van Wilgenburg, Morissette
Forest harvesting strategies that approximate natural disturbances have been proposed as a means of maintaining natural species' diversity and richness in the boreal forests of North America. Natural disturbances impact shoreline forests and upland areas at similar rates.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kane, Vogel
To understand how carbon (C) pools in boreal ecosystems may change with warming, we measured above- and belowground C pools and C increment along a soil temperature gradient across 16 mature upland black spruce (Picea mariana Mill. [B·S.P]) forests in interior Alaska. Total…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hsi, Kuo
Estimating solid residue gross burning rate and heating value burning in a power plant furnace is essential for adequate manipulation to achieve energy conversion optimization and plant performance. A model based on conservation equations of mass and thermal energy is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Herbert
The monotypic genus Canacomyrica Guillaumin is a small tree endemic to the rare remaining fragments of primary forest growing on ultramafic geology in New Caledonia. In the rich flora of this island it is one of many endemics to be threatened by habitat loss due to a variety of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hebblewhite, Munro, Merrill
Controversy surrounds postfire logging, often because of negative effects on snag-dependent wildlife species. Few studies, however, have examined effects on early-seral species that may benefit from postfire logging, nor effects on trophic relationships. We studied the effects…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garcia, Braun, Bryce, Tymstra
The PROMETHEUS model is a spatially explicit, deterministic fire growth model, praised for being beneficial in various aspects of fire management. Our goal is to build on this success, applying statistical smoothing to alleviate some computational difficulties and to increase…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Stocks, Turetsky, Wotton
Forest fires are a significant and natural element of the circumboreal forest. Fire activity is strongly linked to weather, and increased fire activity due to climate change is anticipated or arguably has already occurred. Recent studies suggest a doubling of area burned along…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Escutia-Lara, Gomez-Romero, Lindig-Cisneros
In an outdoor mesocosm experiment of 80 weeks, the effect of nitrogen and phosphorus addition was tested on growth of Typha domingensis Presl. rhizomes in a matrix of Schoenoplectus americanus (Pets.) Volkart ex Schinz and Keller, under loading rates of 0.23 gm-2 d-1 of nitrogen…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eiswerth, Krauter, Swanson, Zielinski
Since the mid-1980s, sagebrush rangelands in the Great Basin of the United States have experienced more frequent and larger wildfires. These fires affect livestock forage, the sagebrush/grasses/forbs mosaic that is important for many wildlife species (e.g., the greater sage…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drechsler, Lourival, Possingham
The systematic conservation planning literature invariably assumes that the biodiversity features being preserved in sites do not change through time. We develop a conservation planning framework for ecosystems where disturbance events and succession drive vegetation dynamics.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de las, Bonilla, Martinez
Pinus tropicalis Morelet and P. caribaea var. caribaea are two of the four endemic pine species in Cuba. They form mixed and pure stands in the western part of the island where fire is an important factor affecting pine distribution and forest structure. In this paper the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Survival and sanitation of dwarf mistletoe-infected ponderosa pine following prescribed underburning
We present results on survival of ponderosa pine and reduction in dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium) infection after six operational prescribed underburns in New Mexico. Survival 3 years postburn for 1,585 trees fit a logistic relationship with crown scorch, bole char, and mistletoe…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chertov, Bhatti, Komarov, Mikhailov, Bykhovets
The results of EFIMOD Simulations for black spruce (Picea mariana [Miller]) forests in Central Canada show that climate warming, fire, harvesting and insects significantly influence net primary productivity (NPP), soil respiration (Rs), net ecosystem production (NEP) and pools…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chen, Vasiliauskas, Kayahara, Ilisson
Postfire tree species compositions are predicted to be the same prior to fire according to the direct regeneration hypothesis (DRH). We studied 94 upland boreal forest stands between 5 and 18 years after fire in Ontario, Canada. Postfire species-specific regeneration density was…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butry, Donovan
Climate change, increased wildland fuels, and residential development patterns in fire-prone areas all combine to make wildfire risk mitigation an important public policy issue. One approach to wildfire risk mitigation is to encourage homeowners to use fire-resistant building…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerner, Giai, Huang, Miesel
This study assessed the first-year effect of three ecosystem restoration treatments (prescribed fire, mechanical thinning, and their combination) on soil enzyme activity, soil N transformations, and C:N ratios of soil organic matter and mineral soil in eight North American…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baer, Engle, Knops, Langeland, Maxwell, Menalled, Symstad
Vast areas of arable land have been retired from crop production and ''rehabilitated'' to improved system states through landowner incentive programs in the United States (e.g., Conservation and Wetland Reserve Programs), as well as Europe (i.e., Agri-Environment Schemes). Our…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a computer program based on mathematical models that describe wildland fire behavior and effects and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a host of fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
Ali, Carcaillet, Bergeron
The influence of climatic and local nonclimatic factors on the fire regime of the eastern Canadian boreal forest over the last 8000 years is investigated by examining charred particles preserved in four lacustrine deposits. Herein, we compare the distribution of fire-free…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aguilar-Fernandez, Jaramillo, Varela-Fregoso, Gavito
Rates of land conversion from forest to cultivated land by slash-and-burn practices are higher in tropical dry forest (TDF) than any other Neotropical forest type. This study examined the short-term consequences of the slash-and-burn process on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wuerthner
From the Introduction (p.xv) ... 'White this book is about fire policy and fire ecology, it is also a discussion of a much larger philosophical debate over the ultimate role and influence humans should have on natural landscapes.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS