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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Williams
From the text ... 'The 1988 fire season showed us much about the importance of basing decisions on fire regimes and their associated fire behavior characteristics. Although our policies are necessarily broad, we are learnng that implementation of programs must be based on the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
van Wagtendonk
To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
From the text ... 'Wilderness areas are planned and managed as part of the entire Service land unit with appropriate management to comply with the Wilderness Act, and in Alaska, the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act. The Service has long recognized that ecosystems…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coloff
From the text ... 'Thus, the intent of this paper is to suggest that prescribed fire can be used in a manner that, on balance with wildfire, provides a net reduction in air emissions and a net improvement and benefit to air quality and public health, while maintaining the health…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Cleaves, Croft, Husari, Schuster, Truesdale
[unpublished report] From the text...'Because of the soaring expenditures (nearly $1 billion in FY 1994) for fire management, the Fire Economics Assessment Team was formed in January of 1995 by USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, and chartered with the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Flannigan
Although an increasing frequency of forest fires has been suggested as a consequence of global warming, there are no empirical data that have shown climatically driven increases in fire frequency since the warming that has followed the end of the 'Little Ice Age' (~1850). In…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wikars
Breeding populations of the fire-adapted carabid-beetle A. quadripunctatum were found in most of the fifteen investigated burned, uncut forests, but not in any of the fifteen burned clear-cuts, although a few immigrants were found in two of them. The proportion of open-habitat…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, MacDonald
Ring-width chronologies from three white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) and two jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites in the boreal forest of northern Alberta were constructed to determine whether they could provide proxy records of monthly weather, summer fire weather,…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neilson
A Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) has been constructed for simulating the potential biosphere impacts and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks from climatic change. The system calculates the potential vegetation type and leaf area that could be supported at a site, within…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lenihan, Neilson
The potential equilibrium response of Canadian vegetation under two doubled-CO2 climatic scenarios was investigated at three levels in the vegetation mosaic using the rule-based, Canadian Climate-Vegetation Model (CCVM) and climatic response surfaces. The climatic parameters…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Rosenbloom, Painter, Schimel, Melillo, Pan, Kicklighter, McGuire, Neilson, Chaney, Ojima, McKeown, Parton, Pulliam, Prentice, Haxeltine, Running, Pierce, Nemani, Hunt, Smith, Rizzo, Woodward
For the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP), we developed a model database of climate, soils and vegetation that was compatible with the requirements of three ecosystem physiology models and three vegetation life-form distribution models. A key constraint…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
The impact of climate change on human ecology in the northern latitudes is dependent upon the rate, magnitude, and duration of expected change. This paper provides a foundation for understanding these important components by describing elements of the high-latitude environment…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suffling
Models of terrestrial vegetation distribution change during warming have generally paid little attention to ecological disturbances such as fire, even though these have been shown to be vitally important. A model predicting regionally dominant terrestrial vegetation in…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schimel
The terrestrial biosphere plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. In the 1994 Intergovernmental Panel Assessment on Climate Change (IPCC), an effort was made to improve the quantification of terrestrial exchanges and potential feedbacks from climate, changing CO sub(…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Merriam
The development of forests in Pukaskwa National Park, Ontario, Canada, was simulated over 150 years to investigate boreal carbon dynamics and to test the feasibility of simulating large tracts of heterogeneous boreal forest. Pukaskwa National Park, located on the north shore of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hogenbirk, Wein
Experiments conducted in wet-meadows in northeastern Alberta, Canada, tested hypotheses about species response to environmental changes expected during global warming. We hypothesized that (i) a lower water table would decrease abundance of the dominant mesophytic species (…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Atkins
Burned and unburned sites (4 ha each) of black and white spruce in interior Alaska were studied in 1993 and 1994 within and adjacent to an area burned by wildfire in 1990. The main purpose of the research was to quantify fuel consumption and carbon release during the fire.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Shaver, Giblin, Nadelhoffer, Laundre
We manipulated light, temperature, and nutrients in moist tussock tundra near Toolik Lake, Alaska to determine how global changes in these parameters might affect community and ecosystem processes. Some of these manipulations altered nutrient availability, growth-form…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunnell
Structure of native vertebrate faunas within 12 different forest types were related to features of the natural fire regime. Relations between faunal structure and fire regime followed patterns expected if faunas were adapted to fire regimes. Proportions of species breeding early…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, Christensen, Stocks
Fire strongly influences carbon cycling and storage in boreal forests. In the near-term, if global warming occurs, the frequency and intensity of fires in boreal forests are likely to increase significantly. A sensitivity analysis on the relationship between fire and carbon…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS