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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Degrandpré, Bergeron
We investigated the response of boreal understory communities to gap formation in order to evaluate the relationship between community stability and changes in community composition. We described the early changes in understory species composition after gap formation and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Evaluating the effects of prescribed fire and wildland fire requires a greater understanding of the fire behavior of organic soils. Determining the ignition limit of organic soils over a wide geographical area is the subject of this study. Side ignitions were attempted with an…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Helm
We documented Moose, Alces alces, habitat characteristics relative to boreal forest succession in the Susitna River floodplain, Alaska. Early Shrub and Old Poplar (Populus balsamifera) Forest sites were most important to wintering Moose. Browse availability was the principal…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Hardy
Alaskans in general felt that fires burned communities elsewhere but not in their backyard. That all started to change after the disastrous Miller's Reach Fire in June of 1996. Now Alaskans are thinking about and discussing the hazards and destructive power of wildfire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Starfield
We use a frame-based simulation model to estimate future rate of advance of the arctic treeline in response to scenarios of transient changes in temperature, precipitation, and fire regime. The model is simple enough to capture both the short-term direct response of vegetation…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boivin, Bégin
This study proposes a reconstruction of the past development of a forest stand submitted to long-term variations of snow levels. As of the 19th century, a gradient in tree-growth forms developed in a post-fire shoreline stand on Tombolo Island in Lake Bienville, Quebec. This…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Reinhardt
Calibration and testing of a computer simulation of the burning of large woody natural fuels has been presented previously in this journal. This note describes an improved calibration of the model for better prediction of fuel loading reductions. Using the same data as before,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Bradshaw
As the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) (see Burgan et al. 1997 in this issue of Fire Management Notes), it has been abundantly clear that weather inputs are the most…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boychuk, Perera
Natural fire disturbances are known to have had a significant role in boreal forests at the stand and landscape levels. Van Wagner's exponential model gave useful insight into the theoretical dynamics of the forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. His work…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boychuk, Perera, Ter-Mikaelian, Martell, Li
With the exponential model, Van Wagner (1978) gave us valuable insight in understanding stand age and forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. He showed that, under certain conditions, the probability distribution of the age of a stand subject to periodic renewal by…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Harrell, Kasischke, French
The study presented here focuses on using a spaceborne imaging radar, ERS-1, for mapping and estimating areal extent of fires which occurred in the interior region of Alaska. Fire scars are typically 3 to 6 dB brighter than adjacent unburned forests in the ERS-1 imagery. The…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arbatskaya, Vaganov
Dendrochronological methods were used to reconstruct the history of fires and radial increment in trunk growth in pine [Pinus spp. in natural forests] from the region between the Kasa and Dubchesa rivers (59 degrees -61 degrees N). The data obtained were compared with long-term…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skiba, Fowler, Smith
Global annual NO emissions from soil are of the order of 10 Tg NO-N. This is about half the amount fossil fuel combustion processes contribute to the annual global NOx budget. Reducing the emissions of soil derived NOx requires an understanding of the source of the flux and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Tellier
The nutrient (N, P, K, Mg, and Ca) content of the aboveground living non-crop vegetation of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) clear-cut in eastern Ontario was investigated for two years after site preparation, which consisted of prescribed burning under different fire…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Penner, Power, Muhairwe, Tellier, Wang
The importance of Canada's forest biomass in the global carbon cycle needs to be better understood as part of Canada's efforts to meet its objective of sustainable forestry. The distribution of biomass, as well as the changes associated with different management scenarios, have…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Savage, Moore, Crill
CH4 and CO2 fluxes were measured in upland boreal forest soils near Thompson, Manitoba, from May 16 to September 16, 1994. Most sites consumed atmospheric CH4, fluxes ranging from +0.6 to -2.6mgCH4m-2d-1, and emitted CO2 at rates between 0.2 and 26.8gCO2m-2d-1. There was some…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, O'Neill, Trumbore, Veldhuis, Stocks
We used input and decomposition data from 14C studies of soils to determine rates of vertical accumulation of moss combined with carbon storage inventories on a sequence of burns to model how carbon accumulates in soils and moss after a stand-killing fire. We used soil drainage-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finer, Messier, Degrandpré
Fine-root (diameter 10 mm) standing biomass, length, distribution, production, and decomposition were studied in mixed conifer/broadleaved forest stands 48, 122, and 232 yr after fire on clay soils in the southern boreal forest of Quebec. A combination of ingrowth bags, soil…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burke, Zepp, Tarr, Miller, Stocks
During the spring and summer of 1994 we monitored soil-atmosphere exchanges of methane and carbon dioxide at upland sites in the Canadian boreal forest near the northern study area (NSA) of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). The effects of fire on methane and carbon…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES