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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cahoon, Stocks, Alexander, Baum, Goldammer
New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission. Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened by fire suppression, and the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunton
The USDA Forest Service stores fire occurrence data in a relational data base for planning, analysis, and other purposes. Weather observations are stored in the same data base for all five federal land management agencies and some state wildland agencies. Ready access to fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, Bourgeau-Chavez, Michalek
From the Summary (p.420) ... '1. Fires result in dramatic changes in wide range of surface characteristics, including changes in surface reflectance, temperature, and moisture. These changes result in alterations to the signatures detected in all wavelength regions of the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shugart, Clark, Hill
From the Conclusion (p.402) ... 'Models provide the ability to simulate processes that occur at temporal and spatial scales that are difficult to empirically investigate. We have attempted to provide the framework of a set of nested models that can address multilevel boreal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Martell, Flannigan, Wang
From the Introduction (p.357) ... 'Fire is a significant component of most boreal forest ecosystems. It is important to understand its occurrence and spread to assess the potential impact of global climate change on boreal forest ecosystems. This chapter presents an overview of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the Introduction (p.347) ... 'It is important to remember that except over very small spatial and temporal scales, it is impossible to directly measure the carbon present in a specific region of the boreal forest as well as that being exchanged with the atmosphere. In…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Harrell
From the Summary (p.343-344) ... 'Radar imagery is an important source of data for monitoring specific processes and surface characteristics in boreal forests. As with other sources of remotely sensed data, radar imagery can efficiently provide certain types of information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahern, Epp, Cahoon, French, Kasischke, Michalek
From the Summary (p.328) ... 'In this chapter, we have discussed a number of methods to monitor the boreal forest by using satellite systems that collect data from the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Although we have focused our attention on data…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Mudd, Stocks, Kasischke, Barry, Alexander, French
From the Introduction (p.274) ... 'There is currently a great deal of interest in understanding and quantifying the extent of natural and human-caused fire in the different biomes throughout the world. In Chapter 8, Shvidenko and Nilsson examined the fire statistics for the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Mudd, French
From the Summary (p.272) ... 'The data sets presented in this chapter provide the basis for developing a better understanding of the dynamics of the carbon budget in the North American boreal forest region. For example, in Chapter 23 these data are used by Kasischke and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexeyev, Birdsey, Stakanov, Korotkov
From the Conclusions (p.255) ... 'There is a great deal of variability in carbon storage of Asia Russian, depending on the geographic region, forest type, and history of disturbance. These factors affect the forest composition and stand age structure, both strong determinants of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the text (p.238) ... 'The data sets and collection techniques discussed in this section play a central role in efforts to quantify the effects of fire and climate change on the boreal forest carbon budget. These data sets/techniques provide the baseline information required…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, O'Neill, Richter, Bourgeau-Chavez, Harrell
The cold climate and resulting low decomposition rates in the ground layers of boreal forests (such as those found in interior Alaska) result in the development of deep organic soils. In turn, these soils have an important role in many physical, chemical, and biological…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richter, O'Neill, Kasischke
From the Conclusions (p.212) ... 'The evaluation of the fire stimulation hypothesis leads to several conclusions. First, the dynamics of C in soils and ecosystems of the boreal zone are clearly important to the global C cycle. Second, although organic matter's decomposition is…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke
From the Introduction (p.104) ... 'The focus of this introduction to Section II is on describing the boreal forest ecosystem in terms of those factors and processes controlling carbon cycling. Such a systems approach is not new, and similar approaches have been used to study…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer, Stocks
From the Conclusions (p.63) ... 'The causes and impacts of fire in the boreal Eurasian region are multifaceted due to its rich cultural diversity and a broad range of socioeconomic and environmental conditions. Thus, it is impossible to draw any generalized conclusion or develop…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the text (p.3) ... 'The purpose of this book is to present an overview of our current understanding on the interrelationship between fire, climate, and carbon cycling in boreal forest. The chapters are organized into four sections. The chapters in the first section are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
From the text ... 'It should be clear to everyone concerned that weather conditions and the availability of fuel largely control the behavior of fires. Since projections of actual fire growth depend on weather forecasts, and the weather beyond three to five days is highly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln
Prescribed burning has, in the past decade, become the focus of debate among policy makers, federal and private land managers, and the public. To manage fire effectively, the USDA Forest Service has formally recognized the need for economic analysis. It is stated in the Federal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peltzer, Bast, Wilson, Gerry
We determined the abundance and diversity of vascular plants in seven types of disturbance in mixed-wood boreal forest. Disturbance treatments included wildfire, natural regeneration after harvest and several methods of silvicultural site preparation. Relative to undisturbed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klenner, Kurz, Beukema
We present the results of a study to examine the effects of management actions and natural disturbances in influencing the evolution of habitat patterns on forested lands. TELSA, a spatially explicit vegetation succession model with the ability to apply user-defined management…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landres, Brunson, Merigliano, Sydoriak, Morton
This paper summarizes a dialogue session that focused on two concepts that strongly influence nearly all wilderness management: wildness and naturalness. The origin and value of these concepts are discussed, as well as the dilemma and irony that arises when wilderness managers…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boudreault, Gauthier, Bergeron
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harden, Trumbore, Stocks, Hirsch, Gower, O'Neill, Kasischke
To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long‐term averages for C exchange in boreal forests near Thompson, Manitoba. Soil drainage as defined by water table, moss cover, and permafrost dynamics, is the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS