Appendix C: Selected bibliography on climate change
The following is a bibliography of climate change publications pertaining to fire regimes in the
Alaskan and Canadian boreal forest and treeline communities as of 2013.
Alaska Fire Science Consortium. (2012). Research summary: Alaska climate change adaptation
series--wildfires, (Online). In: Library--Newsletters, fact sheets and summaries. Fairbanks, AK:
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http://www.frames.gov/files/7913/4764/4448/CES_Wildfire_and_Climate_Summary.pdf (2012,
November 2).
Anzinger, Dawn; Radosevich, Steven R. 2008. Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the
Northwest Coastal bioregion. In: Zouhar, Kristin; Smith, Jane Kapler; Sutherland, Steve; Brooks,
Matthew L., eds. Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants. Gen. Tech.
Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky
Mountain Research Station: 197-224.
Arseneault, Dominique; Payette, Serge. 1997. Landscape change following deforestation at the
Arctic tree line in Quebec, Canada. Ecology. 78(3): 693-706.
Asselin, Hugo; Payette, Serge. 2005. Late Holocene deforestation of a tree line site: estimation of
pre-fire vegetation composition and black spruce cover using soil charcoal. Ecography. 28(6):
801-805.
Bachelet, D.; Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R.; Drapek, R.; Kittel, T. 2005. Simulating the response of
natural ecosystems and their fire regimes to climatic variability in Alaska. Canadian Journal of
Forest Research. 35(9): 2244-2257.
Barrett, Carolyn M.; Kelly, Ryan; Higuera, Philip E.; Hu, Feng Sheng. 2013. Climatic and land
cover influences on the spatiotemporal dynamics of Holocene boreal fire regimes. Ecology.
94(2): 389-402.
Beck, Pieter S. A.; Goetz, Scott J.; Mack, Michelle C.; Alexander, Heather D.; Jin, Yufang;
Randerson, James T.; Loranty, M. M. 2011. The impacts and implications of an intensifying fire
regime on Alaskan boreal forest composition and albedo. Global Change Biology. 17(9): 28532866.
Brown, Carissa D. 2010. Tree-line dynamics: adding fire to climate change prediction. Arctic.
63(4): 488-492.
Brubaker, Linda B.; Higuera, Philip E.; Rupp, T. Scott; Olson, Mark A.; Anderson, Patricia M.;
Hu, Feng Sheng. 2009. Linking sediment-charcoal records and ecological modeling to
understand causes of fire-regime change in boreal forests. Ecology. 90(7): 1788-1801.
Calef, Monika P.; McGuire, A. David; Epstein, Howard E.; Rupp, T. Scott; Shugart, Herman H.
2005. Analysis of vegetation distribution in interior Alaska and sensitivity to climate change
using a logistic regression approach. Journal of Biogeography. 32: 863-878.
Chapin, F. S., III; McGuire, A. D.; Randerson, J.; Pielke, R., Sr.; Baldocchi, D.; Hobbie, S. E.;
Roulet, N.; Eugster, W.; Kasischke, E.; Rastetter, E. B.; Zimov, S. A.; Running, S. W. 2000.
Arctic and boreal ecosystems of western North America as components of the climate system.
Global Change Biology. 6(Supplement 1): 211-223.
Chapin, F. Stuart, III; Shaver, Gaius R.; Giblin, Anne E.; Nadelhoffer, Knute J.; Laundre, James
A. 1995. Responses of arctic tundra to experimental and observed changes in climate. Ecology.
76: 694-711.
Chapin, F. Stuart, III; Starfield, Anthony M. 1997. Time lags and novel ecosystems in response
to transient climatic change in Arctic Alaska. Climatic Change. 35(4): 449-461.
Cronan, James; McKenzie, Donald; Olson, Diana. (2012). Fire regimes of the Alaska boreal
forest. Draft manuscript. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station. 124 p. In cooperation with: Seattle, WA: University of Washington,
School of Forest Resources; New Haven, CT: Yale School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies; Moscow, ID: University of Idaho; Fairbanks, AK: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service. Available online:
http://www.frames.gov/documents/alaska/fire_history/fire_regimes_alaskan_boreal_forest_draft
_gtr.zip (2012, September 4).
de Groot, W. J.; Wein, Ross W. 1999. Betula glandulosa Michx. response to burning and postfire
growth temperature and implications of climate change. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
9(1): 51-64.
de Lafontaine, Guillaume; Payette, Serge. 2011. Shifting zonal patterns of the southern boreal
forest in eastern Canada associated with changing fire regime during the Holocene. Quaternary
Science Reviews. 30(7-8): 867-875.
Euskirchen, E. S.; McGuire, A. D.; Chapin, F. S., III; Rupp, T. S. 2010. The changing effects of
Alaska's boreal forests on the climate system. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40(7): 13361346.
Euskirchen, E. S.; McGuire, A. D.; Rupp, T. S.; Chapin, F. S., III; Walsh, J. E. 2009. Projected
changes in atmospheric heating due to changes in fire disturbance and the snow season in the
western Arctic, 2003-2100. Journal of Geophysical Research. 114: G04022.
doi:10.1029/2009JG001095.
Flannigan, Mike; Campbell, Ian; Wotton, Mike; Carcaillet, Christopher; Richard, Pierre;
Bergeron, Yves. 2001. Future fire in Canada's boreal forest: paleoecology results and general
circulation model - regional climate model simulations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
31(5): 854-878.
Flannigan, Mike; Stocks, Brian; Weber, Mike. 2003. Fire regimes and climate change in
Canadian forests. In: Veblen, Thomas T.; Baker, William L.; Montenegro, Gloria; Swetnam,
Thomas W., eds. Fire and climatic change in temperate ecosystems of the western Americas.
Ecological Studies, Vol. 160. New York: Springer: 97-119.
Gamache, Isabelle; Payette, Serge. 2005. Latitudinal response of subarctic tree lines to recent
climate change in eastern Canada. Journal of Biogeography. 32(5): 849-862.
Goetz, Scott J.; Bunn, Andrew G.; Fiske, Gregory J.; Houghton, R. A. 2005. Satellite-observed
photosynthetic trends across boreal North America associated with climate and fire disturbance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(3): 13521-13525.
Higuera, Philip E.; Brubacker, Linda B.; Anderson, Patricia M.; Brown, Thomas A.; Kennedy,
Alison T.; Hu, Feng Sheng. 2008. Frequent fires in ancient shrub tundra: implications of
paleorecords for Arctic environmental change. PLoS ONE. 3(3): e0001744.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001744.
Higuera, Philip Edward. 2006. Late glacial and Holocene fire history in the southcentral Brooks
Range, Alaska: direct and indirect impacts of climatic change on fire regimes. Seattle, WA:
University of Washington. 175 p. Dissertation
Higuera, Philip E.; Brubaker, Linda B.; Anderson, Patricia M.; Hu, Feng Sheng; Brown, Thomas
A. 2009. Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the
south-central Brooks Range, Alaska. Ecological Monographs. 79(2): 201-219.
Hinzman, Larry D.; Bettez, Neil D.; Bolton, W. Robert; Chapin, F. Stuart; Dyurgerov, Mark B.;
Fastie, Chris L.; Griffith, Brad; Hollister, Robert D.; Hope, Allen; Huntington, Henry P.; Jensen,
Anne M.; Jia, Gensou J.; Jorgenson, Torre; and others. 2005. Evidence and implications of recent
climate change in northern Alaska and other Arctic regions. Climatic Change. 72(3): 251-298.
Hu, Feng Sheng; Higuera, Philip E.; Walsh, John E.; Chapman, William L.; Duffy, Paul A.;
Brubaker, Linda B.; Chipman, Melissa L. 2010. Tundra burning in Alaska: linkages to climatic
change and sea ice retreat. Journal of Geophysical Research. 115: G04002.
doi:10.1029/2009JG001270.
Huntington, Henry; Weller, Gunter; Bush, Elizabeth; Callaghan, Terry V.; Kattsov, Vladimir M.;
Nuttall, Mark. 2005. An introduction to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. In: Symon,
Carolyn; Arris, Lelani; Heal, Bill eds. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. New York: Cambridge
University Press: 1-20
Johnstone, Jill F.; Chapin, F. Stuart; Hollingsworth, Teresa N.; Mack, Michelle C.; Romanovsky,
Vladimir; Turetsky, Merritt. 2010. Fire, climate change, and forest resilience in interior Alaska.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40(7): 1302-1312.
Joly, Kyle; Jandt, Randi R.; Klein, David R. 2009. Decrease of lichens in arctic ecosystems: the
role of wildfire, caribou, reindeer, competition and climate in north-western Alaska. Polar
Research. 28(3): 433-442.
Kasischke, Eric S.; Christensen, N. L., Jr.; Stocks, Brian J. 1995. Fire, global warming, and the
carbon balance of boreal forests. Ecological Applications. 5(2): 437-451
Kasischke, Eric S.; Turetsky, Merritt R. 2006. Recent changes in the fire regime across the North
American boreal region--spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska.
Geophysical Research Letters. 33(9): L09703. doi:10.1029/2006GL025677.
Kasischke, Eric S.; Verbyla, David L.; Rupp, T. Scott; McGuire, A. David; Murphy, Karen A.;
Jandt, Randi; Barnes, Jennifer L.; Hoy, Elizabeth E.; Duffy, Paul A.; Calef, Monida; Turetsky,
Merritt R. 2010. Alaska's changing fire regime--implications for the vulnerability of its boreal
forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40(7): 1313-1324.
Kasischke, Eric S.; Williams, David; Barry, Donald. 2002. Analysis of the patterns of large fires
in the boreal forest region of Alaska. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 11(2): 131-144.
Kelly, Ryan; Chipman, Melissa L.; Higuera, Philip E.; Stefanova, Ivanka; Brubaker, Linda B.;
Hu, Feng Sheng. 2013. Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past
10,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(32): 13055-13060.
Landhausser, Simon M.; Wein, Ross W. 1993. Postfire vegetation recovery and tree
establishment at the Arctic treeline: climate-change--vegetation response hypotheses. Journal of
Ecology. 81: 665-672.
Lloyd, Andrea H.; Fastie, Christopher L.; Eisen, Hilary. 2007. Fire and substrate interact to
control the northern range limit of black spruce (Picea mariana) in Alaska. Canadian Journal of
Forest Research. 37(12): 2480-2493.
McGuire, A. David; Chapin, F. S., III; Walsh, John E.; Wirth, Christian. 2006. Integrated
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Payette, Serge; Filion, Louise; Delwaide, Ann. 2008. Spatially explicit fire-climate history of the
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Rupp, T. Scott; Chapin, F. Stuart, III; Starfield, Anthony M. 2000. Response of subarctic
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Rupp, T. Scott; Chapin, F. Stuart, III; Starfield, Anthony M. 2001. Modeling the influence of
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