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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Potter, Zerbe
From the Summary (p.697-698) ... 'Given the importance of wildfires in the south-central and southeastern United States, as reflected in the yearly totals of wildfire numbers and hectares burned, there is a need to better understand the potential ramifications of a changed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Flannigan, Wotton, Suffling
The predicted increase in climate warming will have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and landscapes in Canada because of increased temperature, and altered disturbance regimes. Climate change is predicted to be variable within Canada, and to cause considerable weather…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought. A key finding is that…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williamson, Agee
Poster abstract...Riparian vegetation is often assumed to be less flammable than upland vegetation in evaluations of fire hazard in the eastern Cascades and Blue Mountains. However, the complex multi-layered structure and high proportion of fire-sensitive species within riparian…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
Abstract only:..'In the middle of July, 1997, I had the opportunity to present my views on 'Wildfire Management' to the House Agriculture Committee. On my return to Missoula one of my graduate students came running into my office waving a set of new fire management definitions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster, Knight, Franklin
We review and compare well-studied examples of five large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs)--fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and floods--in terms of the physical processes involved, the damage patterns they create in forested landscapes, and the potential impacts…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paine, Tegner, Johnson
All species have evolved in the presence of disturbance, and thus are in a sense matched to the recurrence pattern of the perturbations. Consequently, disturbances within the typical range, even at the extreme of that range as defined by large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs),…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, Weir
Mimicking of natural disturbance for ecosystem management requires an understanding of the disturbance processes and the resulting landscape patterns. Since fire is the major disturbance in the boreal forest, three widely held beliefs about fire behavior and resulting landscape…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knapp
The spatial and temporal occurrence of large grassland fires (>2008 ha) in the Intermountain West was examined for the period 1980 through 1995. Results suggest that these fires are largely predictable through space and time. Of the 360 large fires, 339 occurred within eight…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibold, Nelson, Ripley, Delanoy
Temperatures during prescribed spring burns were monitored for selected mixed prairie plant communities near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In fescue, spear grass, and brome communities the fires peaked quickly at an average maximum temperature of approximately 500oC, then reverted to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gurd, Nudds
In the boreal forest, fires, insect outbreaks, and severe weather are thought to be the main disturbance sources which revert late successional forests to earlier stages. At the landscape scale, these disturbance processes create a habitat mosaic which supports many types of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farris, Neuenschwander, Boudreau
The importance of large fire events in shaping the structure and composition of subalpine forests has recently gained a great deal of attention from resource managers. High elevation forests dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Williams
Increased use of prescribed fire requires an expansion of the current capabilities of decision support systems. In this paper we describe influencing factors that must be included to assess potential fire severity and risk of escape of prescribed fire, capabilities and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alvarado, Sandberg, Pickford
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brose, Van Lear
Effects of seasonal prescribed fires of varying intensities on density, mortality, stem form, height, and height growth of hardwood advance regeneration were investigated. Three mixed-hardwood stands on productive upland sites were cut using a shelterwood technique, each forming…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mock, Bartlein, Anderson
Analyses of more than 40 years of climatic data reveal intriguing spatial variations in climatic patterns for Beringia (North-eastern Siberia and Alaska), aiding the understanding of the hierarchy of climatic controls that operate at different spatial scales within the Arctic. A…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartlein, Anderson, Anderson, Edwards, Mock, Thompson, Webb, Webb, Whitlock
Maps of upper-level and surface winds and of surface temperature and precipitation illustrate the results of a sequence of global paleoclimatic simulations spanning the past 21,000 yr for North America. We review (a) the large-scale features of circulation, temperature, and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
This CD-ROM contains GIF images of four vegetation greenness themes derived from Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for the years 1989 through 1998 and three fire danger themes for 1996 and 1998. CD Only - Not available online.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Finney
A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model’s components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weber, Stocks
The boreal forest is the largest forest region in Canada, occupying approximately 315 million ha. Within this forest region the long-term average annual area burned is 1.3 million ha, with extreme fire years being common, and covering up to 7 million ha in a single fire season.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smyth, Dearden
The regulatory performance standards and monitoring requirements that are used to evaluate reclamation success in nine western North America jurisdictions were reviewed. Ecosystem-based reclamation monitoring, a crucial part of regulatory enforcement and adaptive environmental…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein
We described an effective and inexpensive device for sampling forest floors. It is based on a rechargeable, battery-powered drill that drives a sharpened steel coring tube. The corer is simple to fabricate, is lightweight (3.5 kg) and can be used easily by one person to obtain…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welbourn
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES