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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Influence of smoke exposure on soil enzyme activities and nitrification

Li, Fredrickson, Ligotke, Van Voris, Rogers
Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of rabbit grazing and fire on a subalpine environment II. Tree vegetation

Wimbush, Forrester
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Age structure analysis of a virgin white pine, Pinus strobus, population

Holla, Knowles
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The influence of dominant shrubs, fire, and time since fire on soil seed banks in mixed chaparral

Zammit, Zedler
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Standards of naturalness: The national parks management challenge

Bonnicksen
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Canada Bonito, New Mexico

Mohlenbrock
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bryogeography and the bryophytic characterization of biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia, Canada

Schofield
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modifications dans le systeme photosynthetique de repousses apparaissant apres feu de deux especes ligneuses dominantes des garrigues mediterraneennes

Trabaud, Methy
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dynamics of resprouting in the lignotuberous shrub banksia oblongifolia

Zammit
The resprouting response of different sized Banksia oblongifolia lignotubers (genets) was followed in two field experiments. In thefirst, the density and speed of resprouting, and the growth in length of the leading shoot from each lignotuber in response to fire and to the time…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reconstructing fire behaviour and effects in a subalpine forest

Fryer, Johnson
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Population ecology and conservation of tortoises: the effects of disturbance

Hailey, Wright, Steer
Population characteristics of sympatric Testudo hermanni and T graeca were compared at four sites in northern Greece; Alyki, Epanomi, Keramoti and Lagos. These had different habitats and levels of human disturbance. The density of tortoises larger than 10cm was similar at all…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Regrowth of forest understory species following seasonal burning

Flinn, Wein
Small experimental plots in mixed-wood stands of the Acadian Forest were burned in the spring, summer, and autumn to obtain an estimate of the regrowth potential of common forest understory species. The number of stems was measured before burning and then monthly for 5 months…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest visual quality management and research

Hull
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Challenge address: fire in wilderness and park management

Jolly
The challenge for resource managers is to understand and appreciate the wilderness resource. We must embrace a philosophy that allows natural fire to play its natural role, within social and political realities. As we alter the natural processes, we alter the very essence of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Moose range under presettlement fire cycles and forest management regimes in the boreal forest of western Canada

Telfer
[no description entered]
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soil temperature and water beneath a surface fire

Campbell, Jungbauer, Bristow, Hungerford
We report here the results of laboratory and computer simulations designed to supply information on soil temperatures under forest and range fires. Measurements of temperature and water content in a soil column that was heated strongly at the surface showed a consistent pattern…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Clear-cutting before burning prevents establishment of the fire-adapted Agonum quadripunctatum (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

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

The relative importance of fuels and weather on fire behavior in subalpine forests

Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kilowatts per metre) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's 1972 and Van Wagner's 1977 fire models with fuel data from 47 upland subalpine conifer stands (comprising Pinus contorta var. latifolia, Picea engelmannii, Abies lasiocarpa…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Management of pinyon-juniper woodlands

Evans
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Control of phragmites or common reed

Cross, Fleming
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The relative sensitivity of two bunchgrass species to fire

Robberecht, Defossé
The response of two bunchgrass species, Festuca idahoensis and Agropyron spicatum, to fire was examined under three levels of fire severity. The fire treatment was applied with an instrument system that allowed precise control over the intensity and duration of fire, and full…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Soil temperature and water content beneath a surface fire

Campbell, Jungbauer, Bristow, Hungerford
We report here the results of laboratory and computer simulations designed to supply information on soil temperatures under forest and range fires. Measurements of temperature and water content in a soil column that was heated strongly at the surface showed a consistent pattern…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire research and the global village

Weber
International fire research activities, priorities, constraints and opportunities are examined from a late 20th century vantage point. Recent accomplishments in computer technology are identified as the single most important phenomenon responsible for the advancement of the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

The need for consideration of fire behavior and effects in prescribed burning

Johnson, Miyanishi
Prescribed burns are increasingly being used in ecological restoration and vegetation management. Despite the accumulation of scientific information on fire behavior and fire effects, however, in many cases fires are prescribed without consideration of such information and often…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Emission factors for particles from prescribed fires by region in the United States

Ward, Hardy, Sandberg
Emission factors and the size distribution for smoke particles from prescribed fire are described from data collected by airborne sampling, surface sampling using towers, and combustion hood systems. Emission factors for particulate matter (g/kg) range from 4 to 16 for particles…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS