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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hendrickson
The distribution of individual species and of vegetation types offers clues to the amoral role of fire in the native temperate forests of what are now the 48 contiguous United States. Through the selective process, fire has helped adapt species. Similarly it has played a part in…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen, Rothermel
The intensity of a combustion wave moving through a porous, homogeneous fuel array is an important, but poorly defined, concept of fire behavior. Rothermel [1] suggests the term 'reaction intensity' for the energy-release rate, which is related to the rate of fuel consumption…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hardison
Prevention of apothecial formation in Gloeotinia temulenta (blind seed disease) was studied in a greenhouse by application of 28 systemic adn 26 protectant fungicides over infected seeds of Lolium perenne. For complete or a high degree of apothecial suppression, effective…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Cleve, Viereck, Marion
This paper provides an overview of the environmental setting, rationale, and organization of a multidisciplinary research programme designed to examine the role of salt-affected soils in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain of interior Alaska. The association of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sugai, Schimel
Forest floor samples from early, intermediate and mature successional sites in the taiga of interior Alaska (USA) were exposed to 14C-labelled glucose and two phenolic acids. The results indicate that microbes present in the taiga forest floor metabolize phenolics. At all sites…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On fire. Fire behavior, fuel succession and vegetation response to fire in the Swedish boreal forest
A study was made of the relationship between fire behaviour and vegetation dynamics in the Swedish boreal forest. This paper is based on 4 papers published or submitted for publication elsewhere: the original papers are included in appendices.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer
The scales of spatial patterns of the vascular understorey were examined during postfire succession in the taiga of southeastern Manitoba. Patterns of individual species from analogous burned (5 years old) and old-growth (= 90 years old) communities were revealed using Paired…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Martell, Nixon
Partial copy. Notes (Do Not Cite): The PCH migrates from summer range on the arctic coastal plain of Alaska and Yukon to winter in the forested valleys and plains of north-central Yukon and western Alaska. Lichen biomass in winter range averaged 65 g/m2, mainly Cladina and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rechel
The workshop brought together professionals in the fields of fire, weather, and spatial analysis from the USDA Forest Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service, and universities. The forum enabled the diverse group of professionals to investigate…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Post
From introduction: 'Many of Alaska's estimated 170 million acres of wetlands owe their existence to permafrost. Permafrost, a layer of impermeable, frozen soil below the surface, creates wetlands in seasonally thawed soils. The value of wetlands created by permafrost bas been…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Percival, Noste
Briefly discusses fire-fighting problems in interior Alaska, and describes the successful use there, for water-dropping, of helicopters equipped with special buckets that can be filled from ponds or lakes while the aircraft is hovering. Several sizes of helicopter and bucket…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Bergeron, Camire
The concentrations and contents of organic matter and nutrients in organic deposits on the forest floor were estimated along a 231-yr chronosequence following fire at the southern limit of the boreal forest in eastern Canada. The sampling design was stratified to take into…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Van Cleve
Soil nutrient availability was assessed on unharvested white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) sites, on a recently harvested site and on 14-year-old postharvested sites stratified into four different regeneration types defined by surface soil conditions and colonizing species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Van Cleve
Nutrient content and biomass of aboveground annual production, and nutrient content of total aboveground biomass, of 14-year-old assemblages of plants developing on harvested white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) sites were estimated by vegetation harvesting and compared…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nance, Hobbs, Radke, Ward
Airborne measurements of several gaseous and particulate chemical species were obtained in the emissions from a wildfire that burned in an old black spruce forest in Alaska during the summer of 1990 [Fire A121 in Yukon Flats]. The relative proportions of most of the measured…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Van Cleve
Surface soils on recently deposited alluvium along the Tanana River, Alaska, have an elevated pH and are high in salts such as calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate. With advancing plant succession surface soil chemistry changes, and when the alder - balsam poplar stage is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
[from the text] The general effect of fire on shrubs should always be considered in relation to the ecological potential of a community. In grasslands, shrubs have a difficult time maintaining a dominant position due to competition from healthy grasses, droughts, and occasional…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A collection of papers, including: History of fire in North America (G.F. White; 24 ref.); Fire as an ecological factor in boreal forest ecosystems of Canada (G.W. Scotter; 57 ref.); The significance of forest fires in Mexico (J. Vasquez Soto); Perspective on fire and ecosystems…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seppi
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quade
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noste
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hawkes
The objective of the study was to determine the effect and interaction of peat moisture content and depth, and heat treatment (combinations of heat load and duration) on peat consumption under dependent burning conditions. Three prescribed fires were monitored to determine…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bessie
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES