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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Latham, Rothermel
Fire managers in the Northwestern United States are often confronted by the problem of determining when precipitation might stop an ongoing fire. The possibility that a useful probability for fire-stopping precipitation could be developed from historical weather records was…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wade
Although many resource professionals believe that periodic fire is necessary to the health of fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribed fire exists only because society allows it. Society has given fire managers the authority to determine if, when, and how prescribed burning takes…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan
The 1988 National Fire Danger System implements the Keetch-Byran Drought Index. This indexis output both as an estimator of drought in its own right and is used to modify fire danger calculations to account for deep drying of dead vefetation and duff. A method initializes this…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cobb
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Stocks
Changing climate and land use appear to importantly affect the biosphere by way of impacts on fire regimes. Feedback effects on climate and air quality are likely through emissions of trace gases, aerosols, and particulates that affect radiation budgets, stability of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bishop, Armbruster
We compared the thermoregulatory capabilities of tropical and subarctic bees to determine whether bees from higher latitudes have greater thermoregulatory capabilities. The data indicate that thermoregulatory capability is a function of size and wing loading, and there is no…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kW m[-1]) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's (1972) and Van Wagner's (1977) models, with fuel data from 47 subalpine conifer stands and 35 years of daily weather (moisture contents and windspeeds). Rothermel's intensity equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
We have constructed a model for the transient heating of cones showing that there is a logarithmic relationship between the time (sec) to cone opening (releasing viable seeds) or cone ignition and temperature (°K) in the convective column above a fire. The slope of the curve is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heard
Larvae of the midge Metriocnemus knabi and of the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii feed on decaying invertebrate carcasses inside the water-filled leaves of the purple pitcher plant. I examined the interaction between these two species in natural populations in Gros Morne National Park…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hopkins, Miyanishi
Prescribed burning is being used at Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario to restore an oak savanna community which has been changing into a closed oak woodland due to a past policy of fire suppression and conifer reforestation. Quercus muehlenbergii, a shade-intolerant…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, MacDonald
To determine whether there are persistent differences in fire frequency in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests, we examine dendrochronological and palynological records of fire history. The time since the last fire at 165 stands located in Wood Buffalo National Park (44,807…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tyler, D'Antonio
In circumstances where species vie for limited resources, disturbance can preclude competition by lowering population densities and thereby relieving pressure on resources. For that reason, competition is believed to be unimportant in the establishment of plant seedlings…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jorgenson, Racine, Walters, Osterkamp
Studies from 1994–1998 on the Tanana Flats in central Alaska reveal that permafrost degradation is widespread and rapid, causing large shifts in ecosystems from birch forests to fens and bogs. Fine-grained soils under the birch forest are ice-rich and thaw settlement typically…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ikegami, Okada, Zaizen, Makino, Jensen, Gras, Harjanto
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Community ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi: an advancing interdisciplinary field [literature review]
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arevalo, Fernandez-Palacios, Jimenez, Gil
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hourdequin
The Wilderness Act of 1964 designates wilderness areas as places where natural conditions prevail and humans leave landscapes untrammeled. Managers of wilderness and similarly protected areas have a mandate to maintain wildland fire as a natural ecological process. However,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurth
Crews have evolved in a natural progression of responses to meet needs in the wildland fire community and provide effective large fire support around the nation. They have been expected to perform consistently and effectively in the most challenging fire environments in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gucinski, Furniss, Ziemer, Brookes
Effects of roads in forested ecosystems span direct physical and ecological ones (such as geomorphic and hydrologic effects), indirect and landscape level ones (such as effects on aquatic habitat, terrestrial vertebrates, and biodiversity conservation), and socioeconomic ones (…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Hessl, Peterson
We explored spatial patterns of low-frequency variability in radial tree growth among western North American conifer species and identified predictors of the variability in these patterns. Using 185 sites from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank, each of which contained 10-60…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg, McClaugherty, Virzo De Santo, Johnson
This synthesis paper presents a model for estimating the buildup of soil organic matter in boreal deciduous and coniferous forests. A basic model was developed using data from a well-studied Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest (SWECON site) and based on limit values for…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ringvall, Stahl, Teichmann, Gove, Ducey
Point relascope sampling and transect relascope sampling were recently proposed as methods for the inventory of downed coarse woody debris. By only counting logs with a relascope device, the total length squared (with point relascope sampling) or the total length (with transect…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES