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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cahoon, Stocks, Alexander, Baum, Goldammer
New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission. Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boudreault, Gauthier, Bergeron
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hallett, Walker
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuller
Holocene fossil pollen data of fine temporal and spatial resolution were obtained from two small, closed lake basins in southern Ontario, Canada. Forest development is recorded in the pollen sequences, which document the invasion and expansion of tree populations during the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
We present results from ongoing research into 20th Century fire regimes in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. Fire patterns are represented as digital fire atlases based on archival forest service data. We find that spatial and temporal fire patterns are variable in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Twentieth century fire patterns were analyzed for two large, disparate wilderness areas in the Rocky Mountains. Spatial and temporal patterns of fires were represented as GIS-based digital fire atlases compiled from archival Forest Service data. We find that spatial and temporal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huff, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englin, Boxall, Hauer
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Last, Campbell, Clare, McAndrews
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson
Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and climate change can alter these natural interactions. When disturbances exceed their natural range of variation, the change in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li
To reconstruct a natural fire regime it is necessary to estimate the historical fire cycle when human influence was less evident. This can be accomplished through the construction of a fire-origin map. The dynamic fire regime is a result of interactions among forest ecosystem…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norris
From the text...'In the early decades of the twentieth century, the astronomer Andrew Douglass noted that trees growing in a particular area, which are exposed to the same sequence of wet and dry growing seasons, typically share the same pattern of variation in the width of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baisan, Swetnam
Four centuries of land use history were compared to fire regime characteristics along a use-intensity gradient. Changes in intensity and type of utilization varied directly with changes in fire regime characteristics near population centers, while remote areas showed little…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Perera, Ter-Mikaelian, Martell, Li
With the exponential model, Van Wagner (1978) gave us valuable insight in understanding stand age and forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. He showed that, under certain conditions, the probability distribution of the age of a stand subject to periodic renewal by…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Perera
Natural fire disturbances are known to have had a significant role in boreal forests at the stand and landscape levels. Van Wagner's exponential model gave useful insight into the theoretical dynamics of the forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. His work…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Spatial and temporal variations in fire frequency in the boreal forest of Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) were assessed using forest stand age, fire scar and historical data. I test the hypotheses that (1) fire frequency is higher in jack pine forests and aspen forests than in…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paquin, Coderre
The edaphic macroarthropod communities of three sites representative of the forest succession in the Lake Duparquet region (situated in the southern part of the boreal forest, Abitibi, Quebec, Canada) were studied. A 47-year-old deciduous forest, a 144-year-old mixed forest, and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Hawkes
From the text...'Major forest types include those where aspen, eastern white and red pine stands, and jack pine stands are found either as fire-maintained seral types or exceptionally as climax stands (see table 3-1 for FRES, Kuchler, and SAF cover type designations). This…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
At the request of public and private wildland fire managers who recognized a need to assimilate current fire effects knowledge, we produced this state-of-the-art integrated series of documents relevant to management of ecosystems. The series covers our technical understanding of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hansen, Rotella, Kraska, Brown
Landscapes are often heterogeneous in abiotic factors such as topography, climate, and soil, yet little 15 known about how these factors may influence the spatial distribution of primary productivity. We report estimates of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in 90…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinson, Omi
Historic fire regimes are widely advocated as guides for the reintroduction of natural fire processes into North American wildlands. However, the fire history of most sites is unknown. Current fire regime constructs provide generalized information for some vegetation types, but…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swetnam, Allen
Relatively frequent surface fires recurred for centuries in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests of the Southwest before intensive live stock grazing and active fire suppression by government agencies began. The available evidence suggests that extensive (> 100 ha) stand-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heyerdahl, Lertzman
We characterized historical fire regimes in order to understand their influence on forest structure in dry mixed-conifer forests in the southern interior of British Columbia. In the unroaded Stein River watershed, we sampled fire scarred trees (163) and cored trees for…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS