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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chapin, Walker, Hobbs, Hooper, Lawton, Sala, Tilman
Changes in the abundance of species - especially those that influence water and nutrient dynamics, trophic interactions, or disturbance regime - affect the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Diversity is also functionally important, both because it increases the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perrings, Walker
The loss of resilience in systems characterised by multiple equilibria is indicated by a discontinuous change in the state of the system, or the transition from one locally stable state corresponding to a particular mix of species to another state corresponding to a different…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Allen
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is currently and historically has been a serious point of contention among a wide variety of people interested in sagebrush (Artemisia)bunchgrass rangelands. Nowhere are these differences more apparent than in the scientific community. Our purpose…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whittle, Duchesne, Needham
Regeneration of plant communities in post-disturbance boreal and sub-boreal ecosystems is discussed with particular reference to current knowledge of buried seeds (soil seed banks) and vegetative propagation, and the importance of the fire regime on plant regeneration. Fire…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pruitt
The conservation of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou, in Manitoba) is discussed. Arboreal and forest floor lichens are major components of caribou diet in the boreal forests (taiga). The major threats to caribou habitat are wild fires and clear felling. Wild fires…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik
Knowledge of lynx (Lynx canadensis) use of burned areas is desirable to anticipate the effects of fire management in the taiga. During 1991 to 1994 we tested whether L. canadensis and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) selectively used post-fire seres during winter in the Alaskan…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roessler
The forests of Tanana River Basin in Interior Alaska have a history of disturbance. Four issues reflecting forest disturbance, important to include in current management strategies for these lands, were researched: (1) disturbance history of the Tanana Valley; (2) Alaska…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rees
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
Plant cover and biomass data were collected on 4 permanent transects on Galena Mountain herd winter range in late summer 1994. Point intercept method was used to determine ground cover; preliminary results showed lichens comprised 39-56% of total ground cover. Point-intercept…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quinlan, Lehnhausen
From introduction: 'During bird surveys in the spring of 1995 Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) were observed in the silt blanket-floodway habitat of the Chena Lakes Flood Control Project (Quinlan and Lehnhausen 1995) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel have…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This paper provides action plans for the following issues with regard to the spruce beetle-impacted forests of southcentral Alaska: 1) fire hazard/fuels buildup; 2) forest resource inventory; 3) reforestation; 4) provide incentives to develop a viable forest industry; 5) protect…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report explains how the potential for fire hazard increases as a result of spruce bark beetle infestations. Changes in cover type and forest structure as a result of bark beetle-induced tree mortality are discussed.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chowns, Gates, Lepine
Semi-open prairie preferred by wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) diminishes as vegetation succession progresses from meadow to shrubland and forest. Prescribed burning has been adopted to renew habitat in the Hook Lake and Mackenzie bison ranges in the Northwest Territories (…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stoffyn-Egli, Potter, Leonard, Pocklington
Combustion of fossil fuel and vegetation produces large quantities of black canbon particles (BCP) which are dispersed by winds over large areas. Once deposited in the sediment, BCP constitute an historic record of anthropogenic activities and wildfires. For BCP to be…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schindler, Curtis, Bayley, Parker, Beaty, Stainton
During 20 years of climatic warming, drought and increased forest firesbetween 1970 and 1990, DOC concentrations declined by 15--25%in lakesof the Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario, allowing increasedpenetration of both UV and photosynthetically-active radiation (PAR…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Thomas, Wein
[Species descriptions for Betula nana and Betula glandulosa, including fire effects.]
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Degrandpré, Bergeron
We investigated the response of boreal understory communities to gap formation in order to evaluate the relationship between community stability and changes in community composition. We described the early changes in understory species composition after gap formation and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Helm
We documented Moose, Alces alces, habitat characteristics relative to boreal forest succession in the Susitna River floodplain, Alaska. Early Shrub and Old Poplar (Populus balsamifera) Forest sites were most important to wintering Moose. Browse availability was the principal…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boivin, Bégin
This study proposes a reconstruction of the past development of a forest stand submitted to long-term variations of snow levels. As of the 19th century, a gradient in tree-growth forms developed in a post-fire shoreline stand on Tombolo Island in Lake Bienville, Quebec. This…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arbatskaya, Vaganov
Dendrochronological methods were used to reconstruct the history of fires and radial increment in trunk growth in pine [Pinus spp. in natural forests] from the region between the Kasa and Dubchesa rivers (59 degrees -61 degrees N). The data obtained were compared with long-term…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duchesne, Tellier
The nutrient (N, P, K, Mg, and Ca) content of the aboveground living non-crop vegetation of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) clear-cut in eastern Ontario was investigated for two years after site preparation, which consisted of prescribed burning under different fire…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Substance must be given to policies that state that fire suppression costs should be proportional to values at risk and that fire should assume a more natural role in manging the landscape. A workshop of Canadian fire experts was convened by the Candian Forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finer, Messier, Degrandpré
Fine-root (diameter 10 mm) standing biomass, length, distribution, production, and decomposition were studied in mixed conifer/broadleaved forest stands 48, 122, and 232 yr after fire on clay soils in the southern boreal forest of Quebec. A combination of ingrowth bags, soil…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS