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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Frear
[Excerpt] The Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is dying, and no one knows why. Even worse, a new generation of trees is not developing. Seedlings are rare in many of these dying stands. The future looks discouraging for this interesting and valuable tree.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Van Cleve, Oliver
Yearly applications of N, P, and K fertilizer for a 6-year period to a young, postfire aspen forest, resulted in substantial increases in tree growth primarily in response to nitrogen. The main effect of N was to increase, by at least a factor of two, the stand leaf area index,…
Year: 1982
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
Stednick, Tripp, McDonald
Stream water samples and soil samples were analyzed to determine the effects of slash burning on soil and water resources in the coastal hemlock-spruce (Tsuga heterophylla, Picea sitchensis) forests of southeastern Alaska. A comparison of water samples from above and below the…
Year: 1982
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
Richardson, Holliday
Fifteen months after an intense forest fire in Manitoba, the fauna of carabid beetles in burnt and unburnt sites was sampled using pitfall traps to detect the indirect effects of fire on carabids caused by habitat change. Traps were installed in burnt and unburnt sites in which…
Year: 1982
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
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
Carroll, Bliss
Open woodland forests dominated by Pinus banksiana occur on sandy soils in northeastern Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan and are generally even-aged and uniform in height. Ordination techniques were used to divide the stands (n = 38) into the following communities: Pinus…
Year: 1982
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
Foote
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Thaw depths and soil temperatures are compared for three adjacent sites in interior Alaska: an unburned stand of black spruce/feathermoss-Cladonia type; an adjacent stand, originally of the same type, burned in 1971; and a fireline between the two in which all of the vegetation…
Year: 1982
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
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
Controls over regeneration of tundra graminoids in a natural and man-disturbed site in arctic Alaska
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES