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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Carlton
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez-Espinosa, Quintana-Ascencio, Ramirez-Marcial, Gaytan-Guzman
We present floristic and structural data on seral plant communities (Old-Field, Grassland, Shrubland, and Early Successional, Mid-Successional, and Mature Forest) resulting from the current land use pattern in the Pinus-Quercus forests in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hoekstra, Allen, Flather
From the text 'We investigated the ecological literature to discover whether concepts and organisms were indeed paired. With this retrospective examination, we hope to raise ecologists' awareness of scale-dependent relationships among organisms and ecological concepts and the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leps, Rejmánek
The idea of successional convergence is reviewed to show that there are at least four groups of factors influencing the apparent or real convergence/divergence of successional seres in an area. They are: (1) the differentiation of young and late successional communities is…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leberg
There are few empirical studies of the effects of human-induced fragmentation and bottlenecks on the genetic structure of field populations. Assessment of these effects is necessary to evaluate the relevance of predictions obtained from simulation and theoretical models to the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
In 1989 a new record was established for the number of fires (1147) and area burned (3.28 million ha) in Manitoba. These fires resulted in the unprecedented evacuation of 24,500 people from 32 different communities and cost over $68 million (CDN) to suppress. The first major…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baker, Egbert, Frazier
Global warming may have many consequences for natural ecosystems, including a change in disturbance regimes. No current model of landscapes subject to disturbance incorporates the effect of climatic change on disturbances on decade to century times scales, or addresses…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richards
Using the best available technology is a key in preventing environmental problems, rather than fixing them later.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
Specification of monthly mean surface weather elements from concurrent fields of 700 mbar monthly mean height anomaly can help the US Forest Service to evaluate the potential for wildland fires. Multiple regression equations, therefore, were derived for anomalies of monthly mean…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurz, Sampson
From the text...'In this paper, we will provide a brief overview of the predictions of climatic change and the current understanding of forest response through changes in growth rates, disturbance regimes, and species composition. We will explore the implications of these…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jean, Bouchard
Historical aerial photographs (from 1946 through 1983) were used to study and describe the nature and extent of changes in wetland vegetation of a section of the St. Lawrence River and to evaluate the relative importance of water level, fire, and vegetational development as…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese, Nichols, Walton
In this paper, several innovations to the firefighting process are summarized. Organizational innovations include the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Initiative, common interagency emergency management procedures, and the National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Bond
The question of which factors limit the occurrence of a plant species to a particular site is addressed by considering 53 cases in which the distribution of pines (Pinus species: Pinaceae) has changed in the last century. We consider expansions of pines in and adjacent to their…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte, Gorte
The USDA Forest Service policy adopted in 1935 calls for fast, aggressive fire suppresssion action. Economic considerations, first voiced in 1916, quieted after 1935, until the 1960's and 1970's. The most common technique proposed is least-cost-plus-loss; the objective is to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manthy
In summary, I am sympathetic with the concerns of fire management over the need for additional training of fire management practitioners, but I reject the suggested solution. The options to a new curriculum have not been adequately considered, and the costs of the employment,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martini
College curriculums in fire management are not producing people who are qualified to do a total fire management job for hiring fire agencies. Most schools are offering only 2-3 credits in fire that are poorly taught and often downgraded in value by the faculty. This creates an…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gemmer
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reduced postfire tree regeneration along a boreal forest - forest-tundra transect in northern Quebec
The large 1950s fires that burned > 5500 km2 of land across a south-to-north climatic gradient in northern Quebec provide an opportunity to evaluate the role of fire in forest-tundra development on a demographic basis. The tree population density before and 30 yr after fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
Federal, state, and local agencies, working through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, have developed a National Interagency Fire Qualification System (NIFQS). NIFQS sets uniform standards for fire suppression work, specifying prerequisite jobs, currency of experience,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to study the effect of cutting, cutting plus burning, and mulching treatments on Kalmia regrowth. Kalmia plants were transplanted into plastic buckets, and the treatments were applied in the greenhouse. After 8 months, the plants receiving…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS